I continue to be confused by the uproar. All the Episcopalians I grew up with would have considered it a non-issue. (Well, almost all. There was the family that thought horoscopes were a tool of the devil, but I think they ended up in a different denomination.)
Heh.
There was a kerfuffle when he was first made Bishop and some congregations de-affiliated and joined up with foreign Anglican communities. It's deffinately been a "thing".
I think its worth noting that Robinson was asked before Rick Warren was announced as leading
his
invocation -- this isn't a patch job, it was the plan from the start.
Dana, I think that's a bit too much, but it looks restrained next to "Apple" and "Bronx."
They can call her Sera for short if necessary -- Sera and Vi work pretty good, IMHO.
The new Garner-Affleck baby is named Seraphina Rose Elizabeth.
Huh. I like Violet so much more than Seraphina.
I've known a few Seraphinas but none of them were white. In my head its like a blonde-haired blue-eyed Sheniqua. (A name my blonde-haired blue-eyed sister has always wanted to use, actually.)
A friend of mine has a white friend named Mei Ling. Always referred to as "my white friend Mei Ling."
And if she doesn't like Seraphina or any of the variants, she has two middle names (one of which has several variants of its own) to fall back on.
They might use Sally I suppose, since it's a nickname for Sarah. It sort of fits the mid-century vibe of Violet.
I just overheard the manager of another department in our group complain to one of her people that they didn't have the scanner they really want yet, so the document was going to have to go through another department to get scanned as a jpg, and I popped up and mentioned than I knew how to use the department's copier as a scanner (one of my co-workers showed me how last week). Now I've got them thanking me right and left for showing them!
Now I've got them thanking me right and left for showing them!
Way to up the job security. "Layoffs? Layoff anybody but Kathy, she knows how to work the machines!"
