[Regia-NA] Greetings from a newbie

[Tracie Brown]

Welcome, John!

My buddy Anne and I are busy researching monastic life during 
the Regia period, and we just bought some brown wool and 
linen to construct habits. Being ladies of a certain age and 
status, there is a certain attraction to a comfortable 
convent retirement plan ... at least we're counting on it 
being comfortable.  We don't care what the bishop says, we're 
keeping our lap dogs.

I'll be looking for "Stations of the Sun" -- it shouldn't be 
to hard to find in this university town.

By the way, where did you go to seminary?  My old college 
roommate went to Seabury-Western, and I loved going up to 
visit. We used to jerk her chain by telling people that she 
was studying to be a priestess. "I wish you wouldn't say 
that," she'd chide. "It sounds so heathen!"  (She was one of 
the first women officially ordained in the the Episcopal 
church.)  

Hope to meet you, too, though it may be a while.  I'm in 
Georgia. (Hence the linen habits -- linen is our friend.)

-- Tracie