[Magdalen] Update on Scott the Younger

[Georgia DuBose]

One always knew Mother Egregia was actually Mary Poppins, another
interplanetary religious visitor.

Dame Eutrapelia

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Where will you put his faldstool?
>
> Mother Egregia always carries a portable version in her oversize purse
>
> ???
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Amen! Wise counsel...thank you, Jim.
>>
>> Glad to say I said no to helping work on the parish newsletter, which
>> has been revived and the first new issue is really good (I need to get
>> them to send it to me for the website, which I still haven't
>> unloaded). I think I surprised the clergy and editor by swiftly
>> reacting to an email about ideas for the next issue...I just wanted my
>> "no" to be as early as possible. Can't believe there isn't another
>> writer/editor type who could work on that.
>>
>> I'm working on offloading things that are already stressing me out
>> weeks before they happen. Scott the Younger a couple months ago worked
>> with our rector to get our Benedictine community's abbot invited to
>> speak at our church in early October. Scott went ahead and bought the
>> abbot his plane ticket on my credit card (oh, $300, no problem at
>> all?), but what really stresses me is the prospect of hosting him in
>> our apartment for four days (or even two). My therapist has already
>> helped me think through the talk I need to have with Scott about
>> exactly how we're going to do this and whether it can really be a
>> pleasant stay for the abbot. Of course, if I were he I'd want a
>> spartan but quiet hotel room closer to the church, with no cats and an
>> always-available bathroom and no three stories of steps. And we rarely
>> cook for ourselves; will we take up cooking for the abbot? I don't
>> have the days off, either. Then there's the convocation in November in
>> Houston, which I'm lukewarm about attending, and lots of recent
>> expenses means I'm thinking of saving some money and not going to
>> Houston. Need to have this discussion pronto. At least by my next
>> therapy appointment on Tuesday. :)
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
>> wrote:
>> > But one piece of advice: withdraw, for awhile, from any activities that
>> also
>> > stress you out. I realize one can’t do that with the job so much, but
>> > anything else -- including church -- may require you to beg off or say
>> "no" (which I
>> > know you've had problems doing). They will understand and they will get
>> along
>> > without you for a few weeks. And so will anyone else who cares one whit
>> for your
>> > health. Take the time for yourself, and avoid situations where the
>> stress in your
>> > personal life boils over in front of others, or worse, ends up directed
>> at
>> > them.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>