Last week I took a little urban, or rather, suburban bike ride in West St. Paul. I paused for a break at our church’s prayer labyrinth and new columbarium. In this photo you can see the boxy 2008 addition to the office section of the church. Off to the left around the corner is the addition to the fellowship hall and classrooms.
Here is the columbarium where there are many plots available for church members. Apparently, there is not a single cemetery within West St. Paul.
Hamilton the musical won 11 Tony awards this week after being nominated in a record 15 categories. The Producers still has the most wins at 12 but it probably all depends on what the competition is in a particular year. The book writer / composer / lyricist / lead actor, Lin-Manuel is a creative genius. I highly recommend that everyone see Hamilton when it eventually comes out on tour. To borrow the words of the character Aaron Burr, this show is inimitable; it is an original. Full disclosure: I haven’t seen the show but have listened to the soundtrack a lot.
The cast performed one of their numbers during the award show but left out the muskets out of respect for the mass shooting that took place in Orlando the night before.
Mom, here is the Kung Pao chicken I told you I was going to make for dinner. You are seeing quartered Brussel’s sprouts as the green vegetable.
Here it is plated with some California, Japanese-style rice.
Nigel being hoisted up.
On Memorial Day we took our traditional walk through the two cemeteries down 15th Avenue from our house.
Of course yesterday was Flag Day so these pictures are not so out of date. I see the date on this stone is 1918 . . . I recently watched a five part TV documentary on World War I with a lot of new video footage that had been colorized. It was pretty good and reminded me of the the fact that the rulers of Russia, England, and Germany were all fairly close cousins.
Let’s all pray our country gets through this election season in one piece.
Sue had her absolute last day of the year of school yesterday. I served her a gin and tonic when she got home. Peace out.
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