[Magdalen] Congressional Inaugural "Sick-out".

[Grace Cangialosi]

I'm having lunch with a friend tomorrow, and we've decided we'll just have a moment of silent prayer at noon.

> On Jan 19, 2017, at 12:55 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> I won't be watching. It's all I can do to stand the preparations today. It
> just makes me sick. Today I start with my eyes closed, hands over my ears,
> singing, "La, la, la." It's going to be a long four years.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:36 AM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I know the number's over 50 by now, and I'm only mostly certain they're
>> all Dems.  But be that as it may....
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I honestly disagree with the boycott.  I fully understand it; I just don't
>> wholly agree with it.  Being a sucker for being "part of history", even if
>> only via the TV screen and couch-elevated sore feet, I'd give my eye teeth
>> to be there in person.  And these boycotters would have prime seats, no
>> less.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> And to show how much I respect and revere the office if not the
>> office-holder as such (though he does have my "basic respect as a fellow
>> human being", as I tell Everett), I honestly fear for him (and his wife;
>> will she be there? I honestly don't recall any direct mention recently to
>> her being present) and as much as it galls me, I can't wait till he's
>> safely Oval-ed and on his hopefully only four-year journey (or less; hey,
>> it's possible).  Why?  Security at these things is the best there is, ...
>> but nothing's perfect.  From the moment tomorrow's affair started sinking
>> in as something I was going to take a vacation day to be home for, two
>> words began floating around in my head, banished as often as possible to
>> the farthest reaches because the thought is just too crazy-making in its
>> essence... :  "Book Depository".
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dear God, keep everybody safe.
>> 
>> --
> Ann
> 
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY