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| Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide' 15 December 2023 |
I really do not believe in fate. In order to waste time in our religion class (really it was about Aristotelian, Thomestic and Augustinian theology) we would ask Brother Edwin Reggio,C.S.C. at St Edward’s High School in Austin, Texas what we thought were dumb questions. One day we asked,"Brother Edwin what is free will?” This was his succinct answer (he knew of our intentions to waste time): "Two cars coming from opposite directions on a sharp curve at a mountain will not see each other until they probably crash. God is above looking at this which is about to happened. He does nothing. That is free will.”
I narrow that down to “coincidence happens more often than not.”
When I opened my jewel box to take out Hilary’s birthday gift yesterday (link to blog below) I saw a little plastic bag with two rings. They were our wedding bands that Rosemary and I had jeweller Jaime Vidal design for us using blue-fired enamel. We stopped wearing them when our fingers began to get bigger.
I tried it and it fit, snuggly, but it did fit. That and the second bloom of Rosemary’s favourite Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’ I believe may be a lovely posthumous Christmas gift from my Rosemary.
Rosemary and her Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide'
At my age of 81, few women will notice the band and
refrain from asking for a date. After all I am married. I feel safe.
Our stupid questions to Brother Edwin were always answered with an incredible content that challenged us. One day we enquired how God's existence could be proven. His answer was unexpected. "Imagine you are bowling. You do one of those terrible splits. Your bowling ball is returned via the runner on one side of the gutter. It goes up a ramp and it hits the bowling balls of your friends.They all move except the last one. That one is Aristotle's unmoved mover - God."
