[stylist] believing the unbelievable

Tue Aug 4 16:22:12 UTC 2015

Bill,
How nice to get a chatty e-mail from you. As for your questions about
Africa, We were in East Africa, specifically, Tororo, Uganda. My husband had
a two-year contract with USAID which dealt with aid for developing
countries. It was extended by two-year segments, until the third one, when
we signed for just one year because of Idi Amin's terror tactics throughout
the country. We got our two oldest boys back from boarding school in Kenya
and got out in time.
I have at least three poems which might interest you. One about my zebra
drum, one about my African Xylophone, and one about the Ruwenzori climb. The
last was condensed from an entire chapter in my proposed book, "Lizard in
the Bean sauce.
Incidentally, I have just written two new poems, both Ars Poetica, which you
inspired in your introductions to two of your poems. In one, you mentioned
being playful, and my otter-hood, and in the other you spoke of broken bones
and a hip replacement for one of your poems. That was enough to put me into
a frenzy of writing.
I will not attach them just now do to the many remaining e-mails I have to
comment, or to read the first time. 
I did not critique your fiction story due to lack of knowledge and the time
required for me to research all the words and terms, and my lack of good
critiquing skills in the fiction genre. 

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L
Houts via stylist
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Subject: Re: [stylist] believing the unbelievable

HI Jackie,

You are very kind, as always.  And I would like very much to hear more 
about your African adventures.  I'm sure I have much to learn from you, 
especially regarding these experiences.  Which nation did you visit?  
Was it as part of the Peace Corps or Mercycorps or one of those agencies?

--Bill

On 8/2/2015 3:32 PM, Jackie Williams via stylist wrote:
> Bill,
> I really like this response. So honest and refreshing.
> It makes me think of my days in Africa when my pragmatic houseboy was a
> professed Christian, but always went to the medicine man as well. It was
> like double indemnity. He made out pretty well working both sides of the
> fence. He was as smart as a crow.  (I do not visualize a whip as being
> smart.)
>
>
> Jackie Lee
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz	
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L
> Houts via stylist
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 10:37 AM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Cc: William L Houts
> Subject: Re: [stylist] believing the unbelievable
>
>
> HI Debby,
>
> Although I'm mostly an ex-Catholic, I keep mysaints around for backup.
> Especially, I sometimes pray to Saint Thomas More, the lawyer saint, to
> get me out of scrapes and to intervene on my behalf when I'm too
> embarrassed to go to Mother Mary for stuff.  I'm fairly well convinced
> that the saints have always been provided as a kind of backup network
> when the pagan gods were kicked to the curb.  Even when I was
> practicing, though, I still looked upon springtime as the season of the
> Goddess, and now, having quit the Church, I still go into my old church,
> Saint James Cathedral in Seattle, and visit with the saints and take in
> a breath or two of incense. But nowadays I think of God as the sapient
> ocean through whom we swim, so I'm a kind of religious juggling act,
> practicing five or six relgiosities dpending upon my mood, what time I
> got out of bed that morning, and other such variables. Mostly, though, I
> just maintain an attitude of gratitude for my friends and family, for
> the fact that that, on these hot summer days I can easily grab a bottle
> of icy cold water from our ice box when there are many others in our
> world who have to hike 20 miles in 115 degree heat to fill a 20 pound
> bucket of lukewarm water for their family, and for the fact that I can
> rise late on Sunday morning to write this pleasant email to my distant
> friend Debby and all of our smart gifted friends.  As I recently said in
> a recent FB post, we are emperors.
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
>
> On 8/2/2015 9:43 AM, Debby Phillips via stylist wrote:
>> Well, okay, I am probably going to be the naysayer here.  I don't
>> disbblieve that things can happen.  I'm sure there are spirits.  But
>> there is only one Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is quite of the
>> Trinity.  Part of God.  There are other spirits, there is Satan,
>> (father of lies).  There are powerful forces, spirits, (angels).  As a
>> charismatic Catholic, I have seen and experienced some interesting
>> things.  But I do not believe that all these spirits are good.  There
>> is a definite Evil that lurks in the world.  I have experienced that
>> evil.  I have also experienced God's angels overpowering that evil.
>> As a Catholic, I also believe in the Communion of saints-that is,
>> asking for prayer from the saints.  I also know that you can find
>> writings, books, etc.  that will tell you that the Catholic Church is
>> evil because of this or that.  I wouldn't have said anything, but I
>> feel that Christianity has been maligned.  We didn't make up stuff,
>> twist things around to suit ourselves, or anything of the sort.  You
>> have the right to believe that, but to state it as truth is
>> questionable.  Lucifer "the angel of light" really is the angel of
>> darkness-he only wants people to think that they are walking in the
>> light.     Debby
>>
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