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So my friends and family I need your support and prayers. I know we cover many different faith beliefs and practices. I also know we respect each others faith. I have been asked to consider entering the process to become a deacon. Please keep me in your prayers and thoughts and prayers as I go through this process.

So here it is a true oxymoron. A Conservative Jesuit. He has the reputations of being a Social Justice Bishop. If he is Social Justice and can reform the church even a bit it will be glorious.

So it is a busy time. I moved into a really cute little apartment. I bought a new HP laptop and have learned how to do some things for myself, like change wireless networks. Am so proud of this old women. Still in Ocean View just not as low down. Have almost the same view even just from further away. Lost of kitties and really nice landlords.

Long week in LA but a good one. Met some amazing people and had a really good time. Came home to a wonderful gift, rain. Lots of it, I got so wet unloading the car I had to change clothes. And the rain continued through the evening. It is amazing what rain does here. It is nice to be home and employed

Marna call me Please

In English that is Merry Christmas. This is my first Christmas in the tropics, I wish I could say I miss the snow and the cold but I definitely do not. May you all have a glorious Holiday whatever you celebrate and a wonder filled New Year.

It is lovely today, warm and clear. We had a hard rain yesterday and the desert is blooming. What a beautiful place to spend Christmas.

This is a simple wish of a glorious birthday for my lovely (wonderful and much loved, by me and others)daughter in law. You know who you are have a happy day.

When one goes to the beach for the first time in months one should remember to reapply the sunscreen. There are areas where I was not tan, now those areas are red. My forehead is pretty funny as only half of it is burned. Oh well it won't last long and then I will be more tan. Did I mention the dolphins and the sword fish in my earlier post. No, well there is this sword fish with an identity crisis who has been swimming with the dolphins for the last several months and Sondra finally saw it today when she swam out to them. The dolphins were jumping and spinning so we, who don't snorkel, could watch and see easily from the beach. God how I love living here.

I am about,maybe, to become the owner of something I have always said I did not want and could see no use of ever owning. A four wheel drive car, a Jeep Cherokee to be exact. Ok, why the change of heart. You should see some of the roads on this island. Most are good, but I know people who live on jeep trails that are called by street names. I am finally in a place where you need four wheel drive, oh yes, and there are close beaches I hear that are four wheel drive beaches. Not only is it four wheel drive but it has air conditioning. Another thing I have in the past forsowern. So where is this miricle coming from. My landlady has offered me the opportunity to buy her 2001 jeep for what she owes. If the credit union agrees I will do this. I left my much loved mazda pickup on the mainland so I will need something to drive here as I am staying. Now that that is, I hope, taken care of all I have to do is find a way to save ( make) enough money to start a tiny house. I love living here I am healther here than I have been in years and I will stay.

As I often done in the last few years I spent my birthday more of less by myself. Unlike some other times I had a wonderful day. Went to church at St. Jude this morning, worked on my rock wall location this afternoon then took myself out for what is with out question the best hamburger in the know world. A Mike's Special at the Desert Rose in Ocean View, Hawaii. All in all a lovely day.