Rev Mibi

Friday, May 30, 2008

Stuff

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Today is my day off. First time in a year I've had a situation where I had a whole day off. So I went to physical therapy (and the assoc...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

New Things

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Today is my first day at my summer field internship at Saint Diverse. An apt name, since it is diverse in all ways. Single priest on staff, ...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Transitions

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Yesterday, I attended Litigator's college graduation out in California. His hasn't always been the easiest of roads - it took him 5 ...
Monday, May 19, 2008

In the Liminal Space

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Yeah, "liminal" is one of those seminarian words, isn't it? So this is the week between the end of school and the beginning of...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Hallelujah!

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All exams are done. All papers are in. To wrap everything up with a bow, I had my candidacy interview with the Commission on Ministry today ...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Some Churches have Church Cats

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Our seminary chapel has a raccoon. Actually, now we have several raccoons. Apparently, a female raccoon set up house in one of the window we...
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Monday, May 12, 2008

Little Things Keep You Going

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It's the little things that keep me chugging along in this crazy final week of school. I took a break this afternoon and got my hair cut...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

No More Teenagers

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As of 12:07 am, I will have no more teenagers. StrongOpinions, my youngest child, will turn 20 then. She called up this evening to tell us s...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Checking Items off the List

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The sermon for Trinity Sunday to be delivered in Homiletics class on Friday is done. It's not a work of art, but it'll preach. The S...
Friday, May 02, 2008

TGIF

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So I've got 9 pages of notes thus far from my readings for the Ethics final paper, which has a limit of 6-10 pages. I'm not done rea...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Yes, I'm Here

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It has been a rock-'em sock-'em time and it's not over yet. Another two weeks and school will be over, including the exams. One ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Sermon for Sunday, April 27, 2008, Easter VI, Year A. Acts 17: 22-31

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If you want to preach to a stranger, you’ve got to make yourself a little bit less of a stranger to them. So it was for the new principal at...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Getting Things Done

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I've been procrastinating. It's one of the things I do best. Some things, though, won't wait. It reached up to the bare edge of ...
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Monday, April 21, 2008

Cowboy's 5th Birthday

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Cowboy celebrates his 5th birthday, then gets engrossed in his favorite gift, a GameBoy. He' s showing the same powers of concentration ...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Back Home

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Got to spend a lovely 36 hours at our diocesan retreat center way out west. The traffic on Friday was truly abysmal for the first 30 miles. ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Mapquest

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I'll be going to our diocesan retreat center/camp out towards the West VA border on Friday. A lovely place, and one filled with happy me...
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Big-Hat Night Part Deux

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I avoided wearing the purple dress. Wore a tasteful black dress instead...one of the few from my old life as a lobbyist that fits these days...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Big-Hat Night

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Seminarian's dinner tonight with our guy with the Big Hat (some folks call it a mitre). PH and I are going - he skipped last year's ...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

Missing Her

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Strong Opinions was here for the weekend. Of course, my schedule being what it is, I didn't get to spend too much time with her, but it ...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

I Want One

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They're little and they're cute and they get 41 mpg and I paid $3.39 a gallon for gas today. There's a dealership about 2 m...
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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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