… I think I’ve finally gotten the Parish Profile and its Appendix completed, signed, sealed, delivered, approved, vetted, reviewed, second-guessed, word-smithed, argued over, tweaked, polished, revised, saved, PDFed, and ready for posting on our parish website. <\/p>\n
Actually, in some ways novel-writing is a lot easier. Or at least less complicated.<\/p>\n
And, in some ways, less fraught with peril, be it from parishioners who think you’ve slighted some favorite group of theirs, or misrepresented them<\/s> the parish, or whatever, or from what you’ve written wrongly playing a direct role in getting the wrong person into the rector’s role.<\/p>\n
Eep!<\/p>\n
I’ll post the URL (for those as are interested) once I’ve confirmation that it’s available. I’m sort of proud of the final effort, though there are things I would have done a lot differently, had I had free rein to do so. But I knew this job was dangerous when I took it …<\/p>\n
Anyway, now you understand the relative dearth of postage around here today … or, looking at the clock, I guess yesterday is more accurate.<\/p>\n
And now to bed, and the sleep of the relatively contented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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