The Way of Mary: Radiance!
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Taking over for the late Izzie
About Me
- motheramelia
- When I was ordained in 2000, my son joked "my mother is a father." So the name. I worked as a scientist for over 30 years, first in Boston, then LA, San Francisco area, Denver, D.C, Vienna and back to San Fran. Good training for an interim who has served in Eastern Michigan, Wyoming, California and now Maine. Isabelle, the little white dog, better known as Izzie has her own blog now.
Appreciative Interim Ministry
Rob Voyle has been instrumental in my work as an interim. I highly recommend Appreciative Inquiry as a way of looking at life in a parish, or for life in general.
Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir
wrote this icon under the direction of Alekandr Kharon. It sits in the Lady Chapel of All Saints, San Francisco
Trinity
wrote this also under the direction of Aleksandr Kharon. Given to Bp. William Swing, California at his last visit to All Saints'
Where I've Been
Isabelle in her basic black
That woman has no sense of shame. It's a good thing she didn't snap a photo of me walking across the street with my purple purse in my mouth.
7 comments:
Ah, yes ... my wonderful K&E slide rule! I still have it in its leather case. It got me through my undergrad and grad courses in the late 50s and into the 60s. Just seeing the picture brought back a lot of memories!
My K&E got rusted parts sometime in Vienna and stopped working. I reluctantly let it go.
I still keep mine on my desk! (Sliderule) When new young Engineers see it they get confused. Show 'em a book of 7 place logarithms and they overload!
Wade, I had no idea you were an engineer. BTW, St. Andrew's raised around $10,000 for ERD last week. and the fundraiser dinner is now being sponsored by many churches in Lincoln county. They're expecting 250 people.
That's fantastic, St. Luke's did $4000 last Sunday but today is the big interfaith service at 4:00 with Bishops Steve and Chilton plus Muslim and Jewish leaders.
In my final year of school, I did general maths which was the lowest level and nearly failed that. Slide rules were not in our curriculum. Thank God for calculators for mathematical incompetents like me.
We DID have hand-cranked calculators in my day. When you divided you had to count the number of times you turned the crank! (I still have one in the lab someplace!)It worked out well because back then many of our field offices had no electricity, they had gas lights. I can't imagine these youngsters today building anything without electricity, broadband and a blackberry rather than a Burringtons!
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