In another thread, it was suggested that I might take on some stuff, which I think relates well to this thread.

Instead of starting a whole new "Thing," I've decided to share the following, here. It's long overdue, anyway.

~S~



IT'S A NEW DAY, HALLELUJAH!

This post will cover a number of topics set off by dividers that look like this:

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Thing One.

Sometime since the last writing, the Prayer Chain, with which many were familiar, ceased to operate to/from the email address it had long used. There were a number of reasons, which had been accumulating.

When Hotmail stopped working well with Outlook, my time also had just gotten quite a bit busier (incl strokebrain rewiring). I invited members to take over the mailbox; none volunteered. I left that Hotmail account on a "permanent" forward setting, to my personal email; I deleted the Chain's bookmark.

This also coincided with a more salubrious MudEnvironment for a wonderful diversity of prayer/good thoughts threads. These seemed then and still seem, to me, to work well. I have particularly enjoyed seeing how the diversity of Mudcat is as well reflected in those threads as the Chain itself had always been.

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Thing Two.

In the same way that most Mudcatters have 3-D pursuits, obligations, and expectations, so do I. In the same way many Catters do not tell all their personal business here, nor do I.

Some of these pursuits, obligations, and expectations would surprise folks who do not know me-- I suspect, quite a bit. :~)

These are occupying more time of late than they have for a long time. I love them. I want to do them. And-- I want to give them the time they invite me to spend.

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Thing Three.

Lent is a particularly busy time for me each year, as a clergy spouse. This year's will be no less busy-- but in fact much MORE busy, as I have "Thing Two"-type stuff to do this year, and quite a lot of it. Some of it is not only fascinating in itself but is the groundwork for lucrative, compensate, professional work coming down the pike.

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday (the day after Shrove or "Fat" Tuesday).

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Thing Four.

I'll be "giving up" the BS section here for Lent.

(In the Anglican Church, most of the folks I know "give up" things in Lent not because they are bad, but because we want to focus, intentionally and sometimes with discipline, on something better-- which can still only be done in the Earth's approx. 24-hour day. :~)

This means that folks who regularly "see" me here in BS threads (and who are sometimes led to PM me) will not see me there. They may wonder where I have "gone." Please refer them back to this post, if you would. Thank you.

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Thing Five. I'm always only a short email away. My travels increasingly include email access. Most of the people who might need the addy already have it (look in our PMs, by subject line "Contact Info," or by PM Search). (It's also in a lot of old posts.) Those who already have my email address are welcome to give it to others who they think might need to be in contact, or to let me know of something to look at.   Thank you.

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Thing Six: Mudcat, and Me.

Mudcat has never really been an effective place for me in a number of ways that are important to me. It has taken me practically my whole time here to figure out why this is so: It's not because of Mudcat-- it's not because of me-- it's simply because Mudcat does not contain a sufficient number of people who are CLERGY SPOUSES. To anyone who has a different impression-- um-- What You See Is What You Get. I say this descriptively, not pejoratively.... If anyone has a different impression, well, What You See Is What You Get, too. :~)

I have always wished every one of you here the very best, as defined by you from your own view, and I cannot imagine wishing anyone otherwise no matter how difficult things have sometimes gotten. If anyone has a different impression-- What You See Is What You Get. :~) You'll figure it out someday if it's not clear yet. Thank you.

~Susan