Which Reminds Me

Yes, there seems to be an ongoing debate over possible translations for the word "riachuelos," which means a small type of river, a rivulet or stream or brook. Although any of these options are workable, rivulets being probably the most literal, I see that many are campaigning for the word "brooks," although, I don't know why I am turned off by the thought of using such a cutesy-puke and tritely overdone word, perhaps only because your surname happens to be "Brooks" or similar. How useless would it be for me to campaign against the modern omission of the word "calkins" which was an attachment to a horseshoe, a certain type of horseshoe, but which is no longer in usage or common circulation one might say? I don't know why this matters, but certainly we are not the only surname not now found in commonplace usage. Needless to say.

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Yes, I probably should mention that Mrs. Starin was the director of our girls' choir during 9th grade.  Not Laura Starin, her name was Mrs. Leesa Starin, or at least that is what was printed in the high school yearbook. Her husband Richard Starin was also a teacher at the school, her son in my ninth grade class, and I seem to think that they were from California, not New York. However, the Starins left after ninth grade so did not learn much about them beyond that.

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Yes, I vaguely remember Melanie, a sad case of a pathetic horrible life, one of my mother's projects, we feel so sorry for pathetic Melanie, we try to be nice. My mother is always trying to help these difficult people, but fortunately chatterbox Melanie is gone now so we no longer have to listen to her constant yappety-yap blah blah blah. Needless to say.

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Yes, I noticed that you are still endeavoring to install some type of slave master, as if I needed that. This is a free country where one has no need of a pompous arrogant rich person to dictate how I would have to vote and other things. Needless to say,

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Yes, it sort of appears that Hugh Calkins was the common ancestor of most of the Calkins in America, although I don't know, perhaps there could be some others that came in some other way, Anyway, Hugh had two sons, David and John. We are descended from John but there are other Calkins probably out there who are descended from David, even though not us. And what of that? Probably lots of Americans have some Calkins in them, myself being only one example of that, as the genealogical records show. Even so, we are not going to carry this to the extent of Chinese ancestor worship. Enough.

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Yes, we so much admire these technology millionaires who are simplifying our lives with the invention of computers and other related things that make our lives so much easier. I am sure there are many well-trained professionals specializing in the area of nonprofits who can be hired by them to advise them on how best to distribute their money in ways that are compatible with their own social and political and religious agendas while at the same time maintaining high ethical and legal standards. Myself not being among those nonprofit professionals who would ever have the credentials required or desire to be in that nonprofit applicant pool, I really do not feel any need to comment further on topics of this nature. I somehow doubt that, speaking on a personal level, our agendas would coincide on various sticky points, needless to say.

Which Reminds You

Yes, I vaguely remember during my first year of college at Evangel, at one of the churches I was attending on a Sunday, I don't remember which one, there was a rousing congregational rendition of that song, "The Lion of Judah shall break every chain and give to us the victory again and again..." I liked that song. Why is not heard anymore? Why is there no good recording of it? The permutations on Youtube are not as good as what I remembered.