It is all one big connected ball of yarn.  A whole bunch of jumbled wires… intertwined and crisscrossing every which way… but loose.  Yes… this universe, this existence of our…. is a interwoven screen door.   I’ll give you an example.  Take today’s date. … this August 28th.

And so it begins……with …. the oldest city in the United States.  It was established on this date. It happened way back in 1565.  And the place?  St. Augustine, Florida.

Now… it was named in honor of Augustine of Hippo…. who is better known as Saint Augustine.  He was an early Christian theologian and philosopher.  Not only that….he was the bishop of Hippo Regius.    This area is now Algeria, Africa…..  His memorial is celebrated on 28 August, the day of his death.  Yeppers…. today’s date.

He is the patron saint of brewers, of barrels, printers, theologians, the alleviation of sore eyes, and a number of cities.  Go to Florida, and you will find this out.

Okay, now here is the kicker.  Same date, August 28th, but in 1837.  While most other pharmacists were tinkering around with cocaine and such…. those brilliant Pharmacists John Wheeley Lea & William Henry Perrins manufactured Worcestershire Sauce. (Mostly out of vinegar, molasses, salt, and tamarind… Tamarind… a tree found in Algeria.  Africa.)

They first concocted the recipe… and didn’t like it so much.  So the stuff sat around in barrels.   About 18 months later…. somebody decided to taste it.  And Viola’.  We have the best dang condiment on the planet.

Now.  Let’s move on to the hippopotamaus.  You know.  Hippo.  Like St. Augustine.  Although hippos might look a little chubby, they can easily outrun a human.  They are regarded as one of the most dangerous animals in Africa…. where they live.  Hippopotamuses have short legs, a huge mouth and a body shaped like a barrel.  Like a barrel.

Resting in water helps keep hippopotamuses temperature down.  Hippopotamuses give birth in water.   But scientists at Cal-Poly recently discovered that the prefer water which smells slightly of Worcestershire Sauce.

This is ALL crazy-go-nuts… isn’t it?  Welllllll….. isn’t it?

Now if you can’t see how that is all wrapped up tight together…. I would say that you should pray to St. Augustine… for clearly you have that sore eye affliction.

“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”
― Albert Schweitzer