[Magdalen] 2020

[cady soukup]

Happy Leap Year Birthday Allan!

May you continue to find enjoyable moments in the midst of the tangled
web that is living. May blessings find you and Camille this year,
however unexpected or small they may be.

I am both TV- and movie-impaired - the bulk of them are no longer
compelling to watch, so I read instead. Recent books that have have
enjoyed include

"To Speak for the Trees" by Diana Beresford-Kroeger - a meditation on
a life of living, researching, and working with trees and their
communities.

"The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History
in the Old South" by Michael W. Twitty - still reading this one -
amazing breadth & depth of old ways of life, history, and cooking, and
how it all works together).

"Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered,
Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior" by Bart Ehrman - an
examination of how personal and cultural memory works and how it
intersects with story/history.

Yes, I tend to read more than one book at a time.

May the Epiphany season be kind to us all, there is quite enough going
on in the public sector to need large doses of kindnesses given and
received just to make it through each day!

hugs anyway - Cady


On 1/4/20, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Blessings to you on your birthday, Allan.
>
> Ginga Wilder
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 3:47 PM Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Happy Birthday, Alan.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 12:33 PM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Happy Birthday, Allan. Binge watching is one of my secret vices. My
>> > last
>> > one was the one about the 1916 Easter Rising, "Rebellion" on my Apple
>> > TV.
>> > That was *after* I finished season 4 of "The Man in the High Castle"
>> which
>> > was a wowser! There is a sequel to "Rebellion" but I tried it and
>> > didn't
>> > find it as compelling. I would say "God grant you many years" as we do
>> > in
>> > the Orthodox Church, but I don't know how you'd feel about that. As
>> > many
>> as
>> > find you able to get about and be yourself, I guess! God's blessings on
>> you
>> > and Camille.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 7:54 AM Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Belated Happy Birthday, Allan.
>> > >
>> > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 1:54 AM Allan Carr via Magdalen <
>> > > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hmmm. A leap year and hence an election year. Time to have another
>> war?
>> > > Of
>> > > > course.
>> > > > Incidentally, yesterday I became 89. I don’t think there’s any
>> > > correlation.
>> > > > Last night I binge watched a full season of The Messiah while tied
>> > > > to
>> > my
>> > > > PD machine. Getting a TV in my bedroom might not have been such a
>> good
>> > > > idea. But, I enjoyed it. Now for season 2, whenever that is.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Allan Carr
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > >
>> > > Christopher Hart
>> > >
>> > > List Mail Address: cervus51 at gmail.com
>> > > Personal Mail: cervus at veritasliberat.net
>> > > Twitter: @cervus51
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
>> Western Michigan
>>
>