Spotlight on Iowa
They played a major league baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site near Dyersville last night. There was no way that the event could have lived up to last year’s inaugural effort…but they apparently came close.
This year, they added a minor league game to the list of events, as well as ample opportunity for young people to meet ballplayers and engage in activities designed to further interest in baseball.
I continue my boycott of virtually all team sports given how woke they’ve all become–sports wagering being the exception–so I again did not watch the game. But I did see highlight clips and once again Mother Nature–and a dedicated grounds crew–provided a wonderful landscape for a national television audience.
I’m constantly struck by the big city, out-of-towners who marvel at the blue skies, clean air, tremendous sunsets…all the things that we take for granted. Friends who have never traveled here see the spectacle unfold on television and ask me if it all really looks that good.
I tell them no…in reality, it’s better. For all its abilities, even high definition television cannot do it justice.
To have that scene play out from a movie site, on the same day our great Iowa State Fair began…it requires us to sit back and be grateful. That same Mother Nature is fickle–witness extreme drought in northwest Iowa, and worsening conditions in the southern part of the state, and this week marked the two year anniversary of the major derecho–but on the whole, we are indeed fortunate. It’s a good time to pause from all the conflict in the world and remember that.
