[Magdalen] Home again, home again

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I hope your program with B Brown went well - she is amazing! (and a member 
of my cathedral parish : )

I too was glad to hear that Roger made it back to Intercontinental, Houston 
in time for his fairly early flight!
Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Jo Craddock" <jocraddock at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 6:46 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Home again, home again

> I was relieved to see no incidents on the state police map before your 
> departure from BR on Monday a.m., and none arise along your route.
>
> We hosted "the" Brené Brown (http://brenebrown.com/) at St. James BR last 
> evening at a flood recovery benefit. She decided, over the weekend, to 
> drive from Houston, rather than fly. That was helpful to our fund raising 
> bottom line, but due to a fiery wreck on I-10 between Beaumont and Lake 
> Charles, and detour to US 90, she arrived with less than 20 minutes to do 
> mic checks, etc. before the start of the evening's programs, with 500 
> people outside the doors waiting to get in to general seating. More than a 
> few of us were sweating that one.
>
> Peace,
> Jo
>
>
> On 01/10/2017 11:43 AM, Roger Stokes wrote:
>> After two weeks in the USA ona trip book-ended by meeting up with Lynn 
>> and Jo I am now back home safely. Despite having been up for 19 hours 
>> when I landed back in the UK I managed to remember how to change gear and 
>> to drive on the left :-)  Both Jo and Lynn had expressed concern about 
>> possible delays on the drive from Baton Rouge to Houston yesterday but 
>> there were none. Having dropped off the rental car I arrived at the 
>> terminal 45 minutes before I could drop off my bag. GPS took me round the 
>> North of Houston (having nothing to do with it as the nice lady at the 
>> Texas Welcome Center put it), coming off I-10 at Beaumont to use US 90 to 
>> Dayton then Farm Road (which sounds a lot worse than it is) 1290 to 
>> Humble.
>>
>> I am very glad I have now seen some of New Orleans with Jo's leadership 
>> but I could have done without the weather I experienced on Friday and the 
>> ice it left in Mississippi.
>>
>> Roger
>>
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