Rev Mibi

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Knitting Again - Yay!

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Having finished the shawl/scarf for StrongOpinions while in Windy City, I have started a pair of socks. Feels good to be knitting again...I ...
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Friday, November 24, 2006

Windy City Adventures

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Thanksgiving. Wow. Way too much food, especially of the carb-laden variety. My mother-in-law made the food extravanganza yesterday, while so...
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Monday, November 20, 2006

News update on break-ups, mess-ups, and speak-ups

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On the breakup of StrongOpinions and Semi-Useless Boyfriend: I was worried about my girl, so I cashed in some frequent flyer miles, went out...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Gray Day

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It's wet, the leaves are mostly on the ground, and I'm tired. StrongOpinions and Semi-Useless Boyfriend broke up yesterday (his idea...
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Monday, November 06, 2006

The Investiture and Seating, and Why I Don't Like Liturgical Dance

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On Saturday, I watched the investiture of our new Presiding Bishop, the incomparable Katharine Jefferts Schori, on my computer. We were supp...
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Friday, November 03, 2006

Both ends of the spectrum

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I got back my Hebrew final... (drum roll, please) 97.7 Now you know exactly how geeky the prof is, that I ended up with a grade like that. I...
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RevGals Friday Five: Toofies

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Friday Five: Toofies Please share your thoughts on the following: 1) The Tooth Fairy I got quarters, too. My kids got a buck a tooth. now I ...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

RevGals Ghoulish Friday Five

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1. Do you enjoy a good fright? No. I've had some bad stuff happen to me that make me less than enthralled by scary happenings, because s...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Prayers, Please-

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...for dear L. She had become engaged to a wonderful man (after a number of years as a single mother) and was looking forward to the wedding...
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

No Rest for the Weary

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...not when there are two cats in the house. I was up early this morning, getting ready for a field trip to a funeral home. I was just getti...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Word for the Day: Hesychasm

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So a goodly part of the day was spent doing abstracts of previous lectures for my New Testament study group. Reading, analyzing, winnowing o...
Friday, October 13, 2006

Sex Ed For Clergy

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One of the requirements in this diocese for all clergy, seminarians, and paid staff in parishes is that they take two sexual abuse/misconduc...
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Friday Five: Creature Comforts

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Thanks to ReverendMother for this lovely Friday Five - it made me feel relaxed just thinking about it: 1. Comfort beverage : a pot of white ...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Want Some Cheese with that Whine?

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I volunteered to be a class chaplain. It's the sort of thing I love to do, and that I think I do pretty well. Apparently a number of oth...
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Monday, October 09, 2006

What Day Off?

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I'm working my way through Leander Keck's "Who is Jesus." Only problem with reading this stretched out on the couch is tha...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

R.I.P. Moses

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At 11 pm last night, the phone rang. Never a good sign, since the universe knows I'm incoherent after ten. It was StrongOpinions, in tea...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Just in case you were wondering...

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RM mentioned in a comment on a prior post that I was looking radiant when I was at the concert at her church last weekend. The truth is that...
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Monday, September 18, 2006

Yes, I'm Still Here

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...just a little swamped with work right now. It's all good, and I'm loving it. I got deeply engrossed in an exegesis last night and...
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Saturday, September 09, 2006

Bleahhh

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Still feeling awful. I went to bed early, and slept in StrongOpinions' room since I didn't want to infect poor PH, who's doing a...
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Friday, September 08, 2006

Friday Five: Five Things I've enjoyed This Week

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I'm sitting here feeling yucky from what feels like a bad sore throat/flu coming on, so meditating on things I've enjoyed may put me...
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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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