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wildeabandonSo the Church of England has drawn the "Living in Love and Faith" process to a close, in a way that puts any pursuit of my priestly vocation out of reach for the foreseeable future. A new working group is being set up to continue looking at the question of priests in same-sex marriages, which is supposed to report back to Synod in 2028. Based on past experience, that probably means 2029 or 2030, at which point there will no doubt be a new round of painful arguments, and then I guess we'll see. But for now, that door is closed.
I think I am currently feeling less upset about this than I thought I'd be, although it might just be alexithymia fogging things up. It didn't really come as a surprise, so to some extent letting go of the uncertainty is something of a relief.
It also removes the potential complication that comes with having reinvigorated my academic vocation, coming back to the field with my mental health intact, my ADHD treated, and the general increased wisdom that comes with age. Of course academia and the priesthood is hardly a combination that hasn't been tried before, but I had been worrying slightly about what happens if I have to make a choice about which to pursue first, and now that that choice has been taken off the table I can just concentrate on my studies, and should at least be well into a PhD before the question of formal priestly discernment becomes pertinent again.
I think I am currently feeling less upset about this than I thought I'd be, although it might just be alexithymia fogging things up. It didn't really come as a surprise, so to some extent letting go of the uncertainty is something of a relief.
It also removes the potential complication that comes with having reinvigorated my academic vocation, coming back to the field with my mental health intact, my ADHD treated, and the general increased wisdom that comes with age. Of course academia and the priesthood is hardly a combination that hasn't been tried before, but I had been worrying slightly about what happens if I have to make a choice about which to pursue first, and now that that choice has been taken off the table I can just concentrate on my studies, and should at least be well into a PhD before the question of formal priestly discernment becomes pertinent again.
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Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
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animenewsnetwork_feed2nd Gundam Hathaway film drops to #4, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time re-release opens at #5, Milky☆Subway drops to #8
animenewsnetwork_feedHiroya Egashira, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Manaka Iwami, Aoi Koga, Lynn join anime's cast
ysabetwordsmithThis year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...
* Posted "Esbat" todreamwidth_pagans.
* Posted "Climate change" toenvironment .
* Posted "Books" toethical_society_of_satan.
* Posted "Esbat" to
dreamwidth_pagans.* Posted "Climate change" to
environment .* Posted "Books" to
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silver_chipmunkGot up this morning at 11:00 and had breakfast and coffee. Then I showered and dressed, and went into Flushing to get my three prescriptions filled. Nothing of particular interest happened on the trip, the rain had stopped and it was grey and damp.
I got back and put in a Shipt order. I got an Easter basket and some candy, and Easter grass for the basket for Middle Brother. Easter isn't until April though so I'll hold off on anything else til later.
I looked at HP's page but decided not to do anything at the moment. Yes I know I need to investigate the computer warranty but not yet.
mashfanficchick called me and told me about a situation with her building that lead us to the conclusion that it would be sensible for me to go over to zer place tonight after my D&D game and spend two nights until Friday rather than going over Thursday. So that's what we arranged.
At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB and we had very serious technical issues, but, amazingly, caused by the Teams app, rather than my computer. We know this because the problems were on both our computers, and persisted even when I switched to my phone. Bah humbug. We never had these issues with Skype, why'd they have to go and eliminate it?
Anyway, at 8:00 I went to my D&D game, and, also amazingly, Discord worked fine, though I did keep my camera off so as to not put any more stress on it. We fought orcs and goblins, and got accused of passing counterfeit gold pieces.
Then I fed the pets and gave Oreo a day extra, and then Ubered here. We had dinner, and hung out for awhile and then I borrowed this laptop and started here.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Got my meds.
3. Shipt.
4. My gaming group.
5. The computer worked for the game.
6. Visit with a friend.
I got back and put in a Shipt order. I got an Easter basket and some candy, and Easter grass for the basket for Middle Brother. Easter isn't until April though so I'll hold off on anything else til later.
I looked at HP's page but decided not to do anything at the moment. Yes I know I need to investigate the computer warranty but not yet.
mashfanficchick called me and told me about a situation with her building that lead us to the conclusion that it would be sensible for me to go over to zer place tonight after my D&D game and spend two nights until Friday rather than going over Thursday. So that's what we arranged.At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB and we had very serious technical issues, but, amazingly, caused by the Teams app, rather than my computer. We know this because the problems were on both our computers, and persisted even when I switched to my phone. Bah humbug. We never had these issues with Skype, why'd they have to go and eliminate it?
Anyway, at 8:00 I went to my D&D game, and, also amazingly, Discord worked fine, though I did keep my camera off so as to not put any more stress on it. We fought orcs and goblins, and got accused of passing counterfeit gold pieces.
Then I fed the pets and gave Oreo a day extra, and then Ubered here. We had dinner, and hung out for awhile and then I borrowed this laptop and started here.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. Got my meds.
3. Shipt.
4. My gaming group.
5. The computer worked for the game.
6. Visit with a friend.
annavereMichael Siberry, who played Martin "There's nothing like the kill of a seasoned Immortal" Hyde on Highlander, also played easily lovelorn upper class twit Bingo Little on Jeeves and Wooster.
I don't think a "he's in disguise" crossover would work in this case.
I don't think a "he's in disguise" crossover would work in this case.
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highlander_ii posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Disintegration of Memory
Fandom: art
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of art by Salvador Dalí
( Disintegration of Memory )
Fandom: art
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of art by Salvador Dalí
( Disintegration of Memory )
landofnowhereTies that Bind, Ties that Break, Lensey Namioka. Found in a Little Free Library; I'd previously read the autiobiography of Namioka's mother Buwei Yang Chao, recommended by osprey_archer, so I was curious to see how Namioka wrote historical fiction about her mother's generation. Our protagonist Ailin is very much not based on Buwei -- Buwei is the sort of person, where if you wrote her life as fiction, readers would not find it believable. (There is a minor character in the book who appears to be based on Buwei, and Namioka later wrote a sequel about her, but based on descriptions it sounds like it goes in a different direction.) Instead this is the sort of middle-grade historical novel that I ate up as a kid, and it is a well-written example of this, but as an adult I don't want the story to stop when the protagonist turns 19.
Chroniques du Pays des Mères, Élisabeth Vonarburg. Yep, you'll be getting updates on this every week, though I'll try to avoid spoilers (we are now almost halfway through). In this week's installment the protagonist starts college in the Big City, population 15,000, and so we get a bit of a fun school story, and also some comparative linguistics.
osprey_archer, so I was curious to see how Namioka wrote historical fiction about her mother's generation. Our protagonist Ailin is very much not based on Buwei -- Buwei is the sort of person, where if you wrote her life as fiction, readers would not find it believable. (There is a minor character in the book who appears to be based on Buwei, and Namioka later wrote a sequel about her, but based on descriptions it sounds like it goes in a different direction.) Instead this is the sort of middle-grade historical novel that I ate up as a kid, and it is a well-written example of this, but as an adult I don't want the story to stop when the protagonist turns 19.Chroniques du Pays des Mères, Élisabeth Vonarburg. Yep, you'll be getting updates on this every week, though I'll try to avoid spoilers (we are now almost halfway through). In this week's installment the protagonist starts college in the Big City, population 15,000, and so we get a bit of a fun school story, and also some comparative linguistics.
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