tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15353936416878595502024-03-05T16:54:50.278-05:00...at the Mystic Bascule BridgeThe bascule bridge in downtown Mystic CT is a landmark. The bridge can serve as a symbolic landmark that encourages discussion, reflection, and the creation of bridges to and from innovation and tradition. Come join the discussion.Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-60819098203236259302013-09-25T23:16:00.000-04:002013-09-25T23:19:43.285-04:00Bible Literacy Opportunity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-15583788884920238492013-04-22T09:12:00.004-04:002013-04-22T09:12:49.511-04:00<b>JOIN US FOR A LIVELY DISCUSSION</b><br />
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<br />Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-57172897340528553992013-03-06T10:20:00.001-05:002013-03-06T22:03:31.554-05:00Thanks - Tim is HomeHappy to report that Tim Oakley is home. We are all grateful. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.<br />
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The Connecticut State Police are asking for the public's help trying to locate a 32-year-old man missing from North Stonington. <br />
A Silver Alert was issued for Timothy Oakley, who was last seen in town earlier Tuesday. <br />
State police said they believe Oakley to be suicidal and he has a history of mental illness.<br />
Oakley is being described as a white male who is 6'2" and weighs 155 pounds with blue eyes and red hair.<br />
He was last seen wearing a black winter jacket, blue jeans and white Nike shoes.<br />
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call state police at 860-848-6500.<br />
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By Andrew D. Scrimgeour<br />
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<br />Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-65124407888808507612012-12-24T12:46:00.001-05:002012-12-24T12:48:32.964-05:00Christmas Eve 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Gospel of Luke "does not simply say, 'Christ is born, but to <b>you </b>he is born.' Neither does Jesus say, 'I bring glad tidings, but to <b>you </b>I bring glad tidings of great joy.' Furthermore, this joy was not to remain in Christ, but it shall be to all the people....Christ must above all things become our own and we become his."<br />
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<br />Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-5103875070707920422012-12-19T15:52:00.000-05:002012-12-19T15:52:29.822-05:00Reflections-Coincidence: Bible, Film, and Sandy HookA biblical text; the reminder of the classic Sophia Loren film, and the terrible tragedy of all of those children and adults being senselessly slaughtered in Sandy Hook (Newtown, CT) have stimulated these thoughts.<br />
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First, I was working on the biblical readings for the Fourth Sunday in Advent (Luke 1:39-56). I had decided to preach on this text. I was well on the way to developing a sermon with the title, "Put Mary back into Christmas." Obviously a play on the popular song putting Christ back into Christmas.<br />
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Second, comes the Sophia Loren Italian film, "Two Women, English title." Loren won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actress. The story depicts a mother and teen age daughter's relationship during World War II. The terror, rape, loss of home, and all of the atrocities of war bring ever more problems to these two women. I do not think the film glorifies violence to women as a few have indicated. It does depict how women are the victims of the powerful and ruthless but the focus is on the complexities of the relationships of two women who are related, certainly differently than Elizabeth and Mary.<br />
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Third, we have all been assaulted by the images--and suggestions of even more disturbing pictures--of violence perpetrated on the children and women teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. The special bond between teacher and child, in more than half the cases little girls (in no way do I wish to diminish the little boys and the many male police and first responders) presents vivid pictures. The relationships of teacher, predominantly women, and student in the face of the powerful aggressor with a bundle of guns and ammunition calls to mind the relationships of "two women." Then there are the mother's of those children caught up in the aftermath of the violence. Again there were the fathers with the same looks of horror as their wives.<br />
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Each of these sets of images calls to mind the beauty and fragility of human relationships. Of course explicitly in the biblical account God has played a role. That role is on the one hand miraculous but not without its own complications given a teenager who was probably ostracized by her community after becoming pregnant. Playing behind the film and the current events at Newtown are the inevitable questions of where God is and why do these things happen. In the coincidental meeting for me of these three stories many questions are raised beyond the where and why. The presence and absence, whether of God or another human being, the relationships in these stories call us forth to not just seek some singular meaning but to discover the web of meanings that are intertwined in our own self's presence and absence. This Advent Season punctuated by the tragedies of war and especially by the elementary classroom deaths reminds us of the need to never let the other in these stories go unattended. <br />
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<br />Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-68107594936193700822012-12-15T11:03:00.000-05:002012-12-15T11:03:26.590-05:00Newtown and Christmas Bells<br />
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From a friend I was reminded of Longfellow's "Christmas Bells." The second of the three stanzas below contains what many of us must feel this day after the terrible violence in Newtown, CT. And we await for our neighbors and ourselves the feelings of the third stanza. Our waiting must be active and not passive. We have much to do to with regard to finding new ways to deal with the violence in our culture that interrupts like an earthquake even those places that seem so tranquil.<br />
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<pre><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."</span></pre>
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Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-25482442733010586822012-12-14T16:59:00.001-05:002012-12-14T16:59:18.054-05:00Newtown, CT Tragedy<br />
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<b>VIGIL FOR OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEWTOWN</b></div>
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<b>DECEMBER 14, 2012 7:00 PM </b></div>
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<b>FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH</b></div>
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All are invited to share the loss of so many in a senseless act of violence and to offer hope for the future. </div>
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Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-74633583301682869302012-10-23T15:00:00.000-04:002012-10-23T15:00:16.280-04:00Elisabeth Von Trapp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by her father Werner von Trapp’s guitar playing and singing, Elisabeth began
taking piano lessons when she was eight and by the age of sixteen she was
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on her famed family’s passion for music, Elisabeth has created her own artistic
style, at once ethereal and earthy, delicate and powerful. Listeners have
likened her to Judy Collins and Loreena McKennitt. Critics have called her
voice ...“ hauntingly clear “ “ joyfully expressive “ and “ simply beautiful.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Elisabeth’s
concert repertoire ranges from Bach to Broadway ... Schubert to Sting. With
equal ease and eloquence she sings timeless wonders like Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
Favorite Things and Edelweiss, Lieder by Mozart, Puccini's O Mio Babbino Caro,
soaring gospel tunes, pop classics like A Whiter Shade of Pale and her own
stunning compositions. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Radio and CNN Spanish Radio. She has appeared on CBS’s Eye on People, ABC’s
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one leaves an Elisabeth von Trapp performance unchanged ... audiences of all
ages are drawn by the promise of her famous name ... awed by the beauty of her
voice and musical arrangements ... their hearts touched forever by the
astonishing sound of her unique new music. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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will go toward the mission of the First United Methodist Church to serve others
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Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-65531814337880877652012-09-24T14:52:00.000-04:002012-09-24T14:52:32.218-04:00Jesus and .......... :Small Fragment Evokes Big Story! <br />
<img alt="Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to 'my wife'" height="179" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120918060102-papyrus-front-story-top.jpg" title="Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to 'my wife'" width="320" /><br />
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The small piece of papyrus above has come bounding into the news, even in small regional newspapers like The Day newspaper. On Sunday September 22, 2012, The Day ran an Associated Press piece from Jay Lindsay under the title, "Harvard not yet publishing finding that Jesus had wife." I call these kinds of headlines and articles titillating. The papyrus contains the incomplete line "Jesus said, my wife......" This fragment could be followed by a host of verbs and objects that in no way complete a sentence or thought that even implies Jesus had a wife. It is provocative and worth studying.<br />
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Karen King, an excellent scholar, read a paper at a conference in Rome that included the initial discussion of this new found piece of papyrus. The fragment from an anonymous collector seems to be from the fourth century CE (AD). So far no one has questioned the fragment's authenticity. In no way was King's paper suggesting that this small piece of papyrus proved Jesus was married. In fact it may not even suggest that point at all.<br />
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Certainly we all want to learn more about the fragment but there is much to be done before even initial observations beyond King's paper can be presented. It is too bad that it is the "titillating" news that draws attention to itself. We need more substantive discussions central to understanding Jesus message or any important religious figure's words. Some of the other more complex life and death issues across the globe need to be in our purview. Fortunately this story in the media is less likely to provoke battles on the streets.<br />
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 7:00 – 8:30
PM<br /><span></span>“JERUSALEM AS DAVID AND SOLOMON KNEW IT” – DR. ANDY
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sure to keep open this date on your calendars because you are going to find out
about all of the latest perspectives on the remarkable city of Jerusalem. It is
one of the most extensively excavated cities in the entire world. Do you know
the city’s altitude? Do you know how big it was and is? Before it was the
central city of ancient Israel do you know what it was? Do you know what the
name means? Do you know what latitude it is on as compared to major America
East Coast cities? Come and get your questions answered by one of the world’s
leading experts.</div>
Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-60051444004658671072012-08-27T12:38:00.001-04:002012-08-27T12:42:30.907-04:00Food and Classical Guitar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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Ham and Bean Supper $11 or $10 with a can good donated. You
won't beat Mary's famous recipe.<br />
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Michael Sheridan plays solo
guitar --‐ Classical, Bossa, Tango, Gypsy Jazz. He resides in Brooklyn, NY, and
his wife’s family lives on Willow Street here in Mystic. There will be a
freewill offering accepted with the suggested amount of $5. Bring your friends
for an evening of great food and music.<br />
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Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-57503398079782113012012-08-15T15:37:00.003-04:002012-08-15T17:03:31.174-04:00Creativity and Aging<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We need an effort like <a href="http://www.engagedaging.org/" target="_blank">EngAGE</a> in the Mystic area. See this excellent <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/for-healthy-aging-a-late-act-in-the-footlights/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120815" target="_blank">article</a> on a creative approach for building a better life among the 55+ group. You know this demographic is growing in Mystic. Are you interested in bringing this type of innovative approach to our citizens? Let's get started with a conversation.Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-77436141605337118002012-08-10T05:47:00.000-04:002012-08-10T05:47:21.827-04:00Live Music at Mystic Art Festival<span style="color: #3333ff;">First United Methodist Church</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Summer
Classics" </span>- by Pianist Dayne Rugh<br />An Afternoon of classic piano music,
vintage and contemporary for our friends and neighbors in Mystic for their
listening pleasure while enjoying the sites of the annual Mystic Art
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em>"When the Saints Go Marching
In"</em> and all your favorite Dixieland songs. <br /><span>Members of the band
are also private music teachers, who wish to pass on their musical knowledge and
experiences to the next generation, and entrepreneurs seeking new ways to
preserve and perpetuate this uniquely American art form.
</span><br /><span>Children of all ages are welcome. Freewill offerings accepted.</span></span></div>Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-67484959095079970162012-08-10T05:33:00.000-04:002012-08-10T05:33:10.542-04:00Encountering Survivors Exhibit<span style="color: #ff0300; font-family: Perpetua; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0300; font-family: Perpetua; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0300; font-family: Perpetua; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span><br />
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This exhibit located in the community room at the First United Methodist Church will be on display. It is timely and can illuminate the contemporary focus on survivors of tragedies in our daily news. Encountering Survivors focuses on the understandings of each holocaust survivor, and how he or she learned to take their experience and live a vibrant and productive life. Students from 7 area schools interviewed survivors. Seeing and hearing eyewitnesses made history come alive. Come see their work and reflect on their understandings. </div>
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used a grant from the Bodenwein Foundation for a program entitled “Encountering
Survivors.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is our fourth year
working with local high schools and this year, a middle school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year’s Encountering Survivor program
includes seven schools that are represented by the following teachers and their
students:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:personname w:st="on">David
Williams</st1:personname> (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Bacon</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place>); Pam Neidig (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Fitch</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Senior
High School</st1:placetype></st1:place>); <st1:personname w:st="on"><st1:personname w:st="on">Marceline Macrino</st1:personname> </st1:personname>(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Ledyard</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">High School</st1:placetype></st1:place>); <st1:personname w:st="on">Joel
Farrior</st1:personname> (<st1:placename w:st="on">Leonard</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">J.</st1:placename> Tyl Middle School, Montville); <st1:personname w:st="on">Chris Marot</st1:personname> and <st1:personname w:st="on">Bridget
Joyce</st1:personname> (New London High School); <st1:personname w:st="on">Henry
Laudone</st1:personname> (Norwich Free Academy); and <st1:personname w:st="on">Lynn
Frazier</st1:personname> (Windham High School).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through the “Encountering Survivor” program,
students interact with survivors/children of survivors individually through a
socialization and interview process in the interviewee’s home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year’s participants included <st1:personname w:st="on">Henny Simon</st1:personname>, Rae Gawendo, Lola Fox, Oleg Elperin,
Edie Kil-Freeman, Dr. <st1:personname w:st="on">Stephen Powell</st1:personname>,
and <st1:personname w:st="on">Romana Strochlitz Primus</st1:personname>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During these intimate meetings, the students
learned of the survivor’s childhood, war time experiences, and liberation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The students also begin to comprehend the
survivors’ attitudes and feelings toward these events, and ultimately gain an
understanding of precisely what the survivor experienced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing and hearing an eyewitness to the Shoah
makes the history come alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
students are now able to represent the survivors and tell their stories with accuracy
and feeling to any audience for at least another 50 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a way, the lives of the survivors have
become immortalized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 17pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Students also attended a talk given by Mr. Ben Cooper, a
WWII veteran and liberator of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dachau</st1:place></st1:city>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a concluding project, students wrote
articles documenting the life of each survivor and these articles were presented
in newspaper format at our final meeting held at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Ledyard</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">High School</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These posters represent their hard work.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></i>Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-70117884203960888392012-08-08T09:34:00.000-04:002012-08-08T09:34:14.338-04:00Resources for 55+ Citizens in Mystic<img alt="" class="image_right" height="185" src="http://www.lovethatface.com/_clientfiles/images/agingface.jpg" width="350" /><br />
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Seeing a couple of Letters to The Day recently has reminded me that the demographics of Mystic show that we need to take more care that the 55+ group of citizens will require new and creative thinking and action. Many of these people have contributed to our community for a lifetime. We owe them special care.<br />
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The First United Methodist Church Mystic would like to identify the greatest concerns among the 55+ community. Please go to this page on the church's website to contact us with your feedback. You will see that you can call or email <a href="http://firstumcmystic.org/contact-us.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://firstumcmystic.org/contact-us.html</a> Pass this on to a friend.<br />
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Let's create some effective, creative programs to use one of our most important resources.Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-82149046259997513052012-08-01T22:27:00.001-04:002012-08-01T22:28:26.008-04:00Helping Veterans - Soul Repair Center<br />
<a href="http://www.crcna.org/site_uploads/uploads/crcNews/SoulRepair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" id="il_fi" src="http://www.crcna.org/site_uploads/uploads/crcNews/SoulRepair.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="150" /></a>Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth, TX is opening a new center to provide public education and research to better understand moral injury, expecially as it relates to veterans. A book, Soul Repair, is forthcoming.<br />
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Read more and get in touch with the Center.<br />
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<a href="http://www.brite.edu/programs.asp?BriteProgram=soulrepair">http://www.brite.edu/programs.asp?BriteProgram=soulrepair</a><br />
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This letter to the editor of The Day, New London, CT, appeared in the Tuesday 31 July. edition Can we gather the information and see if we can help??<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kitchen serving needy is forced to
close</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Mary Howland Former director FAMILY Kitchen Mystic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is with a heavy heart that I
write to tell your readers that F.A.M.I.L.Y. Kitchen housed at Faith Lutheran
Church, has closed. We served a free meal to anyone who came, every Monday
night for nearly three years. We served over 6,000 meals, and handed out dog
and cat food, as well as kitty litter. Regretfully, I have become ill and can
no longer work the hours it took, nor do the physical labor that was involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I want to tell everyone that we had
the finest staff of volunteers I have ever worked with in my 30-plus years of
volunteering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also would like to note my
appreciation for the Faith Lutheran Church, Stop & Shop of Groton, and all
those who donated. Left over money and food stuffs will go to other
organizations serving the needy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will miss our patrons terribly and
wish them the best. If there is a church out there who wishes to take up this
effort, please feel free to contact me, and I will advise on the start up. I
can offer advice only at this point, but the need is very real in our town, and
I pray someone will step up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In a recent editorial David Brooks says, <br />
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"Equal opportunity, once core to the nation’s identity, is now a tertiary concern. If America really wants to change that, if the country wants to take advantage of all its human capital rather than just the most privileged two-thirds of it, then people are going to have to make some pretty uncomfortable decisions." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/opinion/brooks-the-opportunity-gap.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/opinion/brooks-the-opportunity-gap.html</a><br />
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How would you identify the "uncomfortable decisions?"<br />
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<br />Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-15047181186134757612012-07-04T11:03:00.001-04:002012-07-04T11:06:41.549-04:00Patriotism = Voting<br />
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YOUR VOTE WILL SHOW MORE BRILLIANT COLOR AND A LOUDER SOUND THAN ALL THE FIREWORKS IN THE WORLD.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henri Nouwen, in his book
"Reaching Out," says: "I met an older experienced
professor who had spent most of his life there (University of Notre Dame). And while we strolled over the
beautiful campus, he said with a certain melancholy in his voice, 'You
know....my whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly
interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.'"
(Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out, Garden City., N.Y.: Doubleday & Co.,
Inc., 36) <o:p></o:p></span></div>Kent Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696393083959046160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535393641687859550.post-8879535301227148572012-06-13T11:20:00.000-04:002012-06-13T11:20:11.773-04:00Father's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />My heart leaps up when I behold <br /> A rainbow in the sky: <br />So was it when my life began; <br />So is it now I am a man; <br />So be it when I shall grow old, <br /> Or let me die! <br />The Child is father of the Man; <br />And I could wish my days to be <br />Bound each to each by natural piety.<br /><br /> William Wordsworth (1770-1850)<br /><br /> </div>
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“The child is father to the man.” <br />How can he be? The words are wild. <br />Suck any sense from that who can, <br />“The child is father to the man.” <br />No; what the poet did write ran, <br />“The man is father to the child.” <br />“The child is father to the man!” <br />How can he be? The words are wild!<br /> <br />Gerald Manley Hopkins (1884-1889)
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