Rev Mibi

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Cheesehead's Meme

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Cheesehead has challenged me to participate in her meme: Leave your name and... 1. I'll respond with something random about you. 2. I...
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You can take the girl out of the Irish, but you can't take the Irish out of the girl...

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You are St Brigid's Cross: St. Brigid is an Irish saint who hand-wove a cross,out of rushes she found by the river. She made the cross w...
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Friday, October 07, 2005

Friday Cat Blogging

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The Spooky cat helping her RevGal mom in rainy day reading (note the RevGalBlogPals tee shirt).
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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Cassoulet

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Rob built the furniture in the living room because I asked him to. It was my second year in the apartment, my second year in graduate school...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Seminary Application - Spiritual Reflection

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As part of my seminary application, I must write a spiritual reflection. I'm on draft # 49 1/2 - perhaps I'm overworking it a bit? -...
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Monday, October 03, 2005

Nursery School is So Very Cool.

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It's especially cool when you've got a matching dress and shoes and backpack. This is granddaughter Katie (all in pink) with her bes...
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Sunday, October 02, 2005

Knitting Blogging

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Ah, yes, I know I've recovered from the trauma of GREs. I'm knitting again. For several weeks I had focused on "The Ultimate Ma...
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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Testimony...

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as to the power of prayer. The GREs went remarkably well, despite my fears. I followed Quotidian Grace's suggestion and reminded myself ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Not Traveling, But Rather Testing Mercies

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GREs tomorrow at 9 am. Four hours at the computer typing away. Just me and my #2 pencils. Fortunately, I have choir tonight to settle my ner...
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Sunday, September 25, 2005

Thank you...

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...for the prayers. I survived the PDC meeting with some tears, a lot of talk (2 and a half hours worth) and a sense that these dear people ...
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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Prayers, Please...

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For good things: my stepson and his wife, parents of grandbaby Bryce, have told us they are expecting again. Since grandparenthood is just a...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Weird Feelings and Flowers

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I went to a board meeting of our trade association tonight. Fancy restaurant, lots of very pricey wine. I was nominated to a senior leadersh...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Continuing on the Path

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My Parish Discernment Committee met for the first time on Sunday after church. As I've mentioned before, they had the first meeting with...
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Friday, September 16, 2005

Fall Meme (I Can't Resist)

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Several of the RevGalBlogPals had posted a Fall meme. Me, too! Me, too! Favorite Fall Food: apple crisp, with the first wonderful apples of ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2005

How Different People View the Hurricane and Its Aftermath

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I sit on my employer's Diversity Council, an effort on the part of our very large corporation to make our world a caring, accepting, saf...
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Monday, September 12, 2005

Greek et al

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Tonight's our first Koine Greek class at church. I've been studying on my own, using a computer program, but I think I'll progre...
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Saturday, September 10, 2005

Forgiveness

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This has been the week for pastoral care of many sorts. I've mentioned a parishioner who is angry with our rector because of what she p...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Various Good and Bad Things

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I went to the eye doctor today. I had suffered a few months ago from a bout of optic neuritis - an inflammation of the optic nerve which may...
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Saturday, September 03, 2005

The Supermarket

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One of my Saturday rituals (while PH is off bicycling 50 plus miles - yes, he is insane) is to go to the Farmer's Market, and then to th...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Slogging through...

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...the GRE prep. I thought my hatred of all things numerical was at its peak when I was 14 and taking Geometry from the evil Sr. Domenica (w...
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mibi52/ The Rev. Dr. Mary Brennan Thorpe
Richmond, VA, United States
A second (actually fifth) career Episcopal priest, I am serving as Director of Transition Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. I help parishes find priests and priests find new calls.How did a RC convent girl with a Teamster shop-steward dad end up here? Married to Pastoral Husband, AKA PH, an ordained minister and full-time pastoral counselor. Three kids from the prior marriage: Strong Opinions, artistic 30 y.o. girl trying on the world for size, Stonemason, 32 y.o. guy working with his hands in the North Country, Litigator, highly verbal 34 y.o. with aspirations to be the next Michael Moore. Two stepsons, 4 step grandkids, a cat. Way too many books.Well, there are never too many books...
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