I left St Crispin's and the Popcorn Theology Retreat just after lunch.
It was very good indeed, we saw two movies, last night it was The Hundred Foot Walk, which I had already seen but didn't mind seeing again, and the Monuments Men this morning, which I hadn't seen. The first movie involved a lot of pausing and discussion, the second we watched without interruption. The facilitator, I thought, was an Episcopal priest from Tahlequah, and she certainly is a priest, she celebrated Communion and is from Tahlequah, but looking her up tonight on the internet I was surprised to find that she is a practising psychiatrist. Not that I am casting any doubts on her professional abilities, I just didn't realise that was her day job. I can't find much - hardly any in fact - information about the Episcopal Church in Tahlequah. but perhaps it is too small to support a full time priest. Anyway, she is a very warm, pleasant person and loves movies.
The Retreat started with dinner on Friday evening, but a group got there in the morning to make pillowcases again for the children of incarcerated parents. I was going to go and help, but didn't make it, mainly because I was at the hospital Friday morning and by the time I got home and packed a bag and pottered about it was the middle of the afternoon by the time I arrived.
I settled in a lounge/dining room and was soon joined by others who cracked open bottles of a fruit flavoured champagne, and opened bags of snacks, followed by a very interesting cheese board, so it was quite a lively pre-dinner cocktail party.
The pillowcases, are'nt they colourful. I was telling Bill and another chaplain about them on Friday morning and said I would have thought that there would be something else children would rather have, but they said that poor people just don't have pillows, and for a poor child to have their own is a big deal.
So that has been my weekend thus far.
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