The scripture in the lectionary was that reading in Luke where Jesus is 12 and he gets lost. OK, he doesn't think he's lost. Mary and Joseph think he's visiting other relatives, and travel a day before realizing he's not with the other travelers. Frantic, they return to Jerusalem and look all over for three days before finally finding him in the temple. Jesus says, "Yeesh, mom and dad, you should have KNOWN where I'd be." I always thought he was a little impudent. On the other hand, if they were in fact visited by angels before Jesus was born, maybe he had a point.
So my questions:
1. Have you ever been lost as a child?
I was at Ross Park Zoo in Binghamton, NY when I was four or five, maybe six. There were these huge culverts though the park and I wanted to know where they went. I got to the end, or at least as far as I wanted to go, and I came back. *I* didn't think I was lost; I knew exactly how to get back. But my parents thought I was lost. I vaguely recall their combination of relief and anger.
2. Have you ever lost a child?
Well, no, but I have thought from time to time that I had. Lydia has this annoying habit of hiding, and she's pretty good at it, too. So there have been a few times I Thought she was MIA, but fortunately, she was not.
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And speaking of lost, we lost Chas. Balun, horror film expert, a funny, irreverent, and generally nice bear of a man, to cancer at the age of 61. I started dealing with Chas. in my FantaCo days in the early 1980s when Tom Skulan came across one of his publications and we started it sell it. Later we were putting out the magazine he edited, Deep Red, and eventually we published books he authored, such as Horror Holocaust (1986) and The Gore Score (1987). My dealing with him as the person in charge of the mail order, I'd talk to him about the prosaic issue of how the items were selling. We always seemed to find some amicable banter, primarily about music.
Steve Bissette wrote a nice piece about Chas.
ROG
2 comments:
1. I am not sure if I have ever been lost as a child. Very likely I was, but I blocked it from my memory, cause, you know, it was just so painful. :-)
2. Yes! Last year we went down Christmas Tree Lane, which is a three mile street, called Van Ness, here in Fresno, with stately homes, and beautiful, mature landscaping in which every home every year at Xmas time is decked out in celebration of the season, and in which the city strews lights across the tall stately trees creating a canopy of lights. It is a popular draw, and in the huge crowd that was walking the lane that day we lost my eldest son Ethan. The worse stuff goes through your mind during such times. We found him after about 15 very long minutes.
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