[Magdalen] Meatless, but definitely NOT penitential

[Ann Markle]

The older I get, the less I mind giving things up for Lent, and find it a
useful exercise.  I'm already so virtuous that it almost makes my teeth
hurt; but Fridays in Lent I tend to go meatless, as I have/am today.  For
lunch I make a meatless chili out of refried beans and diced tomatoes with
chili powder, heated in the microwave, and for dinner we'll have salad and
a frittata with cooked veggies added.  Sigh, not even any bacon on my
Friday breakfasts out with the girlfriends -- but it makes me glad when
Easter comes.

Today we got about 4 inches of snow.  More was predicted, and it looked
like a whiteout sometimes, but not much accumulation, as it turned out, and
light -- could almost have been cleared with a broom, but I used a shovel
this early afternoon, and not much more collected after that.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Our group of four goes out for a pint after running the Food Bank on
> Tuesdays and they are all giving up alcohol for Lent and one who is
> vegetarian is going vegan.   They've already said they'll sit and watch
> me.  I used to do all this so strictly and am now an elderly backslider. :-(
>