BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 25 - 07:27 PM

As for my neighbors staying out of trouble,
I had supper in the dining hall this weekend with two fellow residents
who live down the hall with their pet cat Angus, whom I have not met.
One of the ladies recalled a dining room disaster from a few years ago,
when she tripped on the rug and landed face first, breaking her nose.
Ambulance to the ER and so on. She can laugh about it now.
You wouldn't know to look at her that her nose had been broken.
What a scary thing.
But ambulances are well acquainted with our retirement community. It is teaching me to walk slowly and carefully.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 Dec 25 - 05:13 AM

It is teaching me to walk slowly and carefully.

Be careful not to talk yourself into being old.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Dec 25 - 11:26 AM

In the radio news headlines this morning my ears perked up about the murder of Rob Reiner. The BBC news was on covering non-US stuff so I pulled up the New York Times report. His father Carl is still alive (98), but I fear the loss of Rob and Michele, possibly at the hands of his grandson, is going to take out both Carl and his best friend Mel Brooks, who was so tight with that family.

That family is going to have a terrible time sorting out the trouble ahead. Murders don't usually happen without anger and/or mental illness accelerating the violence.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Dec 25 - 03:48 PM

According to The Guardian, Carl Reiner died in 2020.
A terrible tragedy, what just happened.
Mental illness is a terrible scourge.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 25 - 07:19 AM

Troublemakers wanted for Democracy.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Dec 25 - 10:43 AM

I was mistaken, Carl Reiner passed away in 2020. Just as well, to be spared this pain. It's something that occurs to me these days, as horrific things happen in the world, what would my parents have thought of them.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: r.padgett
Date: 21 Dec 25 - 01:09 PM

I have had my fb pages deleted it seems ~ I assume my political messages have got through to someone in US ~ I have lost my folk group and all contacts in UK and beyond ~ I cannot also use twitter/X

I am still alive thanks

Ray

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 25 - 01:13 PM

FB has opaque policies and seems to act when malcontents complain about accounts. Good luck in finding anything to restore.

I missed keb's correction here after my Reiner post (thanks), it has been a week of headaches from allergies that don't bode well for depth and accuracy. I've upped the medications to try for some control of symptoms.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 25 - 04:57 PM

Update to my post of July 7 of this year.
I reported on my friend's prison ministry, and on one parolee who was born in Vietnam. ICE detained him and deported him to Vietnam in September.

I wrote recently to my friend the prison chaplain.
Her response is so sad:
the parolee was found dead in his Vietnam apartment in early November.
The chaplain didn't say the cause of death.
I guess the former prisoner is in a better place now.
But the people he left behind are in mourning,
especially the chaplain:
she says he was like a son to her.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 25 - 06:57 PM

Mention was made of Hildegard von Bingen.
My chorus is one of several choruses under one umbrella, actually.
One of the choruses is a group of teenage girls called Melodious Accord.
They opened our Christmas concerts with
Hildegard von Bingen's "Ave generosa",
it was hypnotic and it set a tone for the rest of the concert.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: Helen
Date: 24 Dec 25 - 07:49 PM

I love Hildegard von Bingen's music. I wish I had been there to hear it.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: JennieG
Date: 24 Dec 25 - 08:14 PM

I'm with Helen - that would have been wonderful to hear.

Best wishes for a Christmas season full of peace and love, keberoxu.

Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
From: Helen
Date: 24 Dec 25 - 11:01 PM

I have similar sense of wonder for these songs on a CD set Vivaldi's Complete Sacred Choral Works:

Domine Deus, Rex Coelestis
Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
RV 595: Dixit Dominus, in D: 07. Judicabit

And on Bobby McFerrin's Paper Music CD:

Vivaldi Cello II: Largo

And one of my all-time favourite orchestral pieces by Anton Bruch:

Adagio Appassionato for violin & orchestra, Op 57

Music like these pieces take me into another more peaceful world.