{"id":9776,"date":"2025-01-11T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T14:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9776"},"modified":"2025-01-11T22:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T04:04:02","slug":"2024-moore-family-tough-to-summarize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9776","title":{"rendered":"2024\/MOORE FAMILY: TOUGH TO SUMMARIZE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does one capture a year in a few pictures? How does one capture a year in many pictures?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you capture even a fraction of inner\u00a0thoughts and emotions of all kinds?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is impossible, but to quote G.K. Chesterton, “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” Here then is a very potted look at our year:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As mentioned in last year’s newsletter, Doreen lost her beloved father late in\u00a02023. This year came with the death of her mother. We are grateful that Doreen had many sweet visits with both over the last several years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The birth of our granddaughter\u00a0was certainly a joyous occasion. She is deeply loved. David and Reese are (not surprisingly) already quite adept at the parenting stuff!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Our youngest son Chris, graduated\u00a0magna cum laude<\/i>\u00a0from Harvard Law School. Not only did he excel academically, but we think he excelled in finding a girlfriend. Yudith (or Yudi as we call her) and Chris first got to know one another during their 1L (=first year) at Harvard. This link has some pictures:<\/strong><\/p>\n

HARVARD LAW GRADUATION | Moore Engaging<\/a><\/p>\n

While we were in Boston, we received the news (literally while sitting down to dinner in Little Italy) that our dear friend Randy Newman had died. Doreen and Randy were on Campus Crusade for Christ staff together. Randy and I became close when he and\u00a0his\u00a0wife moved to Austin. Here is my tribute to Randy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

RANDY NEWMAN: REMEMBERING OUR FRIEND | Moore Engaging<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris surprised us with a trip to England. David, Reese, and Yudi all pitched in. We went to London, Cambridge (where Yudi was finishing another degree), Oxford, and the Cotswolds. All the places were amazing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The church in the Cotswolds is where we worshipped. Though there were only about twenty-five of us in attendance, it was one of the most meaningful services we’ve ever attended. After the service, we talked to the rector, and he told us that our friend Randy Newman’s book made a\u00a0significant impact on him. What an encouragement!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We also had a wonderful time staying in Philadelphia with Yudi’s parents. Though her parents have been all over the world, they had never been to Gettysburg. Both of Yudi’s parents are MDs and were born in Spain. They moved to the U.S. to practice medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We reunited for a terrific time with some old friends at a wedding.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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So much is left out, but I will close with the Christmas gift we received from Yudi: tickets to Handel’s Messiah along with a wonderful picture of her and Chris in Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How does one capture a year in a few pictures? How does one capture a year in many pictures?\u00a0 How do you capture even a fraction of inner\u00a0thoughts and emotions of all kinds?\u00a0 It is impossible, but to quote G.K. Chesterton, “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” Here then is a very potted look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friendship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9794,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}