[Magdalen] All in the family

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.


One of our workshop leaders, Arnie Grayson, God be good to him, used to say
that all the time, for no particular reason.  With his idiosyncratic humor
and the ability to pick out any part that was faltering on that tiny guitar
of his, he was one of a kind.

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 Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jay, when the kids were young and we went out of state, after about 50
> miles into the trip I'd ask out loud, "Did you two remember to take the
> batteries out of the cats?!?"  It quickly became one of our families in
> things.  The kids had to listen to His Bobness whenever we traveled. When
> we went to the grocer, at a given moment I'd say "The sun is not yellow,'
> and they'd scream "IT'S CHICKEN!"
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:19 PM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > My uncle was fond of saying “For those that like that sort of thing,
> > that’s the sort of thing they’d like.”
> >
> > I enjoy that one a lot, too. :) Slightly similar is the fierce chant
> > of protest, "Down with this sort of thing!"
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>