4/30
Steady, cold rain,
all day. Kind of day where your feet get wet and stay cold all day long. And
the rain keeps falling harder.
Yesterday, Geoffrey
sat in the back of the sanctuary, asleep through the clergy meeting. Later I
saw him on the pew in the narthex, left hand on his heart, right hand open and
raised up in a right angle salute. Eyes closed. Looking like a National
Geographic portrait of an African tribal noble.
Lotte, Carman and
their sound man are all in to check things out for their performance Friday
night of their 14 song cycle, Girl from Diamond Mountain, a powerful,
disturbing and in the end hope-bringing exploration of child sexual abuse and
recovery. Lotte’s friend from Denmark,Karen has come as well and we give her a
tour of the whole building, which is new for Lotte as well. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznXLmfwVLY)
We look in on a
Noche meeting in the chapel, still developing Antigone.
Pat O comes in to
help me organize my thoughts and plans for the Session meeting and soon enough
they all arrive, ready to deal with a new offer, lists of emergency building
needs, staffing the porter position and thinking about the future. We make
enough decisions to move forward.
RL and Katie R are
heading out to help Harvey celebrate her birthday. I’d love to stop by but need
to go with Jamie to the B to catch up.
5/1
May Day. I’d love
to join the Religion Labor Coalition in the march, but too much else to do.
Come in to the
church to show Lupe and Ann and their intern around. They are from Dos Pueblos,
the Tipi Tapa sister city project that had it’s roots in the Nicaraguan
solidarity movement of the ‘80’s when the US/ Contra war raged and I was back
and forth regularly over seven years. Dos Pubelos is one of the few of the
solidarity groups that has kept faithful
and maintained relationship. Good seeing them on May Day. (http://tipitapa.org/)
Geoffrey is resting
or meditating again.
The exterminators
are back. And we are virtually mice-free. Getting rid of Rachel’s carts pretty
much solved the problem. Another case where the liberal press saw the romance
of a colorful neighborhood character. And we took care of the mice.
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