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RODIE AND I returned from Asheville last night (or, rather, this morning) at about 1:30. It was a great trip! We stayed in the guest house of the parish of St Mary’s Church, an Episcopal Community in Asheville. Those of you with longer memories will recall that this was my parish before relocating to Buffalo. [...]

SHEVILLE, I mean… We’ve been to the GreenLife Grocers and we’ll get to the French Broad and up to the Craggy Gardens. Mom will be here later. Church on Sunday with Fr Brent (our gracious host for the weekend) and perhaps a visit to the Monastery for Vespers. We’re here for the Bele Chere festival [...]

OOGLE Has updated their “Streetview” to include, among other places, Asheville, NC. The pictures posted are, at least in part, from the Spring of 2007, as we can see in this picture of the house Todd and I lived in. Notice Todd’s Truck as well as the cable truck. View Larger Map A case could [...]

John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. FTER four weeks of Advent Readings focusing on the Apocalypse, the Day of the Lord, we turn a corner with these Sunday readingsin the RCL and look start preparing for Christmas. The Eastern liturgy does this as well. [...]

HE First day of pictures from my recent trip have been uploaded to Flickr.

IKE A Bird in the winter, I’ve come south. The Bele Chere Festival is in full swing (following a good bit of rain this morning) and I am enjoying a chance to walk around the city. I have noticed that unlike other places I’ve left, I don’t harbour any sense of dislike for the Mountain [...]

I’ve just noticed that I’ve developed an inability to trust people in dealing with religion. This is not a problem I had before. When I moved to A’ville, the folks at St Nicholas parish reached out to me: the Deacon took me into his own house and fed me every weekend. His kids called me [...]