The Most Evocative Image of 2014

Not like the reassuringly large swirling blue and green images of the planet from the moon. Everyone is in the picture...including the amazing, hospitable friends and family omitted from the previous post possibly due to age, defective memory, the distraction of packing, and the common cold.  So here goes, all you people up there in that picture.

Washington State:  Father John and Kathy Pierce, Father John Garvey, his daughter Maria, of Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church in Tacoma. Brian, Mark, Allan, Vera, Kaitlin, Matthew Overland, Eric, Erin, and Audrey Simonson, and Mary Giles. Upper left of white dot.

Oregon State: Father Steven and Mona Soot, their hospitable children, Deacon Ed Gallegher, all of St Anne's Orthodox Church in Corvallis. Mid left of white dot.

California State: Louisa Carter at whose Santa Rosa house , Peggy and John Ericson were at lunch with me, and drove me there and then to Mother Susanna of Our Lady of Khazan Skete where I spent the night. with the sisters.  Diana Dew from Berkeley trekked all the the way across the bay to visit. In Pasadena, Martyn Belmont, an ex but always sister-in-law. Lower left of white dot.

Alabama State: Father Elias of Holy Annunciation Church in Mobile, and all the folks who celebrated the feast of the Entry of the Theotokos in a very idiosyncratic church: Malbis Memorial Church, in Daphne, which has a very interesting history. But we were all happy to be at lunch together afterwards. Lower right of white dot.

Maryland State: cousin Susanna Buffum Goodwin, and her guardian squirrel Big Boy whose fur made him seem to wearing Jockey shorts.  I couldn't take him seriously. Wolf and Odette Lehmann want postcards from Morocco. All of Rockville.. Mid right of white dot.

Boston, the center of the universe and center of white dot. Tim Bell, who trained up from Connecticut in brutal weather (all we really have here in winter) Ilona O'Connor of Cambridge,and Simone Charpentier and Fernando Torres, Martin and Laura Torres of Jamaica Plain,  Father Robert and Susan Arida, Deacon Ted and Anastasia Feldman, Deacon Chris Westrate,  and Jason Pittman, (the generous donors of my water purification kit) Michael Clarke and Martin, Inga Leonova, Michael and Russell, and the whole parish of Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral. The Haley House Invincibles, housing the homeless for decades, gathering to send me off from the Cafe in Dudley.  Ellen Cole, a Brookliner, Lee and Yonatan, Mira and Uriah Cohen, Juliana Orr-Weaver, the Cambridge Crew.

Thank you all for a wonderful, wild, and ultimately peaceful stay in your beautiful city