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Church: Nursery Leader |
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Dear musical friend Paul Dredge replaced me at the helm of the Asian Branch. He’d had extensive Asian experience—Korean, in his case—and so this calling didn’t represent nearly so wrenching a transition for him as mine had for me. No Eliot quotes cropped up in this calling interview, I presume.
Under his administration, the Church built a new chapel in Revere, where many branch members resided, and my beloved Asians now had a normal, local, Church-owned place of worship that didn’t require any yellow school buses to get them there. |
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Our bishop decided, kindly and mercifully, that after the stresses* of the last couple of years, it was time to take off some of the pressure (both for me and for Valerie) and let me re-establish my bona fides as a member of the One True Ward. Or at least so I infer from my next assignment: Assistant Nursery Leader in the Arlington Ward.
Aside from 28 years’ experience as a peripatetic (and too-often absentee) parent—during which, I must confess, Valerie bore the bulk of the burdens—my résumé didn’t reveal any particular qualifications, but I did develop a lot of affection for this particular group of kids of other people. Some of them may still recall that I was pretty good at taking them on my lap and reciting, bouncingly: Trot, trot to BostonA bunch of years later, one beneficiary(?) of this profound bit of pedagogical interaction, by then several inches taller than I and decked out in a Marine uniform, did indeed recall it, with what I interpreted as pleasure.
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