[Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

This brings back a memory of Mom. They lived in a town just north of
Pittsburgh, and Mom went to college at Penn, which is in Philadelphia.
This meant she was a very long distance from home.  Her solution for the
laundry problem was to put her dirty laundry in a trunk and send them home
to her mother. Postage was low, and she got the fresh landry back very
shortly.

I did all my laundry at school. I well recall getting my white shirts back
(we were a coat and tie dress code institution) with little holes (and
sometimes big holes) where some acid had splattered on the shirt during
chem lab.



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 Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> IT is interesting what we don't/didn't know or get taught "the basics",
> and sometimes the reason why.
>
> Either by admission or by my own deduction, I discovered some unique
> reasons why I never washed clothes, or knew how to do so until I landed at
> college (my mom had to do her family of origin's laundry growing up and she
> wanted to 'spare' her kids). I was the laughing stock of the dorm when I
> needed to ask what to do. In retrospect, there were a few neglectful things
> that happened to me growing up and I think not even telling me how to do my
> laundry when I headed to college may have fallen in that category <gdr>
> As adult who has discerned a number of quirks about myself as having their
> genesis in my growing up years, I am sometimes amazed at what I failed to
> do for my kids because it never occurred to me, or was not done to/for me,
> all the while my kids experienced their peers having a different experience
> then their own in many areas, and as is sometimes just human nature, never
> talked about it until their 'scarred for life' years, post 30.
>
> Lynn
>
> 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: "Roger Stokes" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 12:20 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.
>
>
> On 10/01/2016 16:32, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>
>>> Mine did dishes on a rotating basis until we moved to a house with a
>>> dishwasher. Then I didn't mind it so much. I did make sure, by the time
>>> they were in middle school (11-12-13), that they learned how to cook the
>>> basics (burgers, eggs, pasta, etc.) without setting the kitchen on fire.
>>>
>>
>> I think we owe it to our kids to ensure they have basic survival skills
>> before they leave home.  By that I do not mean how to survive in the wild
>> but cooking such as you describe, how to use the washing machine without
>> ruining clothes, how to sow on buttons, etc.
>>
>> Sam became a fairly good basic cook and Betsy a fairly creative one. Adam
>>> didn't do much with his knowledge until he married a woman who couldn't
>>> cook, and then he became, out of necessity, a pretty decent one. In the
>>> Guard, he and his buddies operated what they referred to as Cafe Wrench.
>>> The food was so good guys from other units came by to eat; they charged
>>> them by the plate.
>>>
>>
>> I assume that they knew how to charge, including something for knowledge
>> and skill as well as the cost of the ingredients.  That is another
>> important aspect of survival skills - not being made use of by others.
>>
>> Prayers for you tomorrow.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>
>