[Magdalen] Hello...photo help needed!

[Grace Cangialosi]

Friends,

I have recently realized that I'm staying in touch with most of you on
FaceBook rather than on here.  That being said, some of my most useful
information has always come from among this group, especially tech stuff!

I recently finished a weeklong Civil Rights Tour to the deep south from
Charlottesville during which I took hundreds of pictures.  I'd like to view
them on my computer, but once again I have discovered that I don't know how
to do that.  The last big trip I took was to the Holy Land in October 2019,
and those photos are still all trapped on my phone.  I've never seen them
larger.

I pay for iCloud storage, and my pictures are supposed to be backed up
there, but all I find are four empty folders. I have no idea what to do
next.  I have all the past pictures from my digital camera in regular files
on my computer, but I can't even seem to transfer the phone pictures that
way anymore. Can someone tell me what to do?

As far as actual Magdalen-related content is concerned, I'm currently
serving as part-time priest in charge of a small rural church in Culpeper,
VA.  I've been there for three years. We worshipped entirely online for
about 14 months, using Zoom from my kitchen (we had no tech capability at
the church). We've been back in person since Easter of 2021, and we still
Zoom the service for folks who can't come in person.

Our diocese recently elected a Bishop Diocesan, The Rev. Canon Mark
Stevenson. He was one of a slate of four middle-aged white men, and even
efforts to enlarge the slate by petition were unsuccessful. I'm trying to
assume the Holy Spirit was involved in the decision...   In sad news for
many of us, our former Bishop Peter Lee died on Saturday. He was our Bishop
for 25 years, and he'll always be my Bishop!

My personal life has undergone huge changes in the last year and a half,
some of which I guess you already know about. My daughter was divorced,
went through one huge job change, completed her initial tasks, and was let
go for no cause. She has now moved to Sarasota, Florida, and although she
is loving it, it's a huge change after having her down the road for the
past 16 years. She had to leave her horse here with a friend, so he's not
living at my place anymore, either. I have been down to visit her twice,
most recently last month.

My son committed suicide on New Year's Day, and the dynamics in the family
from that are ongoing, as you can imagine. His third daughter had gotten
married shortly before that, and she's expecting a baby in August. Two
other daughters have just had babies--that will be five in all. All of his
children
have really gotten closer and they try to spend Thursday afternoons and
evening visiting their mom. That's huge, because my son had really fomented
a lot of division among them, mainly on "religious" lines.

Until last week I had managed to avoid COVID completely, despite our county
being strongly anti-vaxx and anti-mask.  That ended the day after the
recent Civil Rights Tour--18 of us tested positive as of a few days ago,
but no one did until the very last day when we were on our way back here. I
consider myself very lucky, because this has just been like a bad cold, and
it's pretty much over.  This is day 8, and I'm taking Paxlovid, which ends
tomorrow. It was worth it to be able to finish the entire trip!

Enough!  I am eagerly awaiting any help on my photo dilemma...

Thanks,
Grace

Grace Cangialosi,
Ruckersville, VA

* "Service is what prayer looks like when it gets up off its knees and
walks around in the world"*
*                                              Michael J. Graham, SJ*