I've spent the last two days in Santa Fe with former seminary colleague, Raymond Raney, now the priest at Holy Cross Episcopal Church and his partner Linda, who is the Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church (and a gifted organist of the PhD variety). What I did not know prior to planning this stay with Raymond and Linda is that my former seminary New Testament professor, Richard Valantasis and his partner Janet are living here now (after a short two year stay at Emory and Candler in Atlanta.) I enjoyed dinner and catching up with the gang on Saturday night. On Sunday I worshiped at Raymond's church, strolled the Plaza in Old Town, hiked at the Audabon, and listened to Linda play the recently installed Fisk organ at her church. Then I got a back scenes tour of the organ "guts" and learned more about the intricacies and physics of the organ. Linda is brilliant!


Oh, I almost forgot. At the recommendation of good friends in Eugene, OR who used to live and work in Santa Fe, Jennifer and Kristin, we found the Chocolate Maven and ate desserts. (Note the "Best of Santa Fe" for 7 years running.


Tomorrow I head south to El Paso. I spoke with Sister Donna tonight and she says that things (meaning, violence) have calmed down recently in Juarez. She even suggested that I stay a couple of nights in the Colonia in the home of one of the women. Since I haven't been preparing myself to do so, and since I have other connections to make in the El Paso area mid-week, I will likely just go back and forth each day and not stay overnight in Juarez. But, we'll see what tomorrow - and the week ahead - brings . . .
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