Nothing Like. . .

Nothing like a sunny, warm evening in Seattle on Elliott Bay. It makes us forget the rain very quickly. 

Trapeze for Dinner

The keeper left us for the evening and joined her friends Anthony and Ann for dinner at the Pink Door.  The attraction for them was not so much the food but to have dinner while being entertained by a trapeze artist flying over their table, dipping into their wine and entrees.  They all agreed that  even if they worked out for the rest of their lives, they should never take up the trapeze. It requires an athleticism which is far beyond their reach. 

Hello to Ann and Anthony

The keeper spent the later part of the day with her old friend from college, Anthony, and his wife Ann.  They used to live in Manhattan but have retired in Georgia.  Anthony sings with the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal in Augusta.  They were on tour and sang at St Mark's Cathedral on Sunday. The keeper said the singing was very fine.  We understand that they are cat people. We approve.

Sunday Farewell to Brenda

The keeper leaves us at home a lot.  And this morning was no different than other mornings.  Today we had hoped to go outside.  But instead we both got medicine and a goodbye kiss.  Alice threw up her medicine and her breakfast. The keeper was late for her first event. But later today she and the young adults had a farewell party for Brenda the intern.  After they blessed her, they ate every kind of food imaginable, but there was no Mexican food! Then they played charades.  Brenda made a great impression on the group and they will miss her. 

Special Sacred Tour

The keeper came home late last night.  She had spent an entire day doing something called professional development.  We have no idea what that is, but she was so excited about the ideas she and the LEMMINGS gained from a new book on liturgy and the four presences of Christ which her friend has written. 

Then she joined some of the young adults and the star intern who is ending her time with the keeper for Taize Prayer  and a special cathedral tour.  They learned about everything and saw most everything inside and out---from the organ bellows to the rainbow and the sacrifice of Noah on the front doors to how those to be baptized face the west and the setting sun and death to die to sin and be raised up in Christ and how then they process back facing the east and the new dawn to practice the resurrection now living in them. 

Enchantment

"Can you remember the faint sweetness of the iris?" the keeper asked us.  We thought we did.  But we smell lots of things all the time.  She lifted us up and made us pay attention.  Alice started sneezing.  Then the keeper told us how when she was a girl she would wake up early and run outside to smell the irises as they opened.  She said the fragrance was enchanting, and it still is. Alice and I agree that it's good she doesn't have a cat's sense of smell or she would never get any work done.  She would be too enchanted.

A Sunny End to May

Sorry, folks.  We have been hounding the keeper all week to be responsible and keep up this blog.  But sometimes she thinks we are asking for more food.  She may be adept at some languages, but ours is not one of them.  Last Tuesday she  let us spend most of the day outside with her as she worked in the yard and sneezed. So Alice headed to the  garage for rest amidt the dust, while I, Lord Cecil, caught up on my Vitamin D.