Tuesday (Thomas Gallaudet)

Usual workday weekday early AM routine.
Tried to stay ahead of a flurry of incoming emails, each of which required only a brief response (i.e. within the two-minute rule), but they add up.
Continued to attend via email to a continuously developing “situation” in one of our parishes. It’s hard when the narratives I hear are wildly divergent. And time-consuming.
Made air travel, lodging, and car rental arrangements for a trip to the Dallas area to ordain Jonathan Totty to the priesthood on September 30.
Lunched on leftovers.
Read and responded to an email from a cleric of the diocese.
Read and responded to a query from a postulant of the diocese.
Plotted and scheduled the various task I need to accomplish to be personally ready for the annual diocesan synod in October.
Did reconstructive surgery on an old sermon text for Proper 18, in anticipation of preaching at St George’s, Belleville on September 8.
Caught up on my Covenant blog reading. Shared an item to Facebook.
Having finished the book I’m set to review for The Living Church, I began to gather my thoughts and make some notes toward writing something.
Evening Prayer in our domestic chapel.
Took Brenda out to a wonderful French-style bistro for dinner in celebration of our 47th wedding anniversary.