... in front of twenty thousand people in the Rose Garden Arena in Portland. At the beginning of the game, a local girl, thirteen-year-old Natalie Gilbert walked to mid-court to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Natalie did fine at first, but somewhere around “the twilight’s last gleaming,” her mind ... in Parables: Extravagant Stories of New Community (Fortress Press: 1988). 8. Cited by The Rev. Melissa Skelton, http://www.stpaulseattle.org/sermons/080308.html. 9. http://www.firstparish.org/cms/sermons.