I went and saw my father and then thereafter I was going to just go to the small chapel there but I wished to go to a mass of some sort I ended up at two and thereafter I just came home as all seemed to be all covered.
This elder lady seemed to want to know more of whom I was, I explained it generally. I was looking for someone within the congregation that would allow me to take a picture while the mass was taking place and she said takes as many as you want.
She smiles and seemed to be one along with three others that was very wise - yet I got it again even during Easter Mass - "Who are you". I told her I am really just an ordinary guy that is likes to write on cultures and ethnicity and all. I am not sure that she bought it as she said you have a manner about you that is different. Well, I am not an ego centric person, I am just whom I am, I went off during the to another church and then came home as everything is closed today. Everything some traditions still are maintained it seems. Which I feel is a rather good thing.
Her face has such character! There are a lot of stories there!
ReplyDeleteI was back up in my hometown in New Jersey during the 90's and loved the different cuisines and festivals. I spent 8 months in 2005 up in Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn which was nice enough but Charleston has been my family's home since the 1700's and has my heart. Gonna take classes for digital camera and also camcorder if possible this summer.
ReplyDeleteShe must have been about 70 something I am sure she did. But she never stopped smiling - a good thing.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun and the people you meet with it, however on days like this it's delicate it doing this. I was in my suit and I was entirely honest with what I was doing. Ironically she took my camera as I know this one spanish friend from earlier when I lived here and it did not load but I don't carry this as much as I used to but since the amount of things that did come back to me when my father nearly died last week I felt I would chorno some of the things from my vantage. I have never been to a church in Brooklyn but not kidding I was asked to be an usher one Sunday at St. Pat's.
ReplyDeleteWish I had a camera then!
And that was a good thing...the "smile" that made everything right.Thanks for sharing.:))
ReplyDeleteI was around the corner from where Pope John Paul II got out of the popemobile when he visited NYC! Did you see the mob at his visit? lol
ReplyDeleteShe looks like a nice sweet old woman. Happy Easter.
ReplyDeleteProbably a rather unusual request, to photograph a mass or those attending a mass---unless of course the Pope or some other celebrity of the clergy were performing the ceremony.
ReplyDeleteHow nice that she trusted your intent enough to allow you to photograph her. Your "manner' must have been reassuring--if "different." *smile*
It is really interesting to visit you here with your daily photo-journaling, Jack. Keep it up! Feels as if we are going through the day with you--to an extent.
Hope the week brings good improvement for your father and all continues to be reasonably calm for you.
lol! Now.. there's a gal.. that's gonna easily live to be 100!
ReplyDeleteNo at that time I was living in Canada thereafter returning. Aside of St. Joesph's Basilica I have never seen anything of the like of St. Patricks. An amazing place everyday how people just go there for a lunch break along with tourists. Yet it's entirely huge and breathtaking.
ReplyDeleteHe is well - I saw him once this morning and some relatives had come up and I knew that my mother along with my sister would be able to meet with him so I went out with my own cousin for a walk tonight as it's cloudy but with a hue of orange and the day turned out to be one that was good all in all.
ReplyDeleteNo GA, I have had this before but we will leave that lol - Happy Easter to ya.
hahaha - I think so! :)
ReplyDeleteHey! I did not see ya - Happy Easter Sunday!
ReplyDeleteSame to you Carlos...
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