Thank you, Michael, for the “spun gold” reference. As a person who loves numbers, I appreciate knowing that a golden thread is visible at 1/250,00 inch! I will use that fact in my Tai Chi for Arthritis classes, at Chugiak Senior Center and All Life is Yoga, in Alaska, and when I volunteer at my mother’s assisted living home in Idaho next week,to convey my belief that opening the joints just a FRACTION of an INCH makes a difference. We often use the image of a golden threa…Thank you, Michael, for the “spun gold” reference. As a person who loves numbers, I appreciate knowing that a golden thread is visible at 1/250,00 inch! I will use that fact in my Tai Chi for Arthritis classes, at Chugiak Senior Center and All Life is Yoga, in Alaska, and when I volunteer at my mother’s assisted living home in Idaho next week,to convey my belief that opening the joints just a FRACTION of an INCH makes a difference. We often use the image of a golden thread as a model for the spine in right posture, so this is beautifully appropriate.

This morning I am grateful to wake up on a visit to my son and his family in Southern California, where we look at planets and the moon through a telescope in the backyard. Last week, while I accompanied my oldest granddaughter to a special camp back east, there rest of her family camped out to get a wonderful view of the Perseids. Granddaughter and I ended our travels with a visit to Buhl Planetarium in Pittsburgh, and also visits to a constellation of relatives she’d never met, and whom I hadn’t seen in more than 50 years. Awareness of all this “stellar” gratitude is particularly timely today, as it is the anniversary of the Great American Eclipse of 2017, which we enjoyed at my mother’s home in Rigby, Idaho.