[Magdalen] 2020

[Jay Weigel]

I read The Cooking Gene a couple of months ago. A bit dense but
fascinating.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 5:09 PM cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >> > >
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> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
> >> Western Michigan
> >>
> >
>