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The Monday Morning Memo


Elizabeth Soychak of the Renegade Cabaret

Our Brand of Crazy

I lived in obscurity for 31 years in my NY apartment on West 20th St.  But that changed on June 9, 2009, the day Highline Park opened and thousands of people began to walk along enjoying the vegetation and the views of the city three stories above the street. Very nice for them.

Finally at the end of the path, a gaze towards the last house on the left, and Poof! My privacy is gone.  No more walking around in the loft half dressed.  Maybe you can even hear me on the phone arguing if I get excited. What about my laundry? I've hung it on the fire escape for decades.

When I saw the opening date, I told my good friend Elizabeth Soychak: “We have to do something. We have to respond.”

She says, “I can sing a few songs.”

I say, “OK.”

I had these great Party Patio Lanterns from the 60's which I unwrapped and clipped to the railing.  Elizabeth donned a beautiful dress which was gifted from Debra, the former upstairs neighbor. She plugged in the mic and did a few jazz standards. Immediately a captive audience began to pool. Sam Shepherd asked one of the Highline Park staff, “Did you organize this?” and the guy answered, “No, it's just the neighbors”.

Suddenly it came to me and I blurted out: “Welcome to the Renegade Cabaret!”

So when the Party Patio Lanterns are lit, something special is about to happen.

Patty Heffley

 

 

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And how did this singular individual — this eternal being made flesh — approach power? He rejected it, by word and by deed. And it all began with Christmas.

If a person is going to look for a coming king, the last place you’re going to start is in a stable. But that humble birth presaged a humble life and the establishment of what my former pastor always called “the upside-down kingdom of God.”

Christ’s words were clear, and they cut against every human instinct of ambition and pride:

“The last will be first.”

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

“If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”

Those were the words. The deeds were just as clear. He didn’t just experience a humble birth; Jesus was raised in a humble home, far from the corridors of power. As a child, he was a refugee.

And when he began his ministry, he constantly behaved in a way that confounded every modern understanding about how to build a movement, much less how to overthrow an empire.

He withdrew from crowds. When he performed miracles, he frequently told the people he healed not to tell anyone else. When he declared, near the end of his life, that we are to “render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s,” he not only rejected the idea that he was Caesar, he also rejected the idea that Caesar’s domain was limitless.

And then, faced with the ultimate test — an unjust execution — right yielded to might. The son of God allowed mortal men to torture and kill him, even though he could have freed himself from Rome’s deadly grasp.

When Jesus did triumph, he didn’t triumph over Caesar. He triumphed over death itself. When he ascended into heaven after his resurrection, he left earth with Caesar still on the throne.

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- David French, New York Times, Dec 22, 2024. I like David French because he obviously believes that Jesus never intended for his followers to become political activists. He, like me, remembers that Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world.” – RHW

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