[Magdalen] List quiet?

[Sally Davies]

Orange Nissan Micra here, and I love it! Fun to drive and easily located. 

We are in throes of year end exams for my boy still at school, next year is his last. My other boy came home from Uni this week after his first year away...we have missed him horribly. 

We are also getting ready for a much awaited but unexpected trip to the UK for Christmas! Keith’s Dad in Swansea is 95...still in good fettle but it’s time we all went and when funds came in that was the moment. 

Keith was able to get tickets at a price seldom seen...however we have had to renew passports for the boys and timescales are very tight on that. We will hire a car for the four of us to get around...all being well we leave on 10th Dec and fly home on New Years Eve. 

Prayers appreciated that two South African passports and two British passports will arrive in time! I’ve also renewed my SA but the old one isn’t dead just yet. The 3 SA Citizens need both passports...Keith after nearly 30 years in this country is still not a citizen, his own choice and not one that I support. 

We continue to pray for rain...some good rains in early Spring but November has been dry so far. 

Watching the California fires has brought back memories of our own fire disaster last year, and our hearts are with you as we pray for missing people to be found, for good rain and for sustainable prevention plans. Which will not include trying to rake up the dead leaves!! But maybe a bio intervention will help, we need something that consumes leaf litter more rapidly as in drought years the normal fauna can’t break it down quickly enough. Unlike a certain President’s grey matter which went for compost a long time ago...

Nice to catch up...we are a small group of diehards on the list but many of the old crowd on FB. These days, though, I’m not “doing FB” out of disgust at their complicity in undermining democracy and their data leaks. I check it occasionally but post very little. 

Twitter is the current addiction (@sallyshuttle). Not under my name for professional reasons which feels safer though it likely isn’t hard to trace me.

Blessings to all

Sally D in Blue Horizon Bay 

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> On 16 Nov 2018, at 22:31, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I love yellow cars! I had wanted one for years and finally got a beautiful yellow Nissan Stanza in the summer of 1983–I loved that car! I went to seminary in 1986, and on Hallowe’en, ‘88 it was stolen out of the seminary parking lot! We never got it back. I vowed never to get emotionally involved with a car again.
> 
>> On Nov 16, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I worked my butt off (not literally, but I wish!) in the election for three
>> local candidates for congress, state house and senate.  They all lost.  The
>> day after the election I was devastated.  But after some reflection, I am
>> proud of those three people who chose to run and of all those who worked as
>> hard as I did in the election.  Our candidate for congress was the biggest
>> loss.  He ran against a Republican who has held the seat for a very long
>> time.  He is backed by Betsy DeVos money.
>> 
>> Bill and I are fine considering our age. The new rector in our parish came
>> Nov. 1 and he is outstanding! Bill said the other day, "I am not scheduled
>> to celebrate the Eucharist any time in the future and I think that's a good
>> thing. It is time."  A long term supply ended for him on Easter Day.  He
>> has done services in our parish on occasion since.
>> 
>> Have I told you I bought a Jeep Renegade, bright yellow. I can always find
>> it the grocery store parking lot.
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:21 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Lake Michigan is our friend for a while each autumn (we live about six
>>> blocks from the lake shore).
>>> 
>>> Snow fell but none stayed. There's none out there...just gray, chilly
>>> weather but above freezing.
>>> 
>>> In summer we benefit from the "cooler by the lake" that's a feature of most
>>> weather reports.
>>> 
>>> Lake Michigan is our friend.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:13 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Just buried in snow here at the edge of the Pennsylvania Poconos.There
>>> are
>>>> about eight inches starting at noon yesterday, and continuingovernight.
>>> My
>>>> trusty shoveling crew has already cleared the entrances andthe driveway.
>>>> We went from a sort of extended autumn with some rosesstill in bloom, to
>>>> winter, in one fell swoop.
>>>> 
>>>> It's still rather quiet, however.
>>>> 
>>>> David S.   Waiting for the long predicted constitutional crisis.
>>>> In a message dated 11/16/2018 10:56:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>>>> jhandsfield at att.net writes:
>>>> 
>>>> Eithe
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Scott R. Knitter
>>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
>> Western Michigan