I enjoy being able to touch several people over the course of one day. The 4th Tuesday of the month is one of those times. Woke up to a distressing phone call from my daughter's Boss, the principal. Danielle is on her way to the ER, Weather was bad, School got a late start, she fell in the parking lot, hit her head, unconscious in the ambulance. So needless to say, since I am the Emergency contact, I had to keep the cell ringer on yesterday and take care of family. It ended up being as strange as the movie "snow day".
At 10 am its coffee chat with the Masonic Pathway residents, we never have coffee, but its a cute name. I was able to present a picture during the visit. The story goes: Out at Tokar's hunting camp between Newberry and Manistque, there was a long framed picture on the camp wall. It had several pictures of guys with deer in it, and were were going swap out the picture for more recent ones. While removing the pictures, behind them was a panoramic picture of the Masonic home on May 24, 1932. The Grand Lodge Officers and delegation, along with three orphans are in the picture out in front of the current Masonic Home. The Home would have been in operation about a year when it was taken. I was visiting McMillan Lodge 400 a couple weeks, and WB Travis Freeman presented me with the picture with instructions to bring it back home. I did, and so after I presented the picture and as the day progressed, CEO Cindy came down to the Conference room and said WB Don Pray was identifying more people in the picture, including Lou B.Winsor and Grand Master Albert J. Young of Delta Lodge 195 in Escanaba. They will be hanging the portrait in "Memory Lane" for all to enjoy.
At the investment committee meeting we had our Clearbrook representative discuss where we are at in the Market, and explain several nuances of investment strategies. I am grateful to have proactive men working for the future of the fraternity. We also heard a presentation from Joppa Lodge on the proposed purchase of a home for their Lodge. And I gave them a little homework to take care of as part of the work they are trying to accomplish.
The last meeting of the day is the Grand Lodge Board of Directors meeting, where we deliberated contracts, resolutions and discussed new initiatives and plans to move the fraternity in a positive direction. Before I left to head North, I stopped in to visit with our Masonic Pathways CEO, Cindy Bosley. She was just finishing up a "code blue" and I may have startled her with my news, but wished her a happy Thanksgiving and was on my way North. It was a terrible drive, wet, snow and ice on the roads, bad accidents on two occasions. I'm glad I made it home safely, and I acknowledge divinity by my side on the trip.
