THE FEELING OF AN EMPTY CHURCH

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As we speak is the final Sunday of 2024. The final Sunday of 2023 was solely yesterday. Time strikes too swiftly. Particularly as one will get older.

The sensation of an empty Church. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve stopped going to Mass on Sunday. Nonetheless, I did enhance stopping into an empty Church. Church buildings at a time of the day when it is just me and God. Cherished St. Patrick’s in New York Metropolis. It was so massive, it all the time felt empty. Many the European Church buildings I visited within the quiet of the day. The Greek isle ones particularly.

The Church didn’t essentially must be Catholic. The Greek Church on Oia in Santorini was totally different. Three causes drew me to it. There have been individuals. Many. Merely stopping in to say a brief prayer. Greeks are extraordinarily spiritual. And the gold! By no means noticed a lot gold. Adorned all over the place and on every thing within the Church. The third and maybe most necessary motive, it was cool inside.

Italian Church buildings have been mausoleums. Museums of previous. A quiet seriousness to them.

New York Metropolis supplied a range. I got here to benefit from the calmness of a Muslim museum which was church-like to me.

I by no means started the Church visits, no matter faith, in Key West. Why, I can’t clarify. Some day maybe I’ll perceive why.

I’m a bit introspective in the present day. I got here throughout an article this morning titled: “Are You Too Younger to Suppose About How You’re Ageing?”

The query needs to be approached two methods. The thoughts and the physique.

At 89, my thoughts has by no means been higher. Nearly as good because it was at 25, 35 and 45. I attribute it to the weblog writing which I started once I retired. Had I not, I truthfully consider I might be sitting in a wheel chair in the present day in a nursing dwelling with my tongue hanging out.

The physique is a distinct story. Particularly this 12 months. A catastrophe. A coronary heart assault, three coronary heart surgical procedures and now lumbar disc issues troublesome to consider. The physique goes. No less than mine appears to be.

I as soon as was a runner. then a walker. On a regular basis. Large time. About 15 years in the past, for no specific motive, I simply stopped. Maybe my bodily issues this 12 months have been self-inflicted because of this.

I now fear about my physique. Too late maybe.

An instance how my adversarial physique circumstances are affecting my every day life. Yesterday morning once I wrote the weblog, I used to be excited I had slept effectively and had no again ache once I arose. I used to be going to observe a Syracuse basketball sport at Brady’s within the afternoon. I by no means made it. Round midday and abruptly, my again went out, kicked in, no matter method it may be described. Spent the afternoon in mattress. Might solely get periodic scores re the sport on TV.

Syracuse received. Good! Beat Bucknell 75-63. Syracuse now 6-6.

The ACC season begins Tuesday. For 2 months, Syracuse will play Tuesday evenings and Saturdays. Hopefully, I’ll get to observe a variety of video games at Brady’s throughout that point.

Stay and study. Why are marriage ceremony bands worn on the fourth finger of the left hand?

The customized had its starting method again in historical Egypt. Even earlier than the Roman Empire.

There’s a vein within the fourth finger known as the vena amoris. The vein of affection. It’s linked to the center. For Egyptians, it was an emblem of eternity. Infinity. Ergo represented marriage – love without end.

Any fact to the next assertion. Ronald Reagan mentioned: “We don’t have inflation as a result of the individuals are residing too effectively, we have now inflation as a result of the federal government resides too effectively.”

Feminine authors had but to “come a great distance” within the 1800’s. Jane Austin wrote Sense and Sensibility in 1811, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818. They weren’t listed because the authors. The names of feminine authors have been left clean as a result of the literary world refused to acknowledge them. Silly girls! Really, silly males!

An attention-grabbing piece in USA As we speak: “2024 Was a Unhealthy 12 months for Primary Decency in America. You Can Thank Trump for That.”

A bit prolonged. Value studying. I like to recommend it to you.

“E” is probably the most generally used letter within the English language.

This tidbit of data is attention-grabbing, if nothing else. The longest phrase within the English language. 45 letters. Earlier than I share it with you, let me inform what it means. Simpler to do than write or pronounce the phrase.

The phrase refers to a sort of lung dysfunction attributable to inhaling silica mud, normally used within the manufacture of glass, pottery, ceramics, bricks, and synthetic stones.

The phrase: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolsanoconiosis. Large! All 45 letters there. Rely them for those who suspect not.

A contact of Key West.

A reminder, recollection. Tennessee Williams and Jimmy Buffett learn and researched on the Key West Library.

An instance of Key West historical past and custom. The Conch Republic has a Navy. Its Captain Finbar Gittelman. He died December 26 at age 82. The Conch Republic flag at Metropolis Corridor is being flown at half mast in his honor.

I shut with snowbird Fred Klein. He returned to Key West yesterday. I look ahead to seeing him once more.

Take pleasure in your Sunday!



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