Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:18 AM All these reflections on the long walks of yesterday reminded me of one of the gifts I took from my years with the...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:36 AM Companions, The story that Richard Lowe recounts of losing his 3 front teeth in the water of Lexington dam reminded me of...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:08 PM Bob (Gannon) & Morey, My guess is that you both made it to "Smeed's Mills." There was a related destination called "Smeed's...
Saturday, August 2, 2008 10:49 AM Dear Brothers, I recall walking a few times the long way to villa up Black Road past the haunted house. Someone told stories...
Saturday, August 2, 2008 11:08 AM Brethren, I guess that no one on this list was with me on that 65 mile hike in 2nd Year Theology at Alma over the pass in...
Saturday, August 2, 2008 12:16 PM Morey, You took some very long hikes over the past years. Your accounts reminded me that a few of us took a very long walk...
Saturday, August 2, 2008 2:19 PM John, This reminds me of another hike from Applegate to the Colfax area where we were planning a nice outdoor meal with...
Saturday, August 2, 2008 8:05 PM Morey: Didnt know that. You read more widely than I do. And you constantly surprise me! Admire your reminiscences of walking...
Saturday, August 2, 2008 8:24 PM I have many adventures during hikes as a Jesuit. Father Bob Griffin and I almost died of heat exhaustion as we came out of the...
Monday, August 4, 2008 12:18 PM Sharing in Long Walks from NEN wouldnt mean much, but the scholastics climb of Mt. Fuji in the mid 1950s might, because of Bob...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 9:09 PM On one of our novitiate long walks in my first year, a group of us ascended to Umunhum. Naughty novices we were ! There was a...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 5:57 PM RRR really started a rolling stone of interesting tales of long walks through the redwoods, forests, mountains, hills, and...
Thursday, August 7, 2008 7:03 AM This account put me in mind of Thursdays during Tertianship at Tronchiennes/Drongen. The luncheon layout included piles of "La...
Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:19 AM Dear Robert & John, I may be able to offer some explanation of the use and evolution of "Balbus" in the Novitiate. The name...
Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:38 AM Dear Ed, Robert and John L., I had the "ah, yes," experience from somewhere deep in hidden memory when Ed explained "Balbus,...
Thursday, August 7, 2008 2:06 PM Ah, the grapefields and the drunken bees ! During siesta one afternoon I remembered that a full sized rattlesnake crawled over...
Thursday, August 7, 2008 8:11 PM Morey: There was a Mason from California at Sophia and I think he was there just a year before going to the theologate as a...
Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:35 PM Morey: Don Mason was one of the good ones. I knew him for only part of one year. Just got to know him a little and he left for...
Friday, August 8, 2008 10:21 AM Competition was certainly a part of the grape picking season in our time. Each novice was told to keep track of how many...
Friday, August 8, 2008 10:23 AM The rattlesnake story reminded me of my first year picking grapes. Fr. Charvet gave us the talk about picking grapes 1) dont...
Monday, July 28, 2008 2:18 PM In Oregon, infamous were the silver thaws, when the wind chill and humidity made the air so cold it was amazing that we didn't...
Friday, August 8, 2008 1:13 PM The Glory Road changed by the time I came along. Jim Healy revealed the top three scores each day to the novices by name in the...
Jim (McCarthy), Your story about hoarding Laughing Cow cheese reminded me of a similar experience of mine, with a slightly indelicate twist, when I was ...
Monday, August 11, 2008 12:49 AM Thanks to Mike C. for acknowledging the work done by "packers"--lifting/carrying those grape boxes to the bins. Actually I...
Monday, August 11, 2008 6:29 PM This evening my memory was jarred by Dick's comment on driving the grape truck with Fr. Keenan. Fr. Keenan had such great...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:51 AM George Seeber, Holy Keenan and all the angels fit into large and small places, it amazes me to read some stories on this...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:49 AM Not to diminish the driving skills of either Pfaff or Lounibos, I still recall with nail-biting dread a couple of the rides I...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:13 AM When the Larraburu bakery went under, as the result of one of their driver's hitting a bicycling kid, it was rumored that...
Dear Jim (Donovan), Thanks for the info on the Montecito fire which seems to be somewhat north of the former novitiate property. I was there for the one in...
Here is an obit for Don Merrifield sent by Gary Schouborg, alum of LMU For those of you who knew Don and may have not heard. Being his own man, he was a...
