Stuff

I am deeply distressed about the election of Ratzinger as Pope.
My job is boring and frustrating.
I haven't been getting enough sleep so I'm brain dead and not able to muster a thoughtful post.

On the other hand: I was up late last night I went to a local city council meeting which voted unanimously to name the theater at the Senior Center for my late uncle, who was a life-long theater artist, a city councilman, and who worked at that theatre.
Someone commented at work yesterday that I appear to be losing weight.
Miss V and I were friendly yesterday.
I am back in touch with a friend who I had feared I'd lost.
My daughter is doing well.

And this was part of my morning comics routine:



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News Brief

I just got home after meeting for the first time with a new advisor at my school (that would be the School of Theology and Ministry, where I am enrolled in the Master of Arts in Transforming Spirituality program -- the degree that is intended to help prepare Spiritual Directors/Companions for their ministry).

We agreed after a conversation that ran much longer than I had expected, that what seemed most appropriate at this time was for me to take a year's leave from the program so I can concentrate my time and energy on my shamanic studies.

Gotta love a seminary that considers studying with a shaman an important aspect of spiritual formation, if that's what your path seems to be indicating.

Like virtually all of my SU faculty, she was very open to and respectful of my unusual spiritual history and the most recent currents of atypical spiritual development. (Atypical when compared to most seminary students, anyway.) It was a very good conversation.

I realize that I still owe my general readers "the rest of the story." Hopefully I'll have the time to do that this weekend.

In the meantime: I'll be finishing this quarter and then not going back to SU for at least a year. A year from now, I'll re-evaluate where I am, where I want to go, and what part this school could -- or could not -- contribute to what I want to be. And I can always come back earlier, if I decide that's what I want to do.

But somehow I doubt that's what's going to happen.