GREAT RED DRAGONfly

Whew. I've typed my handwritten Japanese memoirs into 112 pages of digital text, and I'm tired. They'd been written in pencil on inexpensive notebook paper about 45 years ago, with the hope much of it would fade away, but most of it lasted, altho' now I have to strain a bit to read it. But I'm going follow the example of our first century church leaders, and "come aside and rest awhile," okay? (I almost wrote: "come apart and rest awhile"!)

I happened to find this picture among my things. It was sketched in 2023 when I was looking at the pond and saw a Brilliant Goldfish looking at a branch poking up from the water. A Strong-looking Turtle swimming nearby happened to be examining the same stick too, so when he turned his head to the side, the two were staring at each other. I saw them glaring at each other, neither refusing to turn away or back down. oh-oh.

After a while, it looked like we were going to have a fight to see who was the King of the Pond. A bright crimson dragonfly alit at the top of the branch above the water, looking almost like he would referee the fight. Just then, it started to rain, and everything melted away. It actually looked to me that's what they all wanted.

The name of the "referee?" I happen to be memorizing in Rev. 12, and the Great Red Dragon appears there. Poetic License. I told you I'm taking a break. This happens when my mind is kind of relaxed.

But it does get me upset that people call little insects that have wings and long tails "dragonflies", and because you can detect them in a short bandwidth of electromagnetic waves, they call them "reality"; whereas if you believe in Creation, Adam and Eve, Angels and "Great Red Dragons", things that may actually exist but human eyes can't detect them, people then look at you cross-eyed and say you believe in "fairy tales".