tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post3407293543976331706..comments2023-07-01T00:39:39.762-07:00Comments on Father Geoff Farrow: Thanksgiving?Father Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03904564207135202567noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post-67463537853950527272010-11-15T23:51:47.529-08:002010-11-15T23:51:47.529-08:00Hi Father Geoff -
I think this post is great. How...Hi Father Geoff - <br />I think this post is great. However, I also encourage you to consider: who is cooking this meal? In the 'olden times' in the U.S. (pre TV-"dinners," etc.) those cooking the meals were the women, the mothers, the wives. Sexism is implicitly tied into meals and nourishment in the U.S. Not to mention classism: who has time to cook a full meal if you are working two or three jobs?<br />Again, I appreciate your point, but I encourage you to consider the other sides of this issue.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05720629449277087089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post-83659456486396849922010-11-06T09:01:08.540-07:002010-11-06T09:01:08.540-07:00A friend -- I was in his wedding in Iowa a year ag...A friend -- I was in his wedding in Iowa a year ago -- let me know recently that he had received an email that his mother had died. When he came out to his family and left the church ten years ago, his mother told him goodbye and made it clear that she meant goodbye. He never saw or spoke to her again, nor I believe any other family member. He made the painful decision not to attend the funeral because his family apparently made it clear that he would be unwelcome. He and his partner plan to visit the grave and pay their respects in their own way and in their own time.<br /><br />This is a successful young man with a responsible position in DC. You have probably seen him (without knowing it) on TV in the background when the President or others are making public appearances. He is married to a dear friend who is himself a former priest. The family will never know the treasure that their son has brought into the family ambit.<br /><br />My friend plans to journal, to write a letter to his other, no deadline, no rush. But just to say all that he feels and all he was unable to say and/or that she was unable to hear while alive. I hope that now that she is, we pray, in a place of total light and love, she will hear, see and understand with the Love that is not bound by all our human foolishness.Michael Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00942287172727040371noreply@blogger.com