[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Jay Weigel]

My dad was like that about the damn tinsel.....and we had to wind it
carefully around the branches. One year we rebelled and stood there and
started *throwing* it at the tree....I think I was about 13. Oh, he was
furious! We were all sent upstairs, and he finished the job himself. I
think that may have been the last year we had tinsel on the tree.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of the odd things my mother did when we were kids in the 1960s (she
> died Christmas morning in 2010) was to save the tinsel that she hung on the
> tree.  She felt a Christmas Tree wasn't a true tree unless it had tinsel on
> it.  I wonder if, her being a child of the depression, made her save
> things...but tinsel?  That must have been made of gold, not silver.
>
> +++
> Grace & peace,
> jon
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 12/24/14, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > > Jim,
> > >
> > > Your listgiv arrived today. Thanks very much. I loved the card (which
> is
> > > described elsewhere) and will enjoy the cd from St. Bartholomew's
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Joseph Cirou
> > >>
> > >>  About the only thing like that that I had was the crib my father
> > started
> > >>> to
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> There was the story about the Michigan relatives in a Dutch Reform
> > Church
> > >> that had never previously decorated nor set up a creche.
> > >>
> > >> And when their new Pastor decided they needed one and asked for a
> crib,
> > >> the cousins were puzzled but dutifully dismantled (to get through the
> > >> door)
> > >> and re-assembled a corn crib.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Jim Guthrie
> > >>
> > >
> >
>