Word from the road yesterday is that Delane is out of ICU and is doing well. Thank you for your prayers. We are waiting now for suitable transplant organs.
Thursday morning we left for Tripp and Trish's wedding in Virginia. With us in the Toyota for the 1600-mile round trip were Justin and Mae (and here and here), themselves affianced and set to wed next summer. We made it to Princeton, West Virginia, stayed the night there, then went on into Lynchburg on Friday. On Saturday, I got a chance to drive over to Roanoke and visit my friend, Brent (scroll down to last picture), who's a philosophy professor at the college. It was a short visit, but we got to meet his daughter, Aubrey (born exactly one month before Sofie), and he and Aubrey got to meet Sofie.
Saturday was a beautiful day for a wedding: sunny blue skies and mild temperatures. The wedding and reception following was an amazing mix of diverse family and friends. I got to meet a couple of the people with whom I've interacted on Tripp's blog. One of them, on introducing herself to me remarked: "You're that annoying Orthodox convert." Yep. 'Spose so. But apparently my wife's charm overcame my annoying nature, and Kate has agreed to sew a dress for Anna. I also met Megan, with whom I've most vociferously disagreed in comments on Tripp's blog. Apparently, she and I both seperately remarked to Tripp that on meeting one another the universe did not implode as both matter and anti-matter actually shook hands.
The trip back on Sunday was a long one, but safe. It's now Monday, and I'm full-speed back into my normal week. At work all day today, then my class tonight.
You're now caught up.
Posted by Clifton at September 27, 2004 10:27 AM | TrackBack"You're that annoying Orthodox convert."
Is there another kind? :)
Posted by: Karl Thienes at September 27, 2004 12:27 PMOh, no. No, there isn't. Not till later, and after some pounding by one's spiritual father.
Posted by: kate at September 28, 2004 09:54 AMYou're not an "annoying Orthodox convert" yet because unless I missed something, you've not been chrismated yet. Or was it some secret thing no one is privy to yet?
:-P
Posted by: Theodora Elizabeth at September 28, 2004 05:53 PMTE:
I did not mean to imply that I was a chrismated convert, but then again I've been under the assumption that in Orthodoxy one is a convert both on the way to chrismation and afterwards. If so, then perhaps I qualify.
But in any case, I'm bound by an oath of secrecy as to the various handshakes and passwords in which I've been tutored in the church basement during coffee hour.
Posted by: Clifton D. Healy at September 28, 2004 09:55 PM