NO, I DIDN'T DIE, I'M STILL HERE

I can not believe it has been so long since I posted on this blog. I suppose I have been venting my political frustrations on FB (Mac McFatter). I do know I seem to spend too much time online and not enough actually accomplishing something useful.
Mary and I have been having a lot of fun lately doing demonstrations and teaching fiber spinning to others. We have helped shear alpacas at our friends alpaca farms (Fairhope Alpacas and HummingStar Alpacas) 3 or 4 times. Tomorrow, 4/01/12, we have a demonstration for "Old Time Days" in Lucedale, MS. We have also attended the January Spin-In in Destin, Fl for the last 4 years.
I was able to go on a week long medical mission trip to Panajachel, Guatemala last June with a group from Killearn UMC in Tallahassee. It was a God moment in my life and I have a lot of memories to keep my mind and thoughts busy for the rest of my life.
Spinning, knitting, working part time, and church activities keep us old folk busy and mostly out of trouble.
May everyone who ever happens to read this have a blessed day knowing that God loves you and His Holy Spirit is with you at this moment.
Charlie Mac

Nowhere anyone would want to be! Really?

Someone on a Yahoo List I belong to, shared that they lived in a town that was "nowhere close to anywhere anyone would like to be".

I thought how sad that some people can not enjoy where they are. This person lives in a city with a lot of history going back hundreds of years. I know of at least two historic cemeteries where one could spend a day in each to visit the graves of heroes of American history. There is a historic district with many older homes which have been converted into businesses and offices and a stroll down these streets are
walks through history.

This city is home to several museums. Admission is free to most of them although donations are gladly accepted. An aviation museum rivals the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and there is another less than two hours away at an Air Force Base. There is a light house and two old forts dating back to the 1800's.

There are coffee houses, night clubs, fine restaurants, family restaurants, neighborhood restaurants, ethnic restaurants, chain restaurants, and naturally all the fast food places you can name. A person can purchase fresh seafood which spent the previous night swimming in the Gulf of Mexico to prepare your self or at any one of several local seafood restaurants. There is a cooperative health food store which in my opinion is second to none for hundreds of miles.

There are two large hospitals with fine reputations for treating a multitude of ailments. There are several institutions of higher learning with outstanding credentials. There are craft guilds, clubs and organizations for every hobby I can think of. White sand beaches are a very short drive away where a person can search for sea shells, walk on the beach, sun bathe, or swim pretty much year round.

I wonder if the place this person came from was also a nowhere, nothing to do kind of place like Pensacola? I'll just wager it is.

How much better our world would be if each one of us would enjoy what we have and where we are. Right now I am thinking of a man who lives by choice in Anapra Colonia, a slum of Juarez, Mexico, because he has chosen to make a difference among people who truly are "nowhere close to anywhere anyone would like to be". May God bless Fernando Maldonado this day.
Mac