[Magdalen] No mail...

[Don Boyd]

Having known what I consider to be more than my share of people who enjoy declaring the idiocy of any who disagree (or merely fail to show sufficient enthusiasm in agreement), I wish to demur:  you're no idiot, and there is nothing close to consensus on MM's being the "I" in "In the Garden."

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On Apr 21, 2018 6:53 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don’t know either, but the person who told me that gave the impression that I was an idiot not to have known it. 
>
> > On Apr 21, 2018, at 6:03 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > I'm still not sold on the 'fact' that it's supposed to be MM...  possibly lore? 
> > L 
> > 
> > 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 
> > 
> > "Mercy and compassion are more than personal options. They are the antidotes to that fear and hatred." Mark Singel 
> > 
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------- 
> > From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> 
> > Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 4:35 PM 
> > To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org> 
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] No mail... 
> > 
> >> I didn’t know that.  On the other hand, I have seldom had occasion to sing it, so haven’t studied the words closely.  I just thought, like Grace, that it was someone’s personal expression. 
> >> 
> >> Marion, a pilgrim 
> >> 
> >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10 
> >> 
> >> From: Grace Cangialosi 
> >> Sent: April 21, 2018 5:25 PM 
> >> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org 
> >> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] No mail... 
> >> 
> >> We sang “In the Garden” at a number of funerals when I was pastoring in the mountains. The older folks loved it, and I had no problem with it. I learned it in high school, when I played the organ for the Army chapel. 
> >> 
> >> I am embarrassed to say, however, that it was not until somebody said something a few weeks ago, that I realized it was about/spoken by Mary Magdalen!  I always though of it from a personal point of view. Apparently everyone in the world knew it was MM speaking..... 
> >> 
> >> (And you all know, of course, that it was this song that revealed God’s first name: “Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me...”). 
> >> 
> >> Grace, g,d,&r 
> >> 
> >>> On Apr 21, 2018, at 12:25 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> We are returned from Bermuda and grinning. 
> >>> In the Garden ??? 
> >>> well, she was a very old woman. 
> >>> 
> >>> I have a story about In the Garden. 
> >>> It was removed from the Wellesley hymnal circa 1960 
> >>> because it made the students shriek with laughter. 
> >>> Autre temps. 
> >>> -M, a somewhat old woman 
> >>> 
> >>> PS: I set up filters so the Magdalen mail goes to its own folder. So I can 
> >>> check it or not. Someone else can probably explain this better. 
> >>> 
> >>> PPS: Speaking of Wellesley, Connie Chandler-Ward has died. See legacy.com 
> >>> for more information. 
> >>> 
> >>>> On Saturday, April 21, 2018, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I'm here...not as often as before. My email has become a swamp of unwanted 
> >>>> stuff and it's so wearisome combing through it for those that I want to 
> >>>> read. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Is anyone else watching the Bush funeral on CNN? 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Magnificent church, magnificent music.. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> We have had two grand funerals in South Africa these past two weeks - 
> >>>> Mam'Winnie Madikizela-Mandela last week, and former Cabinet Minister Dr 
> >>>> Zola Skweyiya today. Both emotional in different ways. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I thought that I would feel detached from the First Lady's funeral service, 
> >>>> hoping just to enjoy the music (which I am). 
> >>>> 
> >>>> But it's not like that. I'm feeling a bit thin skinned today for various 
> >>>> reasons known and unknown, but this service is really getting to me. It 
> >>>> feels as though I'm watching the funeral of a world I knew and have taken 
> >>>> for granted, a world in which the President of the USA was a leader, 
> >>>> someone who made a contribution and at least tried to make the world a 
> >>>> safer place 
> >>>>