Place to practice organ

Well, the dude from St. Francis has been very forthcoming with help. He told me that my friend, Rhonda, had a key card to the church and there was no reason I couldn’t get one.  I was welcome to come and practice any time the church wasn’t being used. He emailed the office manager to prepare a card for me and let me know when it was ready. He also asked the administrative assistant to copy me in to weekly schedule emails. Wow! In addition he wrote me that he had not forgotten “the amazing kindness” I showed to him as a “stranger’ when he needed a last minute sub 12 years ago when his beloved grandmother died.

Between St. Francis, Hope Church and possibly the Methodist church, it looks like I should be able to keep my chops up when I am without an organ.

Walking in circles

Eileen told me yesterday that she planned to participate in the local march against the nomination of Betsy Devos as Secretary of Education. I told her I would also go. The march was planned from 11 Am to 1:30. We bundled up, stopped by the library which is near by, then joined people walking around Centennial Park. The crowd seem to be growing as time went on. At one point it seemed that the sidewalk around the park was full of people.

I pooped out after about an hour and half. By that time, it was thinning out. Eileen hung on a bit longer but reported that the crowd continue to dwindle. There’s some interesting information about the legality of public demonstrations in the most recent  Counterspin podcast from  Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (fair.org).  Here’s a link to it:

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Inaugural Protest Arrests, David Turnbull on Pipeline Resistance

Here’s a few more links about other stuff.