29 July ‘23
Tuesday am 29 July’23 WU 68o WW 52o
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I told you I’ve been watching old stories from the original Twilight Zone.
I also told you I remember a few of them and I was waiting for the one where all the residents are either “embalmed” bodies posed as what they wish they could have been when they were alive or manikins created to “flesh” out the dead person’s final wish. None alive including the caretaker, Mr. Wickwire, who was in charge of seeing they are posed correctly for their final wishes and of keeping them dusted; and who was actually a “robot”.
I finally got to see it again. It was called “Elegy”. It was #20 in season 1.
I will ask again … Do any of you remember the Twilight Zone and Rod Serling? What were your favorite episodes?
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Recently read a note in “… Walking the Red Road” about a Mohawk woman named Pauline Johnson who was born to an English mother and a Mohawk Chief father in 1861 at the Six Rivers Reserve near Hamilton, Ontatrio, Canada. cHer first book of poetry was published in 1895.
However the woman named as the first American woman poet is acknowledged to be Anne Bradford nee Dudley. She was born in Northampton, United Kingdom in 1612 into the Puritan family prominent as founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. I have a copy of her first book of poetry published in 1650.
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My friend of long standing, Bill King, recently sent me this interesting information:
“Came March 1941 when Americans were ordered to leave China; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11gYQih8Xk;
then came Dec. 7 (or 8, in Asia time). Some of us recall being ordered out of China in 1941 …
“I could have been a passenger, too – save I was born a King in the US in March, and not, still earlier, a son of Presbyterian missionaries to China, – a Van Etten.”
And as Bill said … Here we go again.
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There’s a rose in my porch garden just outside the northwest corner window. It’s called Joseph’s Coat. I first saw one of them in the front yard of the house Mark owned on Maltby Street in Rochester, NY. If you’ve never heard of them, or seen one, their blossoms come in varied colors.
My rose’s blossoms start with yellow centers and as they age the yellow becomes ringed with red petals and wind up dried pinkish before the petals start to drop. The bees love them and even the hummers sometimes visit them.
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And another blast from the past … Presenting the Smothers Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfwMkO9h1o&ab_channel=CBSSundayMorning
Watch for the VietNam Joke (!)
I still wear my Another Mother for Peace necklace given to me by the Founder Donna Reed because I was an initial member.
Another time I’ll tell you about my interaction with the LAPD over that war.
I still miss the Smothers Brothers. CBS made a big mistake when they allowed censors to fire them over their political opinions.
American involvement in war in Vietnam lasted from August, 1964 until April, 1975.
Our older son would have been old enough for the draft in 1974. That was the reason we made a trip into Canada to look for property in case we needed a place to go to keep our son out of the draft to go fight in Viet Nam. We found a place and opened a Bank Account.
Fortunately, the draft was over before it was needed.
And here’s a bit of trivia … Did you know Tommy Smothers has one blue eye and one brown eye?
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I’m still reading The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels. Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism.
The Gnostic Gospels were found in pieces and went from owner to owner during translation of the Coptic so even though Pagels is listed as the author, actually she is a translator and a compiler of translations of the Gnostic Christian texts found over a span of years in Egypt at Nag Hammadi.
It is not an easy read. However I am learning a lot from Professor Pagels. The first Chapter is titled “the Controversy over Christ’s Resurrection: Historical Event or Symbol?”
My first note, which I wrote on the first page of the first chapter in The Gnostic Gospel, is, “What about Lazarus?”
I’ll probably be making notes and offering opinions in this blog as I read further.
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A chain started by a friend in re Mitch McConnell’s problem ..
“Just wondering, .. whatever happened to the type of senior senators who really loved America, like, say, Hubert Humphrey?”
And others added …
“Or ran for president like Adlai Stevenson with the hole in the bottom of his shoe?”
“Or Jimmy Carter, who spent time preaching in his church, or teaching Sunday school, or building Houses for Humanity.”
“Or Harry – on retiring – back to his home in Missouri mowing his own grass?”
“We’ve been robbed. And now we are too stunned to weep.”
To Mitch et al … seems there was once a teacher who taught something about reaping what you sow …
Who would you add to this list?
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Now to end this week’s blog with …
“We do not worship the Great Spirit as the white people do. But we believe that the forms of worship are indifferent to the Great Spirit.”
Red Jacket (Sagoyeawatha) Seneca, 1811
So ‘til next week …