3/31
Pat O, Mim and I meet to plan our retreat for
this coming Sunday. The Center Board and the Session have some serious issues
to work through regarding our future. But the biggest has to be how to get the
congregation to be in a position to focus on its own growth and development.
Needing to return to the original vision of the Center sometimes forgotten in
the search/wait for the white knight.
While we’re meeting, a couple of guys from
Sanctuary NYC come in asking about some microphones they may have left here
last fall. Well….
I get the text from Pat. Her daughter in law
Maya, one of the lead singers of Guess
& Check,(http://www.guessandcheckband.com/?page_id=8) has just delivered Pat’s first grand child, Nyla Simone…congratulations,
Pat….
Mario comes in. Wants to meet with Katherine
and I on Friday to pick up the new spiritual communities conversation. And it
looks like their open choir is meeting tonight.
RL comes in to tell me someone is asleep in the
sanctuary. It turns out it’s Geoffrey. He sleeps here and at Elise’s Advent
Church. Yesterday, when he walked in, he stood a long time facing the Tiffany
Jesus window, bowing and raising his hand in a saluting, or asking, seeking
gesture, speaking in his own language. I wish I could learn his story. Today he
is just asleep. I wake him up. Tell him I’m locking up. Time to go. He thanks
me profusely and is on his way, looking over his shoulder at Jesus.
4/1
April 1st. April Fool’s Day.
Nineteen years ago, this was my first day at West-Park. There is no connection
between these things. It has been a long journey. Lots of blessings. Lots of
losses. Long. It is sunny. Getting warmer. Even though it’s been officially
spring for over a week, it’s still been cold. But warming up now.
Martin, Mitchell and I sit down. To talk about
a long term relationship with Noche.
Five years we’re looking for. It’s not a white knight. It’s piece of a
complicated puzzle. But maybe if we can get one piece down…..maybe…In the
studio next door, Antigone continues to evolve.
David S, who has been working as a handy man,
is turning the front closet into a workspace.
Time to head to Newark to teach.
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