[Magdalen] Scott Walker!!

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Well there was a time when we had a bush a dick and a colin running the country...
just sayin'
Lynn

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On Sep 21, 2015, at 5:25 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

Hmm. Dick Cheney,  then the Koch brothers.  Just a coincidence, you
say????
Albert and I went the the funeral of Our friend Dan Levins in Brooklyn Friday. It was held at our former parish, Christ Church Bay Ridge with interment at Resurrection Cemetery on Staten Island.

Dan was a Dancer -- formerly with American Ballet Theater (some of his performances  from the 1970s are on YouTube); in later years he taught dance in Manhattan. But in one of those quintessential New York City "Odd Couple" his partner for 20 years (and married for four years) was formerly a NYC Firemen, Gene had a stroke about 10 years ago and has been in a wheelchair since.

The funeral was a great NYC mix of people -- a few from the parish, but lots of Dancers, ex Dancers, Ballerinas and retired ballerinas, but also a phalanx of NY Police and Firemen, complete with a bagpiper from the Emerald Society. Genes brothers and relatives were all there (as were Dan); the four brothers are firefighters or cops -- a traditional NYC Irish family, though no priest AFAIK.

Dan has specified some aspects -- he wanted lots of incense. And by the vagaries of work schedules and the like, we ended up with a Lutheran Pastor as Thurifer (is Lutheran Thurifer an oxymoron?).

The casket was open at the the beginning of the service, as the wake had been in the church.

The Casket was well censed, at the beginning -- but later when it was time to close the casket (after the sermon), it was censed again, and per Dan's Instruction, there was plenty of smoke directed into the casket as it was closed. Never saw that before!

Albert and I rode out to the cemetery with the Pastor/Thurifer (we've known him for years), with Albert holding the thurible (keeping the coal lit).

During the interment, the casket was well-censed again, but then another incense innovation (per Dan;swishes), Pastor Miller lowered the thurible into the hole under the bier and censed it thoroughly enough that smoke was coming out the other sides from underneath.

I'm considering revising my funeral instructions.

Prayers for Dan and especially for Gene who will have a difficult time ahead.

Jim Guthrie

Cheers,
Jim

"The enemy isn’t liberalism;
the enemy isn’t conservatism.
The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson 
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 Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> 
>> S/O said he has been cold-Koch'd.
> 
> oh!! is that how you pronounce their name... <GDR>
> 
> .... probably so, and now that they've groomed him from state legislature
> to state governor, wonder what the rest of his life is going to look like?
> Something tells me they only stick with winners (make 'em or break 'em)
> 
> and... how many and who are their next *best*
> 
> Lynn, cynically
> 
> 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
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
>> 
>> Jay, g/d/r
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> September 21, 2015 The New York Times  NYTimes.com »
>>> Breaking News Alert  September 21, 2015
>>> 
>>> BREAKING NEWS
>>> Scott Walker is said to be quitting presidential race
>>> 
>>> 
>>> IMNSHO.... TBTG!!!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>>