[Magdalen] Update on Scott the Younger

[Georgia DuBose]

Thank you for this crystalline clarification.

Dame Eutrapelia

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
> But that was before she took her Ukrainian lessons. Remember her secular
> name was Putyj La Belle (Her father lived in the French speaking enclave of
> Mu and her mother was born in whatever part of Little Russia her big
> brother wasn't claiming that second. (g)
>
> Mother Ste Folitesse, amanuense
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >>
>>