You pretty much know it’s going to be a good week when your inbox is full of mail from daughters, good friends, clergy, sister, mother, kayaking buddies, all reporting on their weekends and making plans for this week.

Wanda will be bringing Riley to visit soon.  Meg parasailed for the first time. A good number of us watched the the Ducks and the Red Raiders on Saturday and the first episode of Ken Burns’s “The Roosevelts” on PBS last night.

Some of us went to church and heard Shelly’s excellent sermon, which I plan to send on to my Maui girls when it is posted on St. P’s Website.  The Rev. Ms. Shelly gave me her special blessing at the communion rail.  She is off soon to her own first rectorship in Seattle.  I feel exactly as I did when each of my daughters went away to college — so very happy and proud and totally bereft at the same time. (It’s not about me!)  How we will miss having this amazing woman in our midst!

Boo finished up this beautiful painting of the native Maui plant kolii  (Trematelobelia macrostachys).

Here she is studying the real thing on the job:

Joannie is studying The Bad Girls of the Bible over at the Methodist.  (I pretty much think they were all trouble makers, right up to the BVM, and, frankly,  I have a lot of questions I would like to put to her!  The BVM, not Joannie.)

Kate insists she only went in to work one day this weekend, but I’m not sure that’s entirely true.  At least she had time to write to her mother. 🙂

And Sellers wrote to firm up paddling plans for tomorrow.

Here is good.