It’s Sesqui Night in Canada; come see us at Corner Sesqui; This Sesqui has 22 Events; It’s the Little Sesqui on the Huron; It’s SSI – Sesqui Scene Investigation: maybe Law and Sesqui; how about the Sesquisons with Canons Bart and Homer; it’s SesquiFarce!
Ever wonder just what a Sesqui is? In all honesty, I’d never heard the term before the Diocese of Huron announced its Sesquicentennial celebrations and even after I joined the organizing committee for the events, I didn’t pay much attention. Oh, my friend Mike from Camlachie got it all mixed up and was sure we were importing a Bigfoot from BC, but as usual he’d inhaled too much dust down at the Grain and Feed to get things straight. So, here I am, it’s Friday afternoon, I’ve kidded myself into believing that my homily is ready for Sunday and given that the mercury keeps tickling minus double digits (Celcuis that is), I really don’t want to actually do anything of substance. (If any one from my Parish Council is reading this, just ignore the previous line). My goal is to spend three, maybe four minutes on the internet and see what I can find out about the term Sesqui and package it up as a brilliant article for the Huron Church News that will win rave reviews and help the Bishop forget my confession above about slacking off. So like any good academic wanting to do extensive research I called up the Google search engine, typed in Sesqui and lo and behold there are 475 thousand web sites that mention the term. Now, granted this was a make work project, but scrolling through 475 thousand websites, that’s the kind of thing John Chapman makes Huron College students do just to get a C+. …..Well, maybe if I just look at the first couple of pages I can get enough interesting stuff to bluff my way through. The first thing I find is a definition – Sesqui means one and a half. All this work, all this hype, all this intrigue and all I can get for a definition is one and a half! Sounds like something an early Church Council would dream up, but hardly the stuff of journalistic inquisition on a lazy Friday afternoon. Well, maybe this is a little more interesting. Sesqui comes from two roots – semi and que meaning half and one. So, here we are back at one and a half. Yawn, any good Simpsons reruns on the tube. Maybe I could get out my Three Cantors CD and drift into musical oblivion. No….I set out to investigate this and investigate this I will; right after a large black coffee from Tim Hortons. (Yep that volume discount thing again!!!) Ok the true black gold has jolted me from my journalistically induced slumber and I’m ready to dig at least through the first 30 web sites. Hey, now we’re getting some where! Did you know the University of Minnesota had a Sesquicentennial, and the University of Rochester too! Now this is really exciting – there is a Rapper named Sesqui! Unfortunately he’s never released anything, just recorded with others. I thought we had our main entertainment for the JLC service on October 28th. Maybe there’s somebody in the entertainment world named Ben Cronyn; that would be a good match. Alas, that task falls to the JLC Committee under the capable leadership of Canon George Ferris (absolutely not one of the Canons named above). No I have to dig to find out about Sesqui. And now, we have found something of undeniable significance. You can buy Sequi on eBay. That’s right! There it is, right on my computer screen. It’s a 1950 US Capital Sesqui Washington DC so called dollar. Kind of pricey though; the bid right now is $43.58 and that’s probably US so it’s a couple of thousand Canadian. Ok, on to the next list of sites. Oooooh, now this might be fun. A chemical named Sesqui. The description says its crystal white, non sticking! Whoa! This must either be the best thing ever, or illegal! Oh, it’s Sesqui Alkali; maybe not so exciting. Well…this one is right up the church alley. “Does the Body Matter” – how the heck can that be connected to Sesqui. (Well some say my body is like one and a half, I guess there are some possibilities). It seems that on May 9, 1996 in Buffalo at something called the Sesqui Symposium, someone named Christine Vidal presented a paper with that title. She goes on to say, “at what point does our biological being intersect our cognitive being . . .” Hey, I’ve heard too many sermons that started like that, no more!! Ah, now the coup de resistance. Here’s an article by Bob Gregory “The Value of Peripatitic Economics: A Sesqui.” Now, if that doesn’t just stir me to my roots. You know what, I think I’ll get to that sermon now, or maybe go do a dozen or so Pastoral visits.
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