[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I think we also saved it. It wasn't all that hard to do, actually, and it
was just one less thing to buy.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Actually, it was made of lead, and my mother saved it from year to year,
> as well. We had to put it on one strand at a time, from the insides of the
> branches to the tips, and then remove it in reverse, still one strand at a
> time, and put it back in the boxes.
> The tree would be a shimmering wonder, but I could never understand why
> there was so much tinsel, since it made it hard to see the ornaments...
>
> I HATED putting tinsel on the tree!  Haven't done it for at least 40 years!
>
> > On 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
> >>
>