One of the first things Jerry said during my meeting with him was that Milwaukee house told him about the blog. He said it in a way that made me feel "found out" or convicted. I’m sure I said something stupid in response and then moved to a different subject.
He brought it up again at dinner, a couple of times. I soon realized that Jerry has NO IDEA what the blog is, and because of that, his imagination has really run rampant. He has some strange sense that the blog is all about him and that any piece of information that lets out about his life is no sooner spoken than posted on the blog for all to see.
"It probably even has my sons’ shoe sizes."
He feels very guilty about forgetting to tell St. Petersburg that his son is expecting a child. Apparently they asked him how his family was doing and he never answered. He was afraid that he would tell us something about his family (like expecting a grandchild), it would make it to the blog, and then St. Petersburg would see it and get their feelings hurt.
In other news, Jerry thinks his grandchild should be named "Echo." I thought he was kidding—and I think he sort of was, but he sort of wasn’t. Jonathan suggested the name "Gogy" if it’s a boy and I think "Gogia" is an appropriate feminine alternative.
Sarah, however, had the best idea:
"I think you should name him Hector because it has all the letters of ‘ECHO’ plus two more."
A final Jerry moment to report:
I gave him the routine parish tour and we came to our music director’s office. I introduced them and Jerry looked around and said something like, "yeah I appreciate what you do. I’m a real mystagog by nature."
cricket. cricket.
I had almost forgotten that mystagogia is ALWAYS relevant.
2 comments:
ha. that's awesome. i also got the impression that he thought we were blogging crazy things about him. and i'm only slightly offended that he didn't tell us about the grandchild. :)
all i could think of was "HECTOR!!! HECTOR!!!! HECTOR!!!" from Troy
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