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He held two spoons back to back an inch apart in his right hand, did elaborate rolls against the spread fingers of his left hand, and the rickety-tickety-bop glittery-flibbertigibbet shave-and-a-haircut drove the crowd wild.

He kept them in his back pocket, ordinary kitchen spoons. ®īob Douglas was cheerful, the mandolinist in the Powdermilk Biscuit Band in the early days of A Prairie Home Companion, who loved gospel songs, having grown up with them, even “It’s G-L-O-R-Y to Know That I’m S-A-V-E-D,” and he dove into bluegrass and swing tunes and played a driving backbeat on the fiddle standards, a dedicated devotee and serious folkie, but audiences get restless and earnestness only goes so far, and Bob’s ace card was playing spoons. In her last letter to the King on May 6, 1536, Anne Boleyn wrote: “Your Grace’s displeasure, and my Imprisonment are Things so strange unto me, as what to Write, or what to Excuse, I am altogether ignorant never a Prince had a Wife more Loyal in all Duty, and in all true Affection, than you have found in Anne Boleyn But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my Death, but an Infamous Slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired Happiness then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great Sin therein, and likewise mine Enemies, the Instruments thereof that he will not call you to a strict Account for your unprincely and cruel usage of me, at his General Judgment-Seat, where both you and my self must shortly appear, and in whose Judgment, I doubt not, (whatsover the World may think of me) mine Innocence shall be openly known, and sufficiently cleared.” Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. The only mercy he showed her was in ordering that she be beheaded by a sword, rather than a common axe. She was convicted, and sentenced to death. Anne had several miscarriages after that, and she never gave Henry the son he so desperately wanted, so he accused her of every capital offense he could think of: numerous affairs, incest with her brother, plotting his murder, and witchcraft. Their early months of marriage were happy ones, and their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1533. He managed to get his first marriage annulled by breaking with the pope and declaring himself head of the Church of England and then Anne Boleyn consented to marry him.

For seven years he wooed her, and for seven years she put him off. She was intelligent and outspoken, and had educated opinions about politics and religious reform and came to the court of Henry VIII when she was 20 years old, to serve as lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon.

On this date in 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was arrested for high treason, adultery, and incest. © Eastern Washington University Press, 2007. “Girl in the Doorway” by Dorianne Laux from Awake.

The varieties of religious experience audiobook