Reflections 11/16/2020: This is a picture of a waterspout, a tornado over water! It is not the waterspout that almost took me out in Mexico, but sure looks like it! Some years ago I had spent the week of vacation mustering up the courage to parasail off the beautiful beach of Playa del Carmen. Looked like fun, but I never knew when my fear of heights would get the better of me. So I finally corralled enough chutzpah to brave it and bellied up to the bar for my maiden flight. Just as I was about to be strapped into the boat’s harness system, the Mexican guy stopped dead in his tracks, looked anxiously around, spewed out some Spanish profanity, and drove the boat madly to shore! I knew the weather was overcast, but it looked pretty normal to me. We barely touched down on the beach when an enormous waterspout erupted right where I would have been flying high in the sky! A few Hobie Cats, sails outstretched, but not so attuned to the rapid change of weather, were swept up into the wind and launched like limp rags across the newly agitated water! (Sailors were shaken, but survived). I however might not have been so lucky! All those yards of rope would have probably encased me in a strangling cocoon and drowned me deep in the sea! Thank God the guy setting me up was experienced enough to read the signs in the sky! Literally, thank You God! You intervene in unexpected ways! I am glad that when my ignorance, (or even stupidity), set me up for a cataclysmic collision, Your 🎶 “angels watchin’ over me”🎶 step in to protect! This one had a Mexican accent… and a not so angelic vocabulary! (PS… loved the eventual safe flight I did manage to take a day later!)