Well, here it is, April 14th. One day before the dreaded Ides of April when your income taxes need to be reported. It's also the anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, a former Baptist Church coverted in 1861. (Kind of a reverse-conversion of buildings, given that store fronts these days get converted into churches.) An interesting twist in that story is that the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was shot and killed by a Christian, Sgt.Thomas "Boston" Corbett, who had gotten saved out of the gutters of New York City, literally, through a mission agency, probably a "store front" at the time. Corbett ended up in Andersonville Prison and was a comfort with his preaching to men there.Anyway, today we planted eight new Hino Crimson Azaleas at The Ramp, so I thought I'd show off our handiwork and a new shot of yours truly, taken by a passing motorist who stopped to rag on me as usual. I pointed out to the erstwhile commentator that the day before The Fall, Adam was a gardener. The day after The Fall, he was a maintenance man. Today I got to follow in the good footsteps of our mutual ancestor. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? But, as Jesus said, I don't have to worry about tomorrow, it will take care of itself.
I'm going out to plant a couple more azaleas at the Grey Havens.
Got good dirt?
Sources about Corbett:
David Balsiger, & Charles E. Sellier, Jr. The Lincoln Conspiracy. Schick sunn classic books, Los Angeles, 1977, p. 234.
Lela J. McBride, “Whatever Became of Boston Corbett?” Civil War Times Illustrated, May/June 1991, p. 52.
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