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Michael McLeod

Thanks MM.

That post reminds me of seeing Paul McCartney being asked what it was like to be famous.

And he said, essentially, that he was still, after all these years, surprised and pleased by the attention. I'll see if I can find the clip, but the way he explained it was by saying something to the effect that he still had a little boy inside who, whenever he made an appearance to speak or perform, was thinking: "No way! All these people came to see me?" 

You can see it in him. He's still a kid. We are drawn to people who still know how to play. 

Michael McLeod

Hey looks like they are getting kicked out of the arena where they are doing the Arizona recount.

Maybe Area 51 is available.

David Mitchell

I think they want to hold it in a safer place - one where there is no risk of getting French's mustard on their hot dogs. Damn Frenchies - why don't they go home?

I hear they are going to consider a new law that you can only be allowed to vote if you use Ketchup. Researchers are working on a plan to be able to deterine that with absenstee ballots. 

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Hi Everyone,

I received a phone call from Mary Kay a short while ago and she would like prayers said for Toni who was found unconscious this morning and is currently in the ICU at St. Ann's Hospital where her heart has apparently stopped several times.  MK will keep me updated and I will share with all of you.  

MM

O God who are the only source of health and healing, the Spirit of calm and the central peace of this universe, grant to Toni such a consciousness of Your indwelling and surrounding presence that she may permit You to give her health and strength and peace, through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Amen.

David Mitchell

I believe Toni did pass away about an hour ago. I just received a text from Peggy Southworth, who got it from Mary Kay.

I feel embarrassed as I had been trying to call her lately and left a voicemail just days ago. It had been way too long since I had called her. 

She has suffered long and deserves her glorious rest. I always thougtht Toni deserved a more rewarding life. In some ways, life sort of left her in the margins, but oh my, what a kind heart she had.  

Peggy Southworth (Townley)

In honor of Toni Cardi, who moved to heaven today, May 8, 2021. 
 

THE BROKEN CHAIN

by Ron Tranmer

We little knew that day, 
God was going to call your name. 
In life we loved you dearly, 
In death, we do the same.

It broke our hearts to lose you.
You did not go alone. 
For part of us went with you,
The day God called you home.

You left us beautiful memories, 
Your love is still our guide. 
And although we cannot see you, 
You are always at our side.

Our family chain is broken, 
And nothing seems the same,
But as God calls us one by one,
The chain will link again

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Yes Dave, I just checked my text from MK as I was not near my phone earlier, and about 10 minutes after I hung up, Toni had passed away. 

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord and let the Perpetual Light shine upon her.  And may her soul and the souls of all of the faithful departed, rest in peace. Amen.  Godspeed Toni.

James Hamilton, M. D.

May God rest Toni in everlasting peace.

Amen.

Jim

Janie Albright (Blank)

So very sad to get the news about Toni! And right when things at her care center were starting to open up and she could have visitors! 
 

Toni was a kind soul who would do anything for anyone. She was also a treasure trove of class news, trivia and memories. We've lost a lot of history! She was instrumental in finding our classmates for our reunions, searching the internet and working the phones trying to get all of your updated cell numbers and internet addresses. 
 

We were lucky to call Toni our friend. May she Rest In Peace. 
 

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Rest in peace, dear Toni.

Julie Carpenter

Rest in peace, Toni. My heart breaks at our loss. But I'm glad her suffering is over.

Jodelle Sims

When I talked to Toni last week she was not in pain.  She talked about getting stronger so she could get out of there. It was difficult for her not having visitors and she complained all the time about the food.
 

Mary Clare Hummer (Bauer)

So sad to read this news this Mother's Day morning. Toni had kind of a Mother Hen quality about her in keeping tabs with and on so many classmates. Her help at reunion time was always invaluable. We will miss you, Toni. 
Clare

Nancy Longenbaker

 Hello Everyone. 
Sorry to hear about Toni. I don't live too far from where she was staying and I think about her every time I go past on 23. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Mary Ann Nolan (Thomas)

"But behind all your stories is your mother's story for hers is where yours begins".

-Mitch Album, For One More Day.

Have a good Mothers and Grandmothers day.

Sheila McCarthy (Gardner)

One of the great blessings of our reunions is the opportunity to make new friendships, and that happened for me and Toni... It's a wonderful feeling to know that Toni Cardi calls you "friend," and I expect that connection to be stronger now than ever. God bless you, Toni, as you are released to the heavenly reward you so richly deserve. We will miss you and keep you in our thoughts ....

Mary Ann Nolan (Thomas)

Sheila McCarthy, 

You missed knowing a very special person. 

David Mitchell

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all you moms.

I bet many of you have been super moms, with wonderful successes with your kids and have lived strong lives through many challenges. 

And I bet each of you had memorable moms too. Many in that group lived through WWI, along with the Spanish Flu epidemic. Then the roaring 20's and the stock market crash, followed by the great Depression, followed by WW2. 

My mom had to move 7 times before the end of grade school. First Columbus (grandpa was Asst. Director of Public Health) - then Minot North Dakota (Head of Public Health dept.) - back to Columbus (medical school, late) - Chicago (Internship) - back to Minot North Dakota (hospital staff physician) - Westbrook Maine (*grandparents ordered them to bring his body back "home") - and finally back to Columbus to start life over with her widowed mom and older sister. 

*(Her dad went back to medical school late in life and then died as a physician on staff in an epidemic in Minot where they had run out of the medicine he needed.) 

She married her high school sweet heart (one of those younger Catholic boys) from back in high school days at North High, and had two little girls. Then in 1943 Dad got a letter (at age 32) from the Department of the Army that began with the words "Greetings". So he had to leave his full-time medical practice and got sent to Salina, Kansas to train as a flight surgeon with the B-29s. There they found a place to live many miles away (in Abilene) with a one-room basement apartment. After training, he left Mom with the girls for about two years to go to India, China, and finally the Pacific Islands (with many 12-hour "side-trips" over Bankok, Singapore, and Tokyo).

(Some years after the War, I arrived on the scene.)

Then this women (who had 7 mis-carriages) faced down one of the toughest adversaries of all - Father George Foley at Our Lady of Peace Church.

And this quiet but strong Methodist woman rose above that challenge too. 

(I bet others in our group have some great Mom's stories)

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Mary Kay asked that I share with everyone that a memorial service is being planned for Toni in 2-3 weeks.  Her obituary should be available in the paper this week.

Kathleen Wintering (Nagy)

Toni was a dear and sweet classmate. May she rest in peace and we will very much  miss seeing her at the next reunion. Kathy W.

John Maxwell

John Jackson

From the Borowitz Report:

Fauci Says Nausea and Splitting Headache Are Symptoms of Talking to Rand Paul

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Anthony Fauci has revealed that nausea and a splitting headache are two common symptoms of talking to Rand Paul.

The esteemed virologist disclosed that he had taken part in a clinical study that required him to converse with the senator from Kentucky several times in a one-year period.

In addition to nausea and headaches, those who come in contact with Paul’s voice may experience “a sensation of wanting to be anywhere but there,” Fauci said.

“After thirty seconds of him talking, bam, it hits you,” he said. “You have to lie down in a dark room someplace.”

To avoid these symptoms, Fauci recommended social distancing from Paul “as much as possible.”

The virologist said that he deserved no special credit for subjecting himself to the Rand Paul experiment. “I was just doing my job as a scientist,” he said. “I talked to Rand Paul so that the American people wouldn’t have to.”

David Mitchell

And I guess the Rand Paul autographed face masks arent selling all that well. Actually, I'm not sure they were ever available in the first place.

David Mitchell

I was thinkig we need some music - somethting appropriate for today.

Earlier today the GOP made it's shift from the "Republican Party" to the new and updated "Kevin McCarthy Party for Cowards, Liars, and Circus Clowns".

Yup. that's my Party - or I used to think so. So I am dedicating this to a lady from Wyoming with more balls that any ten "male" members of the "party".

Michael McLeod

A late mother's day observation:

As children we had a window of motherhood unlike any other.

Our mothers raised us at a time when stay at home moms remained a tradition. In that respect they were like generations of mothers before them.

But unlike those mothers, they had access to a range of modern conveniences that made the arduous tasks of motherhood - cooking, cleaning, child-rearing, etc., far easier than before. All that chicken-plucking and scrubbing dishes and clothes down by the crick was a thing of the past.

And they raised us before women's lib and women in the workplace and two working parents becoming customary - so we had all their attention.

We were, as a generation, products of a chapter of motherhood unlike any other - a blessed window when modern convenience for mothers peaked -- just before social and economic changes made stay at home moms a luxury rather than a given. 

I'm sure I am not the first to make that observation and maybe you guys figured it out before I did - it was mentioned in a conversation I had with a woman years ago, and up until that point it had never occurred to me and I felt a little guilty, having taken the kind of care and attention that my three sisters and I enjoyed somewhat for granted.

My mother was astonishing as a homemaker and beyond. The individual attention we got as children was remarkable. I doubt I'd have been a writer if she hadn't seen that love of words in me and fostered it.