[Magdalen] How's everyone?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Glad to hear you’re back from surgery!!
Thanks for article - well written and informative. 
Lynn

On May 10, 2018, at 10:30 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Christopher,
Thanks for sharing the good words you heard from Patty+ Downing about
Ginny.  Ginny is well suited to St. Anne's. Winston Salem.  Lots going on
there. Patty is likewise a very good priest!  I was glad to see her at
Ginny's institution in January.

Thanks for the suggestion TECSC speak with the good people from
Pittsburgh.  I know some of that has taken place, but don't know if it is
at the diocesan or parish level on our end.  Bp Skip Adams intends to name
a trained professional to oversee the upcoming opportunities to reconcile
with parishioners of the Lawrence church.....we sincerely want to welcome
these lay people back.  Have no clue how many will come, but the welcome
will be there.  You may not have seen this news that was published on
Tuesday:
http://www.episcopalchurchsc.org/news-blog/tecsc-asks-courts-to-return-property-identity

I am home from the cataract surgery.  All is well.
Lots going on.
Ginga

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ginga,
> 
> Glad to hear that you are well. Several things you mentioned struck a chord
> for me. First is that I may be looking at a cataract operation myself. The
> vision in my left eye is very poor and cloudy even with my glasses. It's
> distinctly worse than the right eye. Secondly, I was at the Province 3
> Synod Sunday-Tuesday and had some conversation about Ginny with her former
> rector, Patty Downing. We are both said how happy we were for Ginny and
> Barbie. Patty was elected to Executive Council during our meeting. Last,
> but definitely not least, you (meaning the EC in SC) really might want to
> be in contact with the good folks in the Diocese of Pittsburgh who suffered
> much of the same troubles and have rebounded nicely. They've recently
> managed to come to some agreements with the breakaway group about property,
> etc. that might provide a model for you to look at.
> 
> Thanks for the conversation starter.
> 
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Are we open?  I hope so.  May we check in with each other?
>> 
>> John and I are well.  Each of us has some health concerns, but we fare
>> forward in good ways.  I have my second cataract surgery tomorrow...if it
>> goes as well as the first, I'll have 20/20 distant vision for the first
>> time since I was a small child.  I've already purchased some inexpensive
>> red bifocals and look forward to trying them out tomorrow or Friday.
>> 
>> Good news happening in The Episcopal Church in SC.  By the end of June,
> we
>> anticipate hearing from SCOTUS that they have denied cert in the Lawrence
>> appeal.  We are thinking about reconciliation and buildings now...don't
>> know what is possible, but this consideration is a good distraction.
>> 
>> Our children and grands are also good.  Today is our son Jay and his wife
>> Annie's 26 wedding anniversary, AND their son Zach's 22nd birthday, AND
>> Annie's mom's 76 birthday. Zach graduates this weekend from Syracuse and
>> will go to work in IT for Ernst and Young in Arlington, VA.  We visited
>> with each of our NC children/families last week.  Great to see Robert's
>> group in their home - granddaughter Rory turned 5 while we were there.
> Had
>> dinner with Jay, Annie, and Melanie, who was the only child home.  Katie
>> came home the next day from UNC.  We spent Saturday night with Ginny in
>> Winston-Salem, NC where she is rector of St. Anne's Episcopal Church.
>> Ginny's wife Barbie was fetching her daughter from Duquesne.  St. Anne's
> is
>> progressive, involved in lots of outreach ministries, and has an
>> exceptional music program.  The church is less than a mile from Wake
> Forest
>> University and the NC School of the Arts.
>> 
>> Anyway, I thought we might resume conversation in the pub with ordinary
>> things.  So, what's up with the rest of us?
>> 
>> Ginga Wilder
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Christopher Hart
> 
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