[Magdalen] Updates, Changes, and Re-Treads

[Grace Cangialosi]

Hi, Cady!  Prayers for you through all the "changes and chances of this
life,"

I'm interested to hear about the service changes, because I'm going to be
supplying there on April 2nd, and as yet, I haven't heard any specifics
from Miller about the services.  I had assumed there would be the usual
three services, though I'm actually glad to hear that the two later
services are being combined.  It's going to be interesting to see how your
music program plays out, given the very different music styles of the two
services up to this point.

Hang in there, my friend!
Grace

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:04 PM, cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear ones,
>
> Sort of a status report -
>
> On April 1 the company division I work for, HPE Enterprise Services,
> splits and merges with a division of CSC to form a new company. What
> could possibly go wrong on April Fool's Day? Scott Knitter - are you
> also moving to the new company?
>
> The main contract for CMS on which I continue to work remains the
> same. The environment remains challenging. As far as I can tell, it's
> the nature of computer tech work now to expect too much of the
> hardware, software, and people involved. My job and its expectations
> has expanded exponentially. Some of it is easy. Lots more is really
> difficult - no training, no orientation, limited support. More for
> less.
>
> Medications and symptoms from the "massive saddle P.E." are, after 3.5
> months, finally beginning to stabilize and recede. I've been sleeping
> a great deal, and have had very little energy for anything but the
> rock-bottom basics. It's typical of a recovery, neither easy nor
> straightforward.
>
> Our choir director/organist quit Wednesday. She leaves a hole and an
> improved (if tiny) choir. We use the organ and choir ONLY for our 11am
> service. That service is soon to be combined with the 9am
> family-friendly service (they are very lucky to have a wonderfully
> talented folk musician for their service music) as we're too small a
> congregation to sustain both services plus the 'standard' Rite 1 8am
> eucharist. As usual. It's not the changes we know and prepare for,
> it's the ones we can't see and can't prepare for!
>
> Feeling very much out-of-sorts, wishing for faster healing, hoping for
> enough energy this weekend to begin gathering data for tax returns,
> praying for renewal.
>
> hugs & prayers - Cady
>



-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love."*
*St. Teresa of Calcutta*