[Magdalen] Rain!
Grace Cangialosi
gracecan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 00:36:09 UTC 2018
when I was in seminary I took some classes at Howard Divinity School--it
was part of our consortium of seminaries.Oneof the best teachers/preachers
I ever had was head of the theology department there.Most of the students
in the classes I took were African-American.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great! It was hot outside, but they dang near froze us to death in the
> dental clinic. Had a group of dentists/residents/students come down from
> Howard University this time. They were wonderful! Only about half were
> African-American, despite Howard being an HBCU. Many of the rest were first
> generation Americans or immigrants, a few were foreign students.
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:22 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How was the clinic?
> >
> > > On Jun 25, 2018, at 2:12 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I was in Emporia, VA, this past weekend at a RAM clinic. I arrived on
> > > Friday evening and was thinking of going out for a bite of supper, only
> > to
> > > open my door to a hellacious tropical downpour, the likes of which I
> > hadn't
> > > seen since my days as a travel nurse in eastern North Carolina. It
> lasted
> > > only about 20 minutes or so, and there was a beautiful rainbow after.
> > Also
> > > a blooded intersection next to the hotel.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 1:10 AM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> That cold front produced a light shower here in sunny Queensland as
> the
> > >> edge of it swept by. Other parts of Australia experienced their
> coldest
> > >> June temps in a long time. Parts of Eastern Australia, however remain
> > >> drought declared. There's an awful lot of weather around these days...
> > >> Regards
> > >> Lesley de Voil
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: "Roger Stokes via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > >> Sent: 24/06/2018 3:43
> > >> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > >> Cc: "Roger Stokes" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> > >> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Rain!
> > >>
> > >>> On 23/06/2018 11:31, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:
> > >>> ...Amen to that...but how I wish you could send some of that our way.
> > >> Here
> > >>> on the South Eastern coast of South Africa we have severe drought,
> > water
> > >>> used restricted to 50l per person per day, and farmers are down to
> 20%
> > of
> > >>> normal water allocation, which will result in older orchards being
> left
> > >> to
> > >>> die.
> > >>>
> > >>> Cape Town is doing better, thanks be to God, though much more is
> needed
> > >> to
> > >>> avert another crisis in the next hot, dry Summer season. Here in the
> E.
> > >>> Cape we sometimes get those "cold fronts" but equally often they pass
> > us
> > >>> by, and we cannot count on Summer rainfall either.
> > >> The report on the rugby says it was extremely wet in Cape Town today,
> > >> which probably helped England.
> > >>
> > >> Roger
> > >>
> >
>
--
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*
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