[Magdalen] RAM clinic this weekend

[Grace Cangialosi]

Thanks, Jay!
I've registered for that one, as well. Another nurse friend may join us.

> On Apr 27, 2016, at 11:06 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Have a great weekend, Grace! Looking forward to doing one in July.
> 
>> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, tomorrow morning I will leave on a trip to Southwest Virginia to
>> volunteer for a couple of days at a Remote Area Medical clinic in Rural
>> Retreat. I left a piece of my heart in that part of the world about 25
>> years ago, and I'm so glad to have the opportunity to go back and do
>> something useful. The clinic will run from Friday morning through Sunday; I
>> will have to come back Saturday night, because we have the Bishop
>> visiting on Sunday morning, and a friend and I are celebrating at a Celtic
>> Eucharist in the evening.( I expect to sleep all day Monday!)
>> Tomorrow I will also have the great good fortune to spend the afternoon
>> with Helen Lewis in Abingdon. She has been a friend and mentor since the
>> summer I spent in Berea during seminary, and at 92 she is as energetic and
>> inspiring as ever.
>> 
>> And I had a wonderful piece of good luck today regarding housing for this
>> weekend.  They had originally told me that they couldn't provide any
>> low-cost housing for this event, so I had made reservations at a place not
>> too far from the clinic site. Then yesterday, along with the list of
>> last-minute information, they included the names of several people who had
>> offered to house the RAM volunteers.  I emailed two of them, and when I
>> hadn't heard by about 6 this evening, I decided that was that. About 7:30 I
>> got an email message from a woman who said she'd been working in her yard
>> all day and had just checked her email.  She had one room left and asked me
>> to get in touch as soon as possible, because she'd had another email after
>> mine.  So I called her right back--and I have a place to stay for free!
>> She sounds delightful, and when she told me that she was sorry she hadn't
>> answered the first time I called because she was on the phone, and she's
>> never figured out how to do call waiting, I told her I thought we'd get
>> along just fine!
>> So I called and cancelled my hotel reservation, saving about $130!
>> 
>> Life is good... Prayers for traveling mercies will be appreciated.
>> 
>> Grace
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Grace Cangialosi
>> Ruckersville, VA
>> 
>> *“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
>> guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
>> Bonhoeffer*
>>