Who would you choose? Your dining partners can be living or dead, no questions asked.
I’d pick my dad, who died in 1992, Isabella Beecher Hooker (about whom I wrote a book), and Jesus. I’m not sure how they’d all mix, but it would be worth it to watch.
The last time we played this I think I picked Molly Ivins, Bella Abzug and Matt Gaetz so I could watch Gaetz get beat up. This time I’m going to give myself a break.
Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and Anthony Bourdain. It is dinner after all.
I'd choose my brother, who I think of and miss every day. I don't need to add anyone else. There would need to be other dinners with my brother that would include his wife and kids, our parents, my husband and others who loved him.
Of course I want to lobby for having a larger table! And, being part of the discussion- I now want to sit at these other tables, too.
But for MY table, I’ll include Abraham Lincoln, my maternal Grandfather (a country lawyer in an Atticus Finch kind of way, who was a NC state senator credited with lobbying and voting into law NC’s woman’s suffrage/the right for women to vote), and Abigail Adams.
May we all be granted one of these special tables monthly? It’s really got me thinking.
Because of what I'm reading right now, I would choose the late Bishop John Shelby Spong, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary of Magdala. It would be a VERY long night. The history of Christianity is a history of people trying to explain in words the experience of God as seen in the life of Jesus, but I haven't yet read anything that tried to get at what Jesus experienced that led him to his insights into the human condition and the breaking of barriers between the Jewish establishment of his time and the ones outside that circle: women, Samaritans, lepers, tax collectors, the blind, the lame, outcasts of all kinds. I suppose that didn't much matter to Paul and the authors of the Christian scriptures -- to them, only the message mattered, and the message was from God, so that was enough to know.
The last time we played this I think I picked Molly Ivins, Bella Abzug and Matt Gaetz so I could watch Gaetz get beat up. This time I’m going to give myself a break.
Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and Anthony Bourdain. It is dinner after all.
Oh, grand call.
I’d choose my Husband who died in 2019, and my son whose 50th birthday is today and Jesus!
I'd choose my brother, who I think of and miss every day. I don't need to add anyone else. There would need to be other dinners with my brother that would include his wife and kids, our parents, my husband and others who loved him.
And what a lovely meal that would be.
Of course I want to lobby for having a larger table! And, being part of the discussion- I now want to sit at these other tables, too.
But for MY table, I’ll include Abraham Lincoln, my maternal Grandfather (a country lawyer in an Atticus Finch kind of way, who was a NC state senator credited with lobbying and voting into law NC’s woman’s suffrage/the right for women to vote), and Abigail Adams.
May we all be granted one of these special tables monthly? It’s really got me thinking.
Oh yeah. And I agree that we should all be able to visit one another's tables.
Nicola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo DaVinci. Much of the conversation would probably be over my head but that's okay.
It would definitely be over mine.
Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman and my mother’s dad James Robinson .( I never met him)
My choice- my great grandparents, Abigail Adams, Eleonor Roosevelt. Hard to pick 3
Maybe we can bring up an extra chair...
Because of what I'm reading right now, I would choose the late Bishop John Shelby Spong, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary of Magdala. It would be a VERY long night. The history of Christianity is a history of people trying to explain in words the experience of God as seen in the life of Jesus, but I haven't yet read anything that tried to get at what Jesus experienced that led him to his insights into the human condition and the breaking of barriers between the Jewish establishment of his time and the ones outside that circle: women, Samaritans, lepers, tax collectors, the blind, the lame, outcasts of all kinds. I suppose that didn't much matter to Paul and the authors of the Christian scriptures -- to them, only the message mattered, and the message was from God, so that was enough to know.
Isn't he wonderful?
Gandhi, Erica Jong, Carl Jung (I have questions about the collective unconscious).
Now THAT would be a table you'd have to bring your A-game to.
Isabelle Eberhardt
Gertrude Bell
Queen Raina of Jordan
Happy birthday to your son. And I will always miss that birthday song.
Oh, Martha. Sometimes I think I would give all that I owe just to hear my dad's voice again.