[Magdalen] Fwd: Our kind

[Grace Cangialosi]

And don’t forget that Deb died shortly after their reconciliation.

> On Dec 12, 2017, at 9:15 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That is certainly a great album, and I can't remember the title either.
> Unfortunately, the group sort of self-destructed when the other member (I'm
> deliberately not naming names, so please don't try to help me,
> sharpshooters) emailed Deb to say she wasn't going to be in the group
> anymore. I remember how devastated Deb was when that happened. The
> recordings were withdrawn at that time. Later on, there was some kind of
> resolution or atonement, and the two were speaking again and the recordings
> done were again available. It's hard to imagine how many more would have
> been done, had they kept working together. Be that as it may, what they
> produced was a cut or two or five or ten above most everything else out
> there. I'ts great that we have what we have!
> 
> 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, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for this reminder, Mike! I love that whole album. I’m really sorry
>> MO only put out two albums—that one and another, the name of which I can’t
>> remember. (Maybe “God Help Us”?) It has a spectacular version of “Breathe
>> on Me, Breath of God,” with some extraordinary scat singing by Deb Bly; and
>> Calvin Hampton’s setting of “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy.”
>> 
>>> On Dec 11, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ain't no Advent hymn better than "The Stable Lamp is Lighted" as sung by
>>> Ana Herndadez on "Keeping the Baby Awake", the CD by the Miserable
>>> Offenders!
>>> 
>>> And it's not only the stones that cry when I listen to it.
>>> 
>>> Mike M.
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I always loved Advent best of all the seasons of the church year, and
>> even
>>>> though the Orthodox church doesn't have Advent per se, I'm celebrating
>> it
>>>> anyway. BTW, the Swedish church has some of the BEST Advent songs, not
>> only
>>>> the one we stole from them (Prepare the Royal Highway), but this one:
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSiV0StQU4&index=1&list=RDYJSiV0StQU4
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 2:47 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Just happens to be close to the same time I'm observing the season
>> of
>>>>> Advent, preparing to celebrate the Feast of the Incarnation.<<<
>>>>> 
>>>>> I like to remind those generally piss-offable in that regard, that
>>>>> Christ's-mass doesn't begin until sundown on the 24th.  Until then,
>> it's
>>>> a
>>>>> time of penitence and introspection.
>>>>> 
>>>>> "But it's the Christmas season!"
>>>>> "Nope, not yet.  And you better toss out your chocolate calendar lest
>> you
>>>>> have even more to atone for."
>>>>> "You're just being a Scrooge!"
>>>>> "At least he knew his calendar."
>>>>> 
>>>>> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>>>>> 
>>>>> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
>>>>> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>