Tuesday

Back in the diffuse insanity of the real world, which is preferable to the concentrated insanity of General Convention. 

• Usual AM routine; task planning at home. 
• Cleared the small pile on my desk blotter, which involved signing a couple of routine documents. 
• Morning Prayer in the office (there were meetings going on in the cathedral). 
• Reviewed, made some notes on, and electronically returned the rough draft of the liturgy for Friday's institution of the Provost of St Paul's Cathedral. 
• Attended and participated in a meeting of the Finance Department, at which we tweaked the rough draft 2016 operating budget that had been prepared by the Treasurer. 
•  Tomorrow is the funeral of a prominent member of the cathedral parish, and it has fallen to me to preach. So I got busy preparing to do so. Since funeral homilies are rarely anticipated, my habit is just to say an earnest prayer, take a deep breath, and start writing what is given to me in the moment. It's a process that usually turns out to be filled with grace. 
• Lunch from Pizza Hut (yes, I was rather bad), eaten at home. (Sudden late-morning craving combined with the knowledge of how easy it is to place an online order and just walk into the place and pick it up.) 
• Continued working on the funeral homily, placing the printed script in the cathedral pulpit around 3:30. 
• Took a several-block walk west and north, and back. 
• Revised and updated some "vintage" material that will be repurposed for a sermon this Sunday at St Stephen's, Harrisburg. 
• Took care of a small Nashotah-related administrative chore, and a small Tabora-related administrative chore. 
• Evening Prayer in the cathedral.