Monday, April 6th, 2026. 6:33 AM.
Eileen, I’d Like to Text with You
Eileen: “About what topic, Mark ?”
Mark: “St. Charles School.”
Eileen: “Okay, what about it ?”
Mark: “I’ve been having many thoughts about our old grade school, lately.”
Eileen: “What thoughts are you having about our old grade school, Mark ?”
Mark: “Thoughts about having been deprived of attending 9th grade; thoughts about where some students went to school prior to coming to St. Charles School; thoughts about how wonderful/interesting the setting would have been for us in 9th grade on the 3rd floor — where the auditorium was located and the school library.”
Eileen: “What students came to St. Charles School later than 1st grade, Mark ?”
Mark: “You and Patricia L. and Margaret C.”
Eileen: “Where do you imagine we went before transferring to St. Charles School ?”
Mark: “I wonder if you all went to Summer Street School; or Our Lady of Victories; or Harris School; or, maybe a school in a nearby town; but especially I’d like to text with you about all of us continuing together into 9th grade; and then I thought: why not add 10th, 11th and 12th grades, too? We might have all stayed together right through high school; and then, I thought: maybe Sister Mary Carlene could have become our high school teacher – I mean, maybe she would have enjoyed refreshing her teaching career by becoming a teacher of high school subjects – and, maybe it would have been as wonderful for her as it would have been for us to see her former first-grade students of 9 years ago as 16 and 17 year-old students – and be teaching us subjects such as the Bible and Literature and English composition and short story writing and novels; and Dance and Music–beyond Waltzing Matilda [I’ll never forget that classic song she had us singing in first grade – with the second-grade class sitting in with us.] There must have been more than a hundred of us all in that one-room first-grade classroom on Friday afternoons.”
Eileen: “Well, as you may recall, Mark, I only came to St. Charles School in fourth grade.”
Mark: “I do remember that, Eileen. And I wonder where you were in school for 1st though 3rd grades. And another thing I noticed is this: I was two months short of 7 years old when I entered first grade; but you were much younger – one month short of 6 years old; so you were 5-going-on-6; and I was 6-going-on-7. I imagine I would not have been ready for school at such an early age.”
Somewhere Over the Rainbow – The Wizard of Oz (1/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD
Somewhere Over the Rainbow – The Wizard of Oz (1/8) Movie CLIP (1939) HD – YouTube
Mark: “And the other wonderful thing, Eileen, would have been the setting: the auditorium would have been right outside our 9th-grade classroom doors – and the school library would have been on the other side of the auditorium. It would have been such a different setting! And there is a music video I saw recently that had a setting – at the very beginning — that reminded me of the third floor of St. Charles School. And there was a young boy and girl in the music video who were becoming close friends. I only found the music video accidently – when I was listening to a music video of a song by the Bee Gees. I can’t remember what song that was; but I believe I could find it again if I did a search of the Bee Gees’ music on YouTube.”
Eileen: “Mark, I’m curious about the music video of the boy and girl; please try to find it and place it here in your writing.”
First of May – Cemetery Scene, Melody (1971)
First of May – Cemetery Scene, Melody (1971)
Mark: “Eileen, in Oak Hill Cemetery in Woonsocket – many years ago — I found a headstone with your birthday and my birthday on it – on opposite sides.” Her name is Jeannie B. Livingstone. And his name is James Pickford. I guess they are sister and brother. And another curious thing about that headstone is that someone else’s name is on that pillar on another side; and her name is Jeannie B. Pickford. So, I wonder if they are mother and daughter. And on still another side is the name of a woman who apparently did not get married and perhaps had no children. And she may have lived longer than all the others there. I’m trying to recall her name. It’s been many months since I last visited Oak Hill Cemetery. Florence I. Livingstone is her name, I think. And a man named Job Pickford is also on the stone – perhaps the husband and father of the other two women named Jeannie B.”
Mark: “And there’s another thing, Eileen – it has to do with Sweet Avenue and someone else who was in first grade with me at St. Charles School. Her name is also Eileen. And she and her brother lived in the neighborhood – but not on Sweet Avenue. They lived in a Quonset hut that is still there on Cass Avenue behind a house that faces Sweet Avenue. That Quonset hut is vacant-and-boarded-up now. And still another thing that is so mysterious is this, Eileen: several months ago I was walking on Sweet Avenue and saw a mysterious sight.”
Eileen: “What did you see, Mark ?”
Mark: “In a large space in front of 5 garages that face Emerson Street that comes down a hill to Sweet Avenue is “something” all wrapped up in black plastic. It is shaped exactly like a Quonset hut ! And last Saturday, April 4th, 2026 I walked again on Sweet Avenue for the first time in several months – and that mysterious shape-under-wraps is still there. And I asked the mailman what it is. And he didn’t know. And a man walked out of the house where Gary Garcia and family had lived; and I asked him if he knew what that black plastic was hiding and he didn’t know, either.”
Mark: “Eileen, one more mysterious thing happened on my walk on Sweet Avenue last Saturday.”
Eileen: “Tell me, Mark!”
Mark: “When I reached Stanley Avenue, Eileen – which comes down to Sweet Avenue – just like Emerson Street – I stopped and looked up Stanley Avenue. And I recalled Eileen Gaouette walking down that hill on the last day of first-grade in June of 1959. And two other girls her age were with her – one on either side of her. And I said quietly but out loud, “I love you, Eileen. I will always love you, Eileen. You are so beautiful to me.”
Joe Cocker – You are so beautiful (nearly unplugged)
Joe Cocker – You are so beautiful (nearly unplugged) – YouTube
Mark: “Eileen, there is a passage of Scripture that seems fitting to this occasion.”
Eileen: “What is that passage, Mark ?”
Mark: It is in the 21st chapter of the last book of the Bible, Eileen. And you were 21 years old during “The Summer of ’74.” And now I am 74.
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” -Revelation 21: 1-4 ESV Study Bible.
Mark: “And there is still more, Eileen.”
Eileen: “What more, Mark ?”
Mark: “Up that hill of Stanley Avenue – in the building that used to be Par-X Club – is now located “New Beginnings” – a place where meals are served for the needy. And directly across Stanley Avenue from “New Beginnings” is a church named Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Rhode Island. Its front door is on Elm Street.”
Christina Perri – A Thousand Years (Lyrics)
Christina Perri – A Thousand Years (Lyrics)
Revelation 1-14 ESV
Revelation 1-14 ESV – Prologue – The revelation of Jesus – Bible Gateway
Revelation 15-22 ESV
Revelation 15-22 ESV – The Seven Angels with Seven Plagues – Bible Gateway
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