Nov. 8, 2021

You may remember that some friends from the States paid a visit a few weeks back. Ai had their wedding in Texas 34 yrs. ago. Laura wrote a kind of report on their experience here…

Laura Forest	Sun, Nov 7, 7:05 PM (15 hours ago)
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Hi Fr. Cas,

Hard to believe it’s been a month since we saw you, 2 weeks since we returned from our trip (to shortening days and cold, although today unseasonably warm).

34 years ago you married us in Temple, Texas! We were so glad you were able to marry us; it was truly a special mass!

Thanks for your blessing on our marriage, we feel fortunate to have found each other and still have so much fun together.

Please take care of yourself. Thanks so much for arranging the meals at your friends’ homes, the lovely young men who drove us around to take in Durban, the sea, the Denis Hurley Center and the surrounding hills and communities. It was a trip of a lifetime for us and we won’t ever forget it. We won’t forget visiting you and getting a feel for your continued ministry to the community. We felt like we were traveling with a pop star! Everyone knows you.

Fondly,
Laura

 

Its nice to get a little bit of taffy now before the epi-taffy comes. Ha.

I went to the dentist today ---Sr. Michael---and she removed the last bit of a tooth that had been broken off way back when (the older I get the more I fall apart). The assistant held my head solid, she shook the tooth and it came loose nicely (another one gone, sigh) but it was bleeding so she put a was in my mouth and told me to clamp down on it. After  a few hours I decided to check to see how it was doing and it was still bleeding so I put another wad in from my own supplies and then just before lunch another. By that time it was almost finished bleeding so I took it out and ate a lot of extra soup for lunch.I am invited for lunch with some visitors on Wednesday so it should be OK by then. Enough of my medical history for now.

 

 

 

Nov, 4, 2021

I seem to be getting lazier and lazier. All I want to do Is lie down and get into a position where the spasms are least active,, hoping even to maybe get a few winks. Once ai get comfy on the chair at my desk, I want to read and read and read.

Learning to Pray ( by James Martin, SJ, which I have read and am re-reading),   Biden’s Catholicism;   Promises to keep (by Biden);  The Abbey, a novel by James Martin---I like his style, easy to read; The Genesee Diary by Henri Nouwen…I am reading it for maybe the 5^th time, He is taking time out to stay in a Trappist monastery and is challenged by many questions about his life, his faith, his prayer, his everything…. They are questions that challenge me too.; Ghandi Now---a few articles; and a big book, The Good Book of Human Nature….The Bible from an archealogical and Historical point of view written by two agnostics, which I am enjoying . Everything else gets put on hold.