“It’s astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble on can get oneself out of if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.” - The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
e do have to make the best of what we have and follow the government guidelines if we hope to come out the other side and resume our Lodge meetings and indeed our lives as we fondly remember. - T. W. Hogeboom, Deputy Grand Master
"As with any Lodge program, it works well if all members are prepared to support and promote the program as a team." - Thomas W. Hogeboom, Deputy Grand Master
"... with high levels of COVID circulating in the community even the fully vaccinated still need to mask, physically distance and limit their social contacts." -
"Lodges who have been making use of these monthly videoconferences on a regular basis have been reporting better attendance than when they were meeting in Lodge" - Thomas Hogeboom, DDGM
"'I decided that the candidate could not be received, for, in my opinion, no person should be initiated into the mysteries of Free Masonry who is either maimed, halt, or blind...'"
