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In April I missed the shortest Victoria city council meeting (35 minutes) because we were on vacation, and I hit the longest Victoria city council meeting (4 hours counting the Enki groundbreaking and city workshop) after we were home from vacation. Next time I hope it's hit and miss in the opposite direction. *** In April I started spraying for deer already. So far so good. This is the first spring in many years I hit the yard before the deer had a chance to nibble on my sweet hosta salads. Hostas look their best in May and June and by July they lose some of their freshness. Oh, well. For everything there is a season and a time for everything under the sun, or something like that. *** In April we put 2,500 miles on my new car and took it into territory we had never before visited. I'm not talking about the familiar flatlands and fields of Iowa and Missouri. I'm talking about the rocky hills and ravines of Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. There were a few cattle and horses fenced in here and there, but my first impression is that these are not states known for their agriculture, like our states here in America's Breadbasket. *** In April I got to make a fine Sunday dinner for our son Nick and his family. I can't give Sophie and Mia enough hugs and kisses. Their every move and sentence and gesture and word is a gift to Grandma Sue. *** In April we ripped out the carpet in our upstairs hallway and master bedroom and put in a hardwood floor -- beautiful, clean, hard, white oak, like on our main floor. Actually, we didn't do it. We hired it to be done while we were visiting the late greats and posing with the living stars on our road trip. The floor is lovely and we didn't have to live through the mess. It did take a while, however, to put everything back into the closets and drawers where it belonged. We've had projects and been improving our home ever since we built it 45 years ago. I wonder if we'll ever be done. *** In April I received an interesting long letter from John Kirsch of Neenah, Wisconsin, which will be placed in the "Remember When" column of the June issue of the Gazette along with a couple photos. Thank you, John. *** In April we lived through lots of rain. Here in Victoria it was a pretty nice and needed rain. But on our way south, it rained so hard for so long one afternoon, the wipers couldn't keep up. It was blinding and kind of scary. And it was responsible, we suspect, for the freeway accident on the other side of the median. A huge fifth-wheel lay tipped over on its side, perpendicular across the road so no vehicles could get by. The traffic backed up for miles and miles and we were thankful to be going in the other direction. *** In April we heard a homily while at EWTN near Birmingham, Alabama, that stays with me. By Father Brian Van Hove, it centered on individual people who did something for others that nobody else could do. He said there are some things only we can do -- concrete, real, personal, interactive, precise things, good things, that, to repeat, only we can do, in the context of our daily life. Father Brian's Great Aunt Emma, who was shot in the leg during the First World War, visited every week a little old lady with dementia, did her dishes and cleaned up her house. So often, he said, there's nobody else who would do the job. He told of Mother Teresa who was walking through Manhattan with two visiting priests who lost her, literally. They backtracked, retraced their steps, and found her tending a homeless person on the sidewalk, as only she would do. He spoke of Mother Angelica, who founded the world's largest religious media network, a task uniquely meant for Mother Angelica, a concrete, interactive, precise task. *** In April we watched Queen Elizabeth celebrate her 90th birthday and we saw her husband Prince Philip and their son Prince Charles and his son Prince William and his son Prince George. We also happened upon a TV documentary about Prince Philip's mother and were amazed by the story and confounded that we hadn't heard it before. Briefly, we learned that Princess Alice was a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, that she married into the Greek royal family, ended up fleeing into exile, suffered a nervous breakdown, was locked away in mental hospitals, became a hero of World War II, risked her life to hide a Jewish family from the Nazis, gave away her possessions, and founded her own religious order. Almost unbelievable. But true. *** In April I finished my May issue of the Gazette just in time to welcome spring. The Gazette is my concrete, interactive, precise task. What is yours? |
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May 2016 |
