le plus ca change…
January 6, 2007 on 5:58 pm | In masonry, rants | No Commentsabout to head to dinner to conclude a somewhat strange afternoon.
continued our yearly tradition of attending my dad’s lodge installation, this time as his first time not being installed as secretary in 32 years. the installation ceremony was the same as it has been in previous years. the pot luck lunch was wonderful as always. but some things were a little different:
- a latino gentleman was installed as the next position up in the chain towards serving as master of the lodge. he is friendly, gregarious and genuinely likable. to everyone except the member that quit because he thought “spics” didn’t belong in the lodge. in 2007.
- seeing water spurting up at the curb in the front yard, i asked one of the past masters if a water hose had been left running. “no, it’s the sump pump,” he said. “you should see it when the niggers walk by, it really makes ‘em jump!” in 2007.
- on a lighter note, today marked a first for every member of the lodge. the newly installed tyler was apparently shirking his responsibilities, as not once but twice the neighbor’s cat darted in the open lodge front door and open lodge room door, interrupting the service and putting a smile on everyone’s face.
even my own mother, who was born and raised in ohio, described some sort of nut for my nephew, saying “we always called them nigger toes.”
next up is dinner at cracker barrel, long known for firing minorities. who says you can’t go home?
just another day…
January 1, 2007 on 12:01 pm | In masonry, ramblings | No Commentsso, i’m spending my new year’s holiday this year finishing up the parts of my mom’s christmas present that i didn’t get done over the holiday — cleaning the drapes, vacuuming baseboards, cleaning ceiling fans, fixing stuff around the house, and de-christmas-ing in general. i had been invited to go out in chapel hill, but honestly i’ve been having trouble staying up past 9:00 p.m. for the past few weeks anyway.
as it turns out, i had an invitation to come up to richmond and stay with one of my best friends, and it turns out that the person i consider my best friend in raleigh was back in town yesterday, but i didn’t know either of these things until i was already hunkered down in oxford.
next weekend i must come back home for the lodge’s annual installation of officers, and i believe we’ll resume having church services as well. the following weekend i’m supposed to go back up to richmond – something for me.
home for the holidaze
December 23, 2006 on 10:36 pm | In masonry, ramblings | No Commentsi’m following a 3-day sprint of shopping, shaking my fist in traffic and going on various treasure hunts for my parents by lighting firmly in quiet little oxford. five days of enjoying time with my family, saving money and going to bed early. also hopefully finding out what the tenants in our rental house are building on the back side of the house – my dad thinks they wanted a play area for their children, but i think it looks more like a cattle chute. hopefully the city won’t smack their wrists in the form of plundering our wallets.
- the grand lodge of af&am of north carolina has turned over tons of its historical records to the southern historical collection at wilson library. happy cataloging!
- oxford lodge no. 122 now has a fairly elaborate website with a particularly interesting history of said lodge.
- 122’s website also contains a link to the world’s oldest masonic website. and i thought i was going to sleep tonight!
knights templar and history of freemasonry
May 17, 2006 on 9:24 pm | In masonry | 1 Commentthe history channel’s week of cracking the quite cracked davinci code continues. tonight was an hour chronicling the rise and demise of the knights templar, following the script of every templar conspiracy theorist ever to publish a book straight to the barnes and noble bargain bin. they do get props for imaginative depictions of inquisition-era torture and some wonderful shots of the interior of rosslyn.
tomorrow night is a 2-hour special on the history of the freemasons featuring a re-enactment of the murder of hiram abif. all of this reminds me that i need to go see the william r. davie exhibit in the north carolina collection, featuring the mccauley apron he wore to the 1793 cornerstone dedication of old east.
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