[Magdalen] Emotionally shattered

[Jay Weigel]

How I feel after a 3 day rock and gem show. It takes me most of a week to
recover.

On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>
> > 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
> >
>