Horton Foote - Farewell

Horton Foote writes

I was born Tuesday, March 14, 1916, in a rented room in the town of Wharton, Texas. The Wharton Spectator, founded by two of my great-uncles, printed the following item on Friday, March 18, 1916:

Mr. and Mrs. Horton Foote were the proud parents of a son born Tuesday.

Horton Foote Dies

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2009/03/voices----horto.html
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/03/remembering-hor.html
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/007368.html
http://www.cunepress.com/cunepress/booksonline/essays/etg/etg-pages/e-q/foote.htm
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/horton_foote/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/theater/05foote.html?_r=1
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"But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos." -- Horton Foote

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I cannot remember who told me (years ago) about meeting Horton Foote and what a Gentleman he was. Of course, I know what a great playwright/writer he was and so loved his works. But there was something about the man that typified Dignity as well as talent. So, although I did not know him personally, I knew his writing and felt as though I knew him - and I will miss him. Most certainly we will all miss his talent.

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Extract from New York Times article (URL above):

...Mr. Foote spent most of his life writing about such people. In more than 60 plays and films, most set in the fictive town of Harrison, Tex., he charted their struggle through the century by recording their familial conflicts.
He often seemed to resemble a character from one of his plays. Always courteous and courtly, he spoke with a Texas drawl. He enjoyed good food and wine, but he usually opted for barbecue and iced tea or fried chicken with a Coca-Cola when he was home in Texas. He was jovial with a wry humor, and his white hair and robust frame gave him the appearance of a Southern senator or the favorite uncle who always had a story. Harper Lee, a lifelong friend since Mr. Foote adapted her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” once said that Mr. Foote “looked like God, only cleanshaven.”

Praying for rain

Sunday forecast:

"chance of storms"

sure hope that happens.

Rain - come!Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me

by Mary Oliver

Last night

the rain

spoke to me

slowly, saying, what joy

to come falling

out of the brisk cloud, to be happy again

in a new way

on the earth! That’s what it said

as it dropped, smelling of iron, and vanished

like a dream of the ocean

into the branches

and the grass below.

Then it was over.

The sky cleared.

I was standing

under a tree.

The tree was a tree

with happy leaves, and I was myself, and there were stars in the sky

that were also themselves

at the moment

at which moment

my right hand

was holding my left hand

which was holding the tree

which was filled with stars

and the soft rain –imagine! imagine! the long and wondrous journeys

still to be ours.

Lenten Service at Wesley Harper Methodist Church

Worship Leaders
Rev. Linda Montgomery, First United Methodist Church

Rev. Charles Purnell, Jr., Wesley Harper United Methodist Church

Rev. Isidro E. Pina, La Trinidad United Methodist Church

Rev. Teresa Pena, First United Methodist Church

Rev. Patricia Jentsch, First United Methodist Church

The Message

Rev. Steve Purdy, First United Methodist Church

"Breathe"

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Affirmation of Faith

I believe in God the Father Almighty,

maker of heaven and earth;

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord;

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

born of the Virgin Mary,

suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, dead, and buried,

the third day he rose from the dead;

he ascended into heaven,

and sittith at the right hand of God

the Father Almighty;

from thence he shall come to judge

the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the holy catholic church,

the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body,

and the life everylasting.

Amen.

Justice Center Renovation Beginning!

The price tag for the Justice Center Building in the old Economy Furniture Building is $7.9 million and work has begun. Well, at least the fence has been erected and work will soon commence. Long overdue (in this Seguinite's opinion).

The work should take about 12 months, according to architect Lindsay Thorne of Thorne and Graves Architects.

There will not be an increase in taxes for the citizens of Seguin for this monumental project. Good news in bad economic times.

We have lived in Seguin for almost eleven years and if memory serves (which isn't always the case!), that building has always been empty except for Pickett's Fine Art & Frame Shop. Things are looking up in Seguin!

I love a good mystery

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

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The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey

page 9: "The Billy Goat was more cave than tavern and everything Royko and Belushi ever made it out to be. Four sets of Greek eyes watched as we walked through the door." [2 sentences - short - spare - Raymond 'Chanderlish'

page 149: "Sunlight cut across the living room, found my eyelids, and pried them open." [I know, I know: I didn't strictly follow the instructions - but also didn't give away any of this excellent mystery

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Author Michael Harvey is the creator of the television series Cold Case Files. I look forward to his next novel!