Thanks, SRS, it's only a little bit like that. For clergy-folk, and their families, it gets heavier in many ways before it gets lighter. We had hoped to get word to people a full week earlier so we could team up to absorb the range of reactions and responses; an unavoidable delay occurred. So our next steps in that will be different. His colleagues also got the word, and will be helpful in shouldering that load.

I love the vagueness of your next professional steps at the end of your post. That sounds like relaxed openness to the range of opportunities I am sure you will have to choose from!


PA:

The week's delay in parochial notifications also chopped a week out of communications with our landlord about exact house departure, but everything else has sorted itself out so elegantly that I'll have to have faith that the house matters will somehow resolve without face meetings. I think I'll see that more clearly from Ohio than I can right now.

The weather forecast looks cooperative for finishing loading up without rain. Tmrw I close the last few boxes and we pick up tarps to wrap Dave's hutch.

~S~