A Day of Many Nothings

Thursday, March 23, 2006

At work, there was little new discussion on anything in particular while the repairman updated the maintenance on the copier. And Rosemary, Jimmy, Ivy, and Meg discussed the good snows that used to come when they were kids.

“They always say how Missouri has these great snows,” Rosemary was saying, “and I haven’t seen anything good the five years that I’ve been here.”

The repairman spoke up from the floor where he was brushing out old toner, “When I was in the sixth grade here, we had 27 snow days one year. Three feet of snow in one day, once.”

After the appropriate exclamations of surprise were made, Jimmy called over to him:

“And when you were a kid do you remember skating on the ponds, when they froze over?”

“Oh, yeah. We even skated on a creek that froze over one year. A creek!”

And that was pretty much the morning – the weather and the like. And Ivy brought donuts again. But the day was oddly interesting in parts, as every day was to some extent. But it was not terribly. The most interesting part was reading a chapter of Bing’s book, which he was in the process of writing and had asked for some advice on the particular chapter. This is good, she thought to herself as she wrote notes in the margins. A land from the old days and dialog to match. Reminded her of the good old historical fiction series from the pen of G.A. Henty.

And Collette came across Galatians 1:8 in reference to the birth of Islam and Mormonism, however, she did not think on it in super detail, as she knew little of such things. But it was a verse of encouragement against the forces of evil.

And that was the day – some days were just such as that. And in Collette’s experience, Thursdays had been such days nearly all her life, except for in the early days when choir was held on Thursdays, and then they had been more interesting.

“May the Lord bless King George, convert him, and take him to heaven, as we want no more of him.”

– Rev. John Gruber (Baltimore’s Light Street Methodist Church) on the eve of the Battle of Fort McHenry, War of 1812