[Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

Lynn Ronkainen houstonklr at gmail.com
Thu May 12 20:04:17 UTC 2016


well said James!
Lynn

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single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
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by Richard Rohr

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From: "James Oppenheimer-Crawford" <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 2:53 PM
To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

> Sounds like that young man might have ADD.  Because that is the sort of
> thing I would do, and the false memory can be so convincing.  I keep an
> extra memory and bring it with me most places. It's called an 
> understanding
> and patient wife.
>
>
>
> 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 Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>
>> On 5/9/16 11:36 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>>
>>> Selective Service:  I'll ask his teacher.  You'd think it would have 
>>> been
>>> mentioned by now.  Is Selective Service still a Thing?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I wonder whether you were in the room any of the times I told one of my
>> favorite stories about voting, particularly relevant this election year,
>> and forever relevant to the nature of teen boys.
>>
>> A few years ago I was working Election Boards when a local boy wandered 
>> in
>> expecting to vote for the first time.  No question of ID or voter fraud, 
>> we
>> all knew the kid.  But he wasn't on the voter registration list that came
>> from the County Clerk's office.  He insisted that he had registered,
>> remembered going into town to do it, brought back a "piece of paper" that
>> said he was registered (which he didn't have with him). The head Judge
>> there even phoned the County Clerk's Office, who said he wasn't
>> registered.  He got all hot and bothered, said he was going to go home 
>> and
>> find that paper, and take it into town and wave it in their faces.  A few
>> hours later, his stepmother came by to vote after she got off work, so we
>> asked her whether he'd gotten it straightened out.  She said, "Yeah.  He
>> was registered.  For the draft."
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sibyl Smirl
>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>> 


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