St Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake holds an annual Blessing of the Hands of healers. It’s the hospital where Mom was during her last illness, and our family got a lot of support from the Episcopal priest who runs their pastoral care program, Fr. Lincoln Ure. This event sounds just like Fr. Linc; I experienced the regular Wednesday Eucharist with him and some of the staff when Mom was upstairs, and the following week, I had to go back after she passed. Those people are some powerful healers, and I got a sense of how deeply they care for one…
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… or find yourself drunk, high, half nekkid, and screaming at people in Sugar House Park. The latter path is the one I’d have taken if I’d stayed on in Salt Lake instead of moving away. Absence of pants nets charges for man in Sugar House Park – Salt Lake Tribune Court documents accuse the 36-year-old of hiding in the park and jumping out and scaring women and bicyclists. At one point, the documents say, he stood in a roadway, pulled down his shorts and began screaming at cars while naked from the waist down. Police arrived to find him…
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Thanks to @DailyHerald, here’s a useful resource for contacting Illinois legislators. Some use their personal email addresses, and there’s no single state IL email domain? Good government FAIL. Daily Herald | How to contact your lawmakers Leaders Rep. Michael Madigan House speaker, 22nd District Springfield office: 217 782-5350 Chicago office: 773 581-8000 E-mail: mmadigan@hds.ilga.gov Fax preferred: 773 581-9414 Sen. John Cullerton Senate president, 6th District Springfield office: 782-2728 Chicago office: 773 883-0770 E-mail: john@senatorcullerton.com Rep. Tom Cross House GOP leader, 84th District Springfield office: 217 782-1331 Plainfield office: 815 254-0000 E-mail: tom@tomcross.com Sen. Christine Radogno Senate GOP leader, 41st District…
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It would piss you off, right? I know it would really make me angry if that happened to my mom, but I can’t check because the information is hidden behind a registration wall AND a “member in good standing/temple recommend number” wall. Because when she was alive, she was really horrified by the idea that everyone in her family had been baptized against their will, after they died, and that someday she would, too. Well, it’s apparently happened to President Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. I think it’s a terrible breach of spiritual protocol, the church’s own supposedly “hard and…
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The problem was the “saint” in the name, as Utah is the state of the Saints. The Salt Lake private school has changed its name so that it will seem less parochial sounding and easier to market to local families looking for an educational alternative. Rolly: A sign of the times? – Salt Lake Tribune Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School has been a prominent fixture in Utah education for about 130 years. Founded by the Episcopal Church, the school has proudly boasted on uniforms, school communications and signs its motto: “Nihil Longus Deo†Never Far from God. Until now. The school…
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Happy Birthday, Timmy Mom had this little desk calendar for years; she put notes and reminders on special days. Today is my sister Timmy’s birthday, and the motto for today is "Cultivate good habits, the bad ones all grow wild." Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Today on Mom’s Desk Calendar By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 May ’09, 6.54pm CDT PST
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Bad Hair Day Plant By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 May ’09, 12.21pm CDT PST
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San Clemente Church in Rome must be the real-life model of the church from Ngaio Marsh’s mystery novel, “When In Rome.” Although it’s one of her later books, and not the best of them all, it’s got its points, and the mystery takes place in the Mithraic temple 2 levels below the church. Underground Fun: European Edition – Boing Boing What makes San Clemente special is what lies beneath. Take the stairs down from the 12th century church, and you’ll find yourself in a previous incarnation of the Basilica that dates to the 4th century. The light is bad down…
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | A session with Seeger Dropping yet more sugar into his cafe mocha, Pete Seeger laments the withering of his singing voice: “At my age the banjo-playing is shot too”. In fact musician Seeger often seems 20 years younger than he is – although these days what excites him is less his music and more the well-being of the US environment. But this weekend he will quit the Hudson Valley for his native Manhattan and a big concert to celebrate his 90th birthday. On the bill are Bruce Springsteen, Baez and more than 30 other names.…
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Inappropriate Pepper By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 2 May ’09, 5.17pm CDT PST