Originally Posted by lydia coffman
Originally Posted by jpthequilter
Bishop Tutu in Izmir, Turkey in the Anglican Church there.
We talked mostly about St. Polycarp, who preserved many of the letters from the first century early christians.
The Dali Lama while traveling in Europe.
Mother Teresa in a hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she was on a fundraising mission. I advised her how to help some of "her girls" get jobs in a specialized field.
OMG! You met BOTH Bishop Tutu AND MOTHER THERESA! How lucky are you! Especially meeting Mother Theresa..she is my hero. Consider yourself blessed!
You know, each of them was so friendly! They were so nice! I do consider myself blessed. Bishop Tutu is very funny! I like his wife too. She is a very handsome woman.
Very quiet - Doesn't say anything much...which I think
she has learned is best with their international exposure in the press/media.
I met the Dali Lama while traveling, while waiting for travel connections. He did not tell me who he was, but I guessed, and after that we had a long and very enjoyable conversation. He is a very intelligent and practical man with a quirky well developed sense of humor too.
I was at a museum conference in Indianapolis, I was in a hotel, I think waiting for a session to begin. Somebody came up to me and said: " Can you help this lady?" "She is asking for advice about working in a museum." She was wearing a kind of dark curious handmade suit and a hat. Of course I recognized her face. She told me she was known as Sister Theresa known as "Mother" in India...and that she had sort of sponsored a group of girls, and one of them wanted to get a job in a museum, and she wondered how to go about it. It turned out that I had helped one of my former museum docent/student/employees get a job in the nearby Children's Museum, there in Indianapolis. So, later that day, I introduced them....and later heard that the girl in question was helped to get a museum job.
Jeannie
I'm in Port Lavaca...hill country are you far?