[Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.

[Marion Thompson]

An interesting stat to introduce over the /pouce café/.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 1/11/2016 3:11 PM, Jon Egger wrote:
> One thing I learned along the way of life is that Frech Chefs have curves
> folded in.  I believe such Chef Hats have 96 such folds and each one
> represents the number of dishes you can use to make eggs.
>
> YM, as they say, MV.
>
> Grace and peace,
> brud
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I just read an amazing poem posted on someone's FB page... it addresses a
>> bit of the dark side of what parents teach, often when they don't know any
>> better....
>>
>>
>> Knots
>> by Joseph Stroud
>>
>> Trying to tie my shoes, clumsy, not able to work out
>> the logic of it, fumbling, as my father stands there,
>> his anger growing over a son who can’t even do
>> this simplest thing for the first time, can’t even manage
>> the knot to keep his shoes on—You think someone’s
>> going to tie your shoes for you the rest of your life?—
>> No, I answer, forty-five years later, tying my shoe,
>> hands trembling with this memory. My father
>> and all those years of childhood not being able to work out
>> how he loved me, a knot so tight it has taken all my life
>> to untie.
>>
>> "Knots" by Joseph Stroud from Of This World. © Copper Canyon Press, 2009.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lynn, thinking of people who still deal with wounds from childhood, often
>> not knowing why.
>>
>> 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: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 5:52 PM
>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.
>>
>> I, OTOH, was fairly well trained, some of it intentionally and some because
>>> of circumstances. I did my own ironing by the time I was in high school;
>>> also a good share of my brothers' until I rebelled and told my mother they
>>> should learn since they were going to be bachelors anyway because who
>>> would
>>> want to marry them. I could do laundry and did when
>>> I wanted something and it was dirty. I learned to plan meals and cook for
>>> the family when my mom was sick when I was 14. I didn't learn to budget.
>>> And manage a checking account though.
>>> On Sunday, January 10, 2016, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>> <javascript:;>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>