tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post5371535377743603211..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: The gift of wordsJohan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-8046803534611714272016-12-25T14:30:08.289-08:002016-12-25T14:30:08.289-08:00Thank you, David and Mindful.
Let's keep gett...Thank you, David and Mindful.<br /><br />Let's keep getting the Word out in this uncertain season!Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-3344387242718223172016-12-23T06:03:03.198-08:002016-12-23T06:03:03.198-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.David H. Finkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07817925960778922467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-83439014005573420732016-12-23T05:59:03.332-08:002016-12-23T05:59:03.332-08:00This old (retired) printer resonated with the earl...This old (retired) printer resonated with the early joy of efficiently putting reproducible ink on paper. After 40 years with Omega Graphics in Chicago IL and Columbia MO I've finally written "Finis" to that priductive and satisfying chapter of my life, and "R.I.P." to a succession of sturdy old Multilith 1250 and 1250LW presses. (The big guys called them merely "duplicators.") My last one now has a home in Columbia -- free for the careful hauling -- with the nascent "Midwest Graphics Collective. <br /><br />I'm glad, Dear Johan, that we share a love of words and seek good ways to share them. <br />Greetings at the season when we celebrate "The Word made flesh," coming to dwell among us: Emanuel! And as Quakers celebrating the ever-Present gift of God's Holy Spirit. <br /><br /> Warmly, In Christ, -DHF <br />David H. Finkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07817925960778922467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-72363693798633321502016-12-23T04:51:11.655-08:002016-12-23T04:51:11.655-08:00I, too, had one of those toy printing presses as a...I, too, had one of those toy printing presses as a child and loved using it. I had forgotten all about it until I read your post and saw the picture of one just like mine. That led to a job in high school of setting type to print flyers for a little commercial print company that was an adjunct of our town's weekly newspaper. Thanks for rekindling that memory for me! Merry Christmas.Mindful Searcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16846738386766904946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-40910519528968799152016-12-23T02:57:13.755-08:002016-12-23T02:57:13.755-08:00So many examples come to my mind of Arthur Roberts...So many examples come to my mind of Arthur Roberts pushing against useless vanities and inhibitions! He once smilingly posed a dialectical challenge to elitism by sticking up for sanctified mediocrity! (I don't think he actually seriously advocated mediocrity, but he was certainly poking a stick at pretentiousness.) If I remember right, he once wrote a book review gently accusing Douglas Steere of name-dropping.<br /><br />My very first experience of Arthur was as a twenty-something staffer at Friends United Meeting, invited to co-lead a retreat on worship with Arthur Roberts at Quaker Hill Conference Center. He presented sessions on public worship and I focused on personal devotion. I probably overprepared in my nervousness at this public debut, but Arthur was the very embodiment of wise reassurance.Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-14082431339521668002016-12-22T20:03:05.415-08:002016-12-22T20:03:05.415-08:00Thanks for the news about Arthur Roberts. One fav...Thanks for the news about Arthur Roberts. One favorite memory -- in the 60's he had invited me out from my teaching at an Ohio college to be a visiting Quaker scholar. I was surprised and honored at the invitation, but was a bit apprehensive how he would take my change in appearance. In line with the times, I had grown a rather modest moustache and goatee -- how would this teacher at an evangelical Quaker institution react? Arthur drove from Newberg to PDX to meet the plane -- he was sporting a full, flowing beard!<br /><br />VailAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com