[Magdalen] Emotionally shattered

[Ginga Wilder]

Introvert's hell, Roger.  Cringe-worthy.  Perfectly nice people, but so
many of them.  Time for you to be alone in beautiful spaces contemplating
it all and sorting it out.

Blessings,
Ginga

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> The past couple of days have really convinced me that I have strong
> intravert characteristics.  I do enjoy meeting people, including listren I
> have met in the past and may meeti in the future, but enough is enough.  My
> eldest niece got married yesterday in a civil ceremony after which I
> conducted a short blessing in the garden.  It was a grand occasion and my
> son and daughter-in-law were there with their adopted son and
> nearly-adopted daughter who turns 1 tomorrow. (Her blood brother is 11
> months older than she is so he will be 2 next month.)
>
> A fair few of us were staying at the same hotel and when I wandered into
> the bar early Sunday evening, thinking I would have a nice bar snack, I
> found a group planning to go out for a meal so I joined them at a nearby
> pub-restaurant.  Since I knew there was a decent pub in the area that I
> wanted to try out I asked who fancied going there and was surprisedc to
> find that Claire (the bride) knew of it having driven past it numerous
> times when in the area with her work.  She also wanted to have a chat with
> me so she, her (then still) fiance and one sister accompanied me to a pub
> whose name might well descibe some clergy we may have met who are too
> heavenly-minded to be any earthly use  - the Holy Inadequate.  The beer was
> worth the trip and Claire and I walked back together for a useful chat.
>
> Yesterday after a (too big but I knew I would miss out on lunch) breakfast
> we gathered in the lounge area before getting on the chartered Routemaster
> bus to the wedding venue.  Earlier I had been acting as unofficial
> information centre telling enquirers who I had seen and where they had gone
> while my son and his family used my room to change in as they had not yet
> been able to check in.
>
> The weather was moderately kind - dry but cool - so we had the blessing
> outside rather than in the converted barn where the legal marriage had been
> solemnised.  Claire didn't realise how I could projust my voice until I
> started :-)  Altogether it was a grand occasion but | realized afterwards
> that I had been engaged in social interaction for most of the day, even
> allowing for the fact that mu brother and I adjourned to the bar for a
> relatively quiet drink or two once the speeches and the first dance were
> over.
>
> This morning my sister-in-law's brother, confusingly another Roger,
> remarked that I looked rather wearied, which was an accurate comment.  It
> was not lack of sleep so much as the stress of so much social interaction.
> After the final farewells (including to a bride and groom who looked a lot
> better than I reckon they had any right to look) I was glad to hit the road
> to come home.
>
> Roger
>