[Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of downsizing...)

[Lynn Ronkainen]

 "It is well with my
> soul" ?


raising hand and waving here in TX
Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck

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From: "James Oppenheimer-Crawford" <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 10:41 AM
To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of 
downsizing...)

> How many people in the TEC tradition know the hymn,>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is amazing, though, how some of those terms can seem like everybody
>> knows them until you are somewhere else. And then you don't know which
>> words are the ones that will make people look at you like "WHAT did you
>> just say?"
>>
>> I think I had the same experience with hymn tunes. There were the tunes
>> that EVERYBODY knew back home, and in most churches I visited other
>> places near there. But it took a long time to figure out which ones
>> would get a "we've NEVER sung that tune before" reaction from choir and
>> congregation down here.
>>
>> Kristin
>>
>> --
>>   Kristin Rollins
>>   kristin at verumsolum.com
>>   Portsmouth, VA
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 08:49 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Maybe we can go on to various words for
>> couch/davenport/sofa/Chesterfield
>> > > ???? <grin>
>> >
>> > Our Canadian organist/choirmaster in East Cupcake would use terms like
>> > Chesterfield as though everyone everywhere used that term. I remember
>> > a choir party at his house when his wife told one of the tenors she
>> > had picked up a dropped glove of his and put in on the Chesterfield.
>> > He blinked and said, "Quick: name three synonyms for Chesterfield!"
>> > hoping one of them would enlighten him as to where his glove was.
>>