Which Reminds Me

All of this commotion makes me wonder what is this wicked secret that my evil cousins are concealing from the rest of us? Because, really, my cousins are not really so bright and sparkling that they should be given such prominence in the public arena, not that I would ever dare to express this obvious point. It's just that their many protestations and defensive maneuvers, their coweringly craven fear of attacks from me, their desperately frantic attempts to pass themselves off as respectable adults and/or rich people, as if anyone was asking, raise the question of what they might be hiding from us behind the scenes.  Because, really, so?

Which Reminds Me

Yes, I remember that we were rather annoyed with Lowry for allying herself with those croooked Italian mafiosi in that she was dating Tony. This gives the mistaken impression that we all would want to date Italian idiots when actually quite the reverse is true, we can hardly wait to get back to the U.S. where we can flush them down the garbage disposal where they belong.

Which Reminds Me

Yes, it is a bit confusing, the clueless Baptist Bells and Reese's pretending to represent anything but their own selfish interests and/or peanut butter cups. These Baptists like to flatter themselves on their own self-important pretensions but we Pentecostals know that true power comes not from our own understanding. I am surprised that anyone would give any credibility to the idiotic blatherings of Lowry. There is really nothing going on in her empty head that would be of any use to anyone. We try to be polite because we have to get along in civil society but I will always be two or three years head of those little brats and no amount of manipulation will ever change this minor point.

Which Reminds Me

Two years at least after college, my aunt mentioned to me having had a conversation with Debbie Tracy. That was surprising to me. I did not know that my aunt and uncle were acquainted with the Tracys. I cannot imagine what they would have had to talk about.

Which Reminds Me

I remember my aunt and uncle mentioning that the swimming coach to Mark Spitz, the famed Olympic champion, lived down the street from them in Mission Viejo. They also had met Mark Spitz when he visited the neighborhood and thought he seemed like a very nice guy. That is the only thing that I can remember about what they said about that. I imagine that my cousins would have a much more detailed description of that than I could possibly provide.

Which Reminds Me

Yes, how many times do I have to again explain that I am not related to Tracy Caulkins, the champion swimmer of Olympic fame? There is no 'u' in my surname, Calkins. Obviously. So I really should not have to explain this point. Again. And again and again and again. This confusion did not arise before Miss Tracy won the Olympic medals but, anyway, it is good that the U.S. was well represented by Miss Caulkins' nautical performance, never mind that she is really not related to me. So I suppose that this name confusion is a small discomfort, only a small price to pay for the glorious success of the U.S. swimming team at the Olympic Games, never mind that I have no connection to that other than a sense of generally shared pride in the Olympic achievements of my own country of birth origin and citizenship. Thank you very much.

Which Reminds Me

I do vaguely remember that someone was somewhat too laboriously an obscure point about the story of the paralytic man who was healed by Jesus after his friends cut a hole in the roof of the house and lowered him through the roof on a mat. Jesus said to him, "Your sins are forgiven."

So some person was saying that obviously no one would do that for a woman paralytic because Jesus might not so easily forgive her for intruding on his privacy that way. 

And then later Jesus said, "Rise, take up your bed and walk." And also that was no woman who could be called upon to take up her own bed of her own volition without a husband to do it for her, someone was saying. 

So obviously Jesus takes these cases on an individual basis and commands differing remedies as required by the particular facts and circumstances of the situation. So? I am not even the person who said that and was not worried about that.