May flights of Angels....

Apr 19, 2009 20:14

...armed with flasks of whiskey....

This man, this Monk, was a family friend, and was one of many wonderful influences on my development of faith as a child. He also ran the mission room at St. John's, and gave my mom a barrel full of dress-up clothes that we used as fairy costumes (it wasn't until I was grown that my mother informed me that they ( Read more... )

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memoo April 20 2009, 20:37:25 UTC
God bless him -- sounds like a very cool guy.

But, may I ask:

Where on earth did a monk get a "barrel-full" of negliges?!? that has me seriously rotfl.

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haha! eltanin April 21 2009, 00:59:28 UTC
He worked for the mission room, and they received donations from all sorts. Apparently someone donated all of their sexy sleep wear. The barrel part is because a lot of things were stored in old powdered bleach barrels (probably from the monastery laundry service). I still have a couple of them.

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