JOEL BULLOCK

Jan 1, 1936 - Jul 13 2000

Ellie

Aunt Joel died yesterday afternoon after a long struggle against 
infection following the perforated appendix. Hugh and David watched over 
her care and Jack stayed in close contact from Paris. The love we share 
as a family continues as she exits this life and enters the unknown.

Paul Clayton

She was a uniquely accepting person who seemed to 
always have a happy outlook on life, no matter what burdens fell on her.

Rob Clayton

Oh no, what a heartbreak. You are so right about her, Paul. She was a nurturer.

Mark Clayton

A generous and loving spirit. 

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Dear Sally,


Unfortunately Joel could not recover from the side effects of her ruptured appendix. Her body and her doctors made valiant efforts but the infections could not be controlled. One of the few things her son was able to hear her say during the two weeks she was in the ICU was, 'I want to go home.' I think perhaps she may have been saying that she was tired of the fight and just wanted to continue her journey to her Eternal Home.

So she stepped through the door that was opened to her and was welcomed into the Everlasting Arms. 

We Are Blessed, ellie

MY BROTHER

Hugh Roy Babylon and his grandson Brandon Herzog

INTO THE WOODS

https://worshipsongsonline.com/2016/09/27/music-and-message/

Composer/Arranger - John Purifoy

Pisgah National Forest
Headwaters of the French Broad

Here is a hymn that captures the the trauma and release experienced by Jesus as he entered the woods and meditated before he faced his enemies.

In our own ways we enter the woods with our concerns and find comfort and strength. 

This performance combines two Hymns. After the first verse of "Into the Woods" the choir sings "Tis Midnight and On Olive's Brow" before singing the second verse of "Into the Woods." 

Click on yellow link to listen to hymn.

Into the woods my Master went

by Sidney Lanier, 1842 - 1881

"Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent.
Into the woods my Master came,
Forspent with love and shame.
But the olives they were not blind to Him,
The little gray leaves were kind to Him:
The thorn-tree had a mind to Him
When into the woods He came.
 
Out of the woods my Master went,
And He was well content.
Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last
When out of the woods He came."

Tis midnight and on Olive's brow

by William B Tappan, 1794-1849

"Tis midnight, and on Olive's brow
The star is dimmed that lately shone;
'Tis midnight in the garden now,
The suff'ring Savior prays alone.

'Tis midnight, and from all removed,
The Savior wrestles lone with fears-
E'en that disciple whom He loved
Heeds not his Master's grief and tears.

'Tis midnight, and for other's guilt
The Man of Sorrows weeps in blood;
Yet He that hath in anguish knelt
Is not forsaken by His God.

'Tis midnight, and from heavenly plains
Is borne the song that angels know
Unheard by mortals are the strains
That sweetly soothe the Savior's woe."

SHADY GROVE

Shady Grove
Doc Watson

WINDOWS COMPUTER

I've been thinking that I should fire up Larry's old Windows computer to use with Zoom. So today was the day to accept the challenge. First to turn it on, where is the button to push, why doesn't it work? Somehow I checked enough connections and satisfied its demands and it responded. This is a used CPU that Larry bought for $100. I think he wanted to see if there was anything he could do with Microsoft that he could not do with his various Linux implementations. It was another toy to play with. When Windows 10 came out Mary convinced him that he would like it. It seemed fine for a while then the machine got really cranky. I ignored his pleas for help in getting it repaired. When Mark came to visit, Larry got him to help him take it to the repair shop. Success! They added memory and the system was up and running.

 

I think Larry mainly used it to listen to music with his earphones.

 

Here it is 2020 with corona virus and Zoom meetings. I don't have enough Linux skills to use Zoom on my computer so I use my cell phone as a substitute, but the video leaves much to be desired.

 

So I managed to set up the old windows machine without thinking it through. Now I realize that the relic does not have a camera or a speaker. I may be able to see the Zoom participants full size which would be nice, and I may be able to hear them with earphones. We shall see. I was more fun when Larry and I could work out these things together.   

AIR

Gates of Paradise

Does he look familiar?

ARLINGTON 1980

Arlington 1980

I posted this as a comment to a post in William Blake: Religion and Psychology in 2015.

Larry got into computers and William Blake around the same time. Exciting days there were when we were living in Arlington and going to the Church of the Savior in Washington DC. He was entirely dependent on print material for studying Blake. Access to good libraries in the metro area made it possible. The books he purchased in those days furnish many of the quotes I use in blogging today. I see that we purchased FEARFUL SYMMETRY at YES! bookstore in Georgetown in Dec. 1980.

(The following month Larry acquired the other necessity for studying Blake at that time:
BLAKE Complete Writings by Geoffrey Keynes. YES! was the source once again.)

The primitive computers we had in those early days would not have been any help. We had neither random access to stored data, nor search engines or the internet. I'm grateful for the ability to study Blake with tremendous assistance from digital resources.