Saturday/Sunday

Yesterday Saturday, Bruce and Rosalyn invited me to lunch and we went to the China Buffet, a restaurant I used to frequent with Pattisue.   It is very nice there, with a big buffet choice, and I appreciated them inviting me.

 

Today, Sunday, I went to Emmanuel, first of all to Fr Bill's adult Sunday School.  It is extraordinary because I am not all that riveted by his sermons but his classes are absolutely excellent, and practically with standing room only.

 

It was the Annual Parish Meeting with lunch after the 10.30 Service,  the church provided the brisket and the pulled pork, and people took side dishes and dessert.   I knocked up a pear and chocolate trifle.

 

The rest of the weekend I spent watching television and knitting.  The whole weekend's television has been about a caucus - whatever that is - and all broadcast from Iowa.  I can't quite figure it out.  It's not an Election, but the Presidential candidates are all fired up, and  the talk is about the winners and losers.  I think they are trying to pick the Republican candidate for the next election in November, and this is the first stage in the process.

 

Donald Trump, and other candidates, are all talking about "Making America Great Again".   But ever since I've been here - for the last eight years - almost every day, somebody on tv has said how great, how wonderful, how generous, how this is the best country on the planet;  so I am confused and wondering just when it stopped being great, so that it now needs the likes of Donald Trump to make it great again.   

 

I've noticed too that religion plays a big part in politics here, something else which confuses me.  Do we even know - or care - what religion our MP is???   But here it is all important.   Ted Cruz is said to be going after the 'Evangelical' vote.  

 

I think most of the candidates have pretty sound religious credentials, but Donald Trump - not to be outdone - has been showing everybody the Bible his mother gave him, with his name and address she'd carefully written in the front.    How ridiculous is that.