[Oe List ...] Reflecting

[Sharon Fisher]

Mary,

Thanks for sharing your reflections on your year. As a friend of Martha
"Sky" Dempster for many years, I appreciate you remembering her. She spoke
kindly of you.

Be well,
Sharon


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On Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 7:25 PM Richard Alton via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Thanks, Dick
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM mary hampton via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> A Year
>>
>> August 1 I will be 76 years old,  I reflect on this turning.
>>
>> In June we had a different vacation.  We took a Viking river cruise on
>> the River Elba.  WE started with two days in Prague, then 5 days on the
>> river and 2 days in Berlin.  It was a more pampered way than we have
>> travelled with tours every day, excellent meals and drinks included.  I
>> wondered if I would have had the endurance for a longer cruise.  We
>> followed this with 10 days in England.  Highlighted more touring by
>> train, staying with Stuart’s sister, Brenda and visiting His brother
>> Malcolm.  I also met and immediately bonded with Quaker, Bill M – we are
>> both penpals of Joseph on Texas Death Row.
>>
>> One of my favorite actions in England is to visit the multiple small
>> thrift shops.  (Every charity from Air Ambulances to P.E.T.A. seems to
>> have one in every local High Street.)  After shopping in some on our day
>> train trips and having a longer wander in Watford High Street I observed my
>> purchases:  assorted Knick knacks for gifts, 3 blue handkerchiefs, a
>> blue dress, blue blouse and blue, print skirt.  I do not do this
>> consciously.  I have worn them all since I got home.  One young woman at
>> Meeting affirms “Blue is good on you.”  Without my asking.
>>
>> I just read *Iron Boy* by David Marshall.  So did Stuart.  When I talked
>> to our daughter Lis, so did she.  I remember many years ago being asked
>> if I grew up in the Order.   “Yes, but I was 20 when I came.”   A world
>> of difference in being 20 and deciding and 6 and told this is where we live.
>> Thank you, David.
>>
>> In February the State of Texas executed my friend of 16 years, Richard
>> Tabler.  When we were travelling, I learned of the death of Martha (SKY)
>> Dempster.  Martha was my college roommate, invited me to RSI, and was my
>> bridesmaid.  It has been ten years since we talked; a loss.  I also lost
>> Donna S, a dance instructor here in Austin.  Then 130+ died in floods
>> between the Texas Hill Country and Travis County where live.
>>
>> In the midst of life, you know.  My year has been given to activity
>> familiar with the exceptions being the last two months.  Being Quaker,
>> Religious Society of Friends.  My shorthand definition “Go cheerfully
>> through the earth responding to that of God in everyone.”  Some of that
>> translates into direct care; I am currently clerk of Care and Counsel, our
>> local pastoral care committee.   Death Row and other prison visits are
>> important to me.
>>
>> I dance. This one of my communities meets twice a week for choreographed
>> play,  I continue to keep an art journal—now on Volume 6.   We are lucky
>> enough to live an hour or less from our children, Elisabeth and Christopher
>> and from our grandchildren.  LIFE IS GOOD.
>>
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