Words Twice a Week 8.29
If you are more into listening than reading, Words Twice a Week is available, along with other good stuff, as a podcast from St Paul’s Episcopal Church. Click here.
And first a comment from last time – James’ words about “Be quick to listen, slow to speak…” there was a line in the Love People book – “Speak only when your words are more valuable than silence.” And then I was reading Walking the Old Road, and the author was telling about learning to listen to the elders. So, moving on -
And this is really bare bones, but I wanted to get something to you before I head back to camp!
Some days from the church calendar -
Aug 30 Charles Chapman Grafton, Bishop of Fond du Lac, and Ecumenist, 1912. Hey – he was the bishop of Fond du Lac!
Aug 31 Aidan, 651, and Cuthbert, 687, Bishops of Lindisfarne, or more correctly, the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne, a cool place.
Sept 3 Phoebe, First Century Deacon, in fact the only woman in the Bible identified as a deacon! Kind of like the book group reading The Only Woman in the Room.. Paul also refers to her as a “patron” – she was probably a woman of means who supported the work. Paul trusted her to deliver his letter to the Romans. “Paul introduces Phoebe as his emissary to the church in Rome and, because they are not acquainted with her, Paul provides them with her credentials.”
Sept 4 Albert Schweitzer, Theologian and Humanitarian, an Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. He ditched it all to go and build and run a hospital in Lambarene, (I just like saying the name!) in French Equatorial Africa, later to become Gabon. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
Some days from the world/earth calendar -
Aug 30
+ Thurgood Marshal became a Supreme Court Justice in 1967 – the first African American. He was sworn in on Sept 2.
Aug 31
+ Thomas Edison patented his motion picture camera in 1897. Stop and ponder how it has made a difference to have visual stories, records of history?
+ US Marines left Haiti in 1926 after a 10 year occupation in which W Paul Jones says “the country was made to function much like an economic colony.”
+ Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in 1997.
Sept 1
+ Martha, last known passenger pigeon, died in 1914, in the Cincinnati Zoo.
+ Hitler attacked Poland, starting WWII in 1939
Sept 2
+ Eugene Field was born in 1850 “Field was not a serious student and spent much of his time at school playing practical jokes. He led raids on the president's wine cellar, painted the president's house school colors, and fired the school's landmark cannons at midnight. Field tried acting, studied law with little success, and also wrote for the student newspaper. He then set off for a trip through Europe but returned to the United States six months later, penniless.” He wrote over a dozen volumes of poetry, much of it light-hearted and humerous, and for children. He wrote Wynken, Blynken, and Nod and The Duel, (between a gingham dog and a calico cat). It apparently shares some content with a limerick There once were two cats from Kilkenny! (There’s quite a long story about the “Kilkenny Cats”) It also apparently inspired an album and title track The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Chet Atkins and Amy Grant. Seems like it ought to be on youtube, but I can’t find it. Here’s a girls chorus singing it.
Sept 3
+ Ebay was founded in 1995
+ Sally Benson was born in 1897. She wrote screenplays, including Shadow of a Doubt (1943) for Alfred Hitchcock, Come to the Stable (1949), Summer Magic (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964) and The Singing Nun (1966). Her screenplay for Anna and the King of Siam (1946) was nominated for an Academy Award. Come on – Viva Las Vegas and The Singing Nun (Dominica,nica, nica…..)!
Sept 4
+ Google founded in 1998 – “Just Google It”
+ Orville Faubus called out the National Guard to block 9 black students at Central High School, Little Rock. (Hey, we’ve been there – they have a really excellent National Historic Site Museum that even does tours into the High School.)
+ Geronimo surrendered in 1886.
Sept 5
+ After surrendering and while in US custody, Crazy Horse was assassinated in 1877.
Jeeze, kind of grim ending there, let's stick the Prayer for Peace in the world in here, just to hang onto a little hope with all that has gone on and is going on in the world -
That’s what I got for now…..
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