[Magdalen] Hello?

[Ann Markle]

It's Monday the 28th.  I know VTS has rooms, because I reserved one, and
I'm going to cancel it on Monday.  So there's at least one!  But it's a
single, and if you're coming with a friend, it might not do anyway.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for this update, Ann. A friend and I are thinking about coming up
> to D.C. for the march--it's Monday, isn't it? I haven't seen much about it.
> I can stay at VTS for free, but I'm sure all the rooms are gone. We'll just
> leave from here at the crack of dawn. (Or the crack of stupid, as my
> daughter would say!)
>
> > On Aug 19, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I have made arrangements to go to Washington, DC next weekend for the
> > Ministers March for Justice.  Just so you know, VTS has guest rooms
> > available for about $110 per night -- probably very cheap for the DC
> area.
> > But I'm staying free.  I wrote to the social justice minister at St.
> > Columba's church (I interviewed there for a position lo these 15 years
> > ago), and they found me someone to stay with in Chevy Chase.  I feel very
> > resourceful.
> >
> > I've had a hot and not entirely pleasant summer.  I've been eating way
> off
> > my food program, and have gained about 20 pounds in the last couple of
> > years.  Sigh.  Everyone has their issues in life, and I guess mine is my
> > weight.  But I'm back on my program and on a downward course again.  I
> feel
> > better and sleep better already.  It has been hot, and this new
> apartment,
> > while bright and airy, is in a brick building -- and I forgot how brick
> can
> > absorb the heat.  But I've done okay with a fan.  My dog's getting old
> -- a
> > little lame, a little senile, a little incontinent.  Not great, but she's
> > still a really sweet girl, and I guess it's a little like a marriage --
> for
> > better and for worse.  She's about 14 now (who knows for sure?  A
> > fully-grown stray when I got her from the shelter in Tennessee), so
> there's
> > no shame in it.
> >
> > Still sober -- 2 years and counting -- or almost not counting anymore,
> > except I never want to forget.
> >
> > I've been given a (relatively) clean bill of health from the urologist
> and
> > endocrinologist and my internist (gallstones, but no symptoms, so no
> > action).  I still have a couple more tests, but my next appointments are
> 6
> > and 8 months, unless something arises.  One more dr. appt, and I'm done
> for
> > awhile.  I don't like it at all.  I have a friend who seems to kind of
> like
> > the round of dr. appts and tests that she always seems to have -- but I
> > don't like it one bit.
> >
> > I am in a Jungian Women's study group, and this time we're doing "Jung's
> > Map of the Soul" by Murray Stein.  I think it's a little more than I ever
> > wanted to know about Jung's theories.  But it's a good foundation, and I
> > needed that, since I am an ardent student of the feminine, especially the
> > sacred feminine.  At home I'm reading "The Camino" by Shirley MacLaine
> > (yeah, she's a little nuts -- why I thought it would be a fairly straight
> > memoir, I'll never know).  Just finished "Paris to the Pyrenees" by David
> > Downie, and "The Camino" was on my shelf (recommended years ago by a
> > friend), so it seemed a natural followup.  Next I want to finish "Living
> > with a Wild God" by Barbara Ehrenreich.  I started that years ago before
> I
> > moved, with my study group there.  It has been a good summer for bedtime
> > reading.
> >
> > Still doing yoga 2-3 times a week, and I volunteer a couple of hours a
> week
> > in the garden of the Himalayan Institute, which is right down the street
> > from me.  Got to go now to a meeting.
> >
> >
> > Ann
> >
> > The Rev. Ann Markle
> > Buffalo, NY
> > ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> >
> >> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 7:19 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> We are very much home and prepped for a blizzard (milk, bread, reading
> >> material). All the main streets will be closed in a couple of hours
> because
> >> of the Free Speech demonstration on the Common. A few of our more timid
> >> neighbors are expressing great fear. This is very hard on our older
> Jewish
> >> neighbors, of course. And several of our younger neighbors are headed
> for
> >> the counter-demonstration, which is expected to be much larger.
> >> -M
> >>
> >>> On Friday, August 18, 2017, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is anybody home?  It's unusual to go this long without at least one
> >>> post....
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>