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Charles tells me a woman in orange is waiting for me. I anticipate and am right. I know her from
work around the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing. And SPSA. And
Westside Campaign Against Hunger. She’s from a Hindu sect that sponsors a
women’s homeless shelter nearby. She knows we housed people during Occupy and
is hoping we can take some of her women one night a week. Makes me a little
nervous, but….I ask her to write me up a proposal to share with my Session.
We’ll consider it. As long as they’ve got someone for sleepover, well, it could
work…
ETHEL is hard at work in the Sanctuary. Ralph is auditioning a
new violin player.
Pat O want to show me the construction work being done in the
chapel. The old closet, actually once the office of the Gray Panthers and later
West Side Peace Action, has been removed as well as the small attic. Many
things have been revealed. The workers
have not recognized the large, long
wooden boxes as actually bass organ pipes. I show Pat parts of the pipe that
can be tuned to adjust the sound. Years ago, when I saw the pipes, I thought they had never been installed, like so many other incomplete projects at
West-Park. But when Austin Organ reps came to examine our organ, they found
that eccentric organist Allan Van Zoeren had actually removed the pipes to
change the sound, making it his creation in 1954. Van Zoeren would ultimately move to Portland, Oregon and
found his own internationally famous organ company, yet one more
West-Park/Portland connection.
And then, for the first time in six years I saw the wooden cross
candle holders from the sanctuary, the candle holders that were used to
dramatically and romantically light the sanctuary during the Christmas season.
Just in time for Twelfth Night and Epiphany. Next year, for sure….
Late in the day, it’ getting colder, Dion drops by to say Hi. His time at his old place has finally ended. And he will do anything to help. Dion
is one of those truly good people. Way will come, as the Quakers say.
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