[Magdalen] this morning at the Eucharist

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Jay... Black Watch Plaid is not BLUE AND GREEN, you know in the way it was 
when it became trend... <DGR>

All plaid is beautiful... I think.
Lynn, fabric maven and fabricholic / hoarder

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

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
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:34 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] this morning at the Eucharist

> Black Watch plaid, which became popular during my late high school years,
> put paid to that notion.
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Marion Thompson 
> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> 'Blue and green
>> Should never be seen.'
>>
>> I eventually decided that they can be very nice together and adjusted
>> accordingly.
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>>
>> On 11/20/2015 11:54 AM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>>
>>> Sibyl:   I was told not to wear blue and green together
>>>
>>>
>>> (assuming this was during your growing up years?)  Perhaps that is why 
>>> in
>>> the 70s that color combo became SO IN YOUR FACE in clothes and home dec
>>> stuff... My mom was addicted!  My sister and I still talk about mom's
>>> addiction to that color scheme... I mostly escaped it having left home 
>>> in
>>> '70 for college, but it lingered for decades...
>>>
>>> L
>>>
>>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>>
>>> 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
>>> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a 
>>> talk
>>> by Richard Rohr
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Sibyl Smirl" <polycarpa3 at ckt.net>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 8:56 AM
>>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] this morning at the Eucharist
>>>
>>> And keeping those seams straight was a major big deal.  I don't know
>>>> about the "certain reputation", but apparently if your seams weren't
>>>> straight, you got a reputation as a slattern.
>>>>    I was told not to wear blue and green together, but everyone else
>>>> _did_, and I liked the combination, and print fabrics that used both. 
>>>> Years
>>>> later, my own beloved aunt and I were in a cafeteria together, and she
>>>> began to tap on my arm and subtly point and act as if she saw something
>>>> scandalous.  I couldn't figure it out, and later in private when she
>>>> wouldn't have to whisper, turned out she was trying to indicate a young
>>>> woman wearing a green shirt with blue jeans (which I'd always figured 
>>>> was
>>>> an exception anyway -- blue jeans went with practically anything 
>>>> above).
>>>> My aunt's behavior implied that certain reputation, indicated by what 
>>>> the
>>>> woman was wearing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/20/15 8:00 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> LOL, Esther!
>>>>> I remember wanting to wear seamless stockings, but my mother said 
>>>>> those
>>>>> were for women of a certain reputation...
>>>>> So was shaving your legs, until she found out that her beloved aunt
>>>>> shaved hers! After that, it was OK.  I was in 10th grade.
>>>>>
>>>>> On November 20, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Esther Williamson <momohl1 at cox.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You and me both, Grace! And - I wore stockings with seams up the back.
>>>>>
>>>>> Esther
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/19/2015 8:52 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, I am old enough to have worn them, and I am glad those days are
>>>>>> past...!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Nov 19, 2015, at 7:41 PM, Roger Stokes <
>>>>>>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 19/11/2015 22:03, Jon Egger wrote:
>>>>>>>> I was deaconing a service with an unnamed priest.  At the start of
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> Sursum Corda: "Lift up your hips..."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am old enough to recall the days when ladies wore roll-on girdles
>>>>>>> which provided some support.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roger
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sibyl Smirl
>>>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>>>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>