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Wow! Check out the new look for the Nyssa News. The New Nyssa Newsletter features a profile of one of our dancing saints, an interview with our parish administrator, Sherri Lynn Wood, and pictures from the Fall Retreat.
Fall Retreat is coming in October at Bishop’s Ranch, and the time to register is now! If you haven’t been to a Fall Retreat before, it offers a chance to unwind in the Napa countryside, to enjoy meals and conversations with other parish members and their families, and to participate in a variety of games, workshops, liturgies, opportunities to sing, and, yes, even afternoon naps. This year’s theme is nautical, so let’s see some sailors, pirates, sea monsters, and mermaids at Saturday’s social hour! For more information and to register, check out the flyer or ask Rick Storrs for more details.
"I’m middle-aged, single, use a power chair because of having osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as “the brittle bone disease.” This is both central--and peripheral--to my existence. I have a bi-chambered heart in that my sensibilities are both Christian and Buddhist. I am a transplanted Southerner glad never to have lost my accent entirely. I believe that every event is proof of the possible and therefore must not be discounted and that it’s never too late to have a wild and gracious future. I have a passionate attachment to DietPepsi and don’t particularly like vegetables! The last two years, since I’ve been concentrating on photography, I feel as if I’ve come home and finally found out what I’m supposed to do. For much of my life I’ve been a writer--poetry, journals, nonfiction, sermons while I was in seminary (I decided not to become ordained). This blog represents an attempt to come back to words, to juxtapose them with my photographs, and see what happens....”
Lynn Park’s blog appears several times a week at The Benign Eye. You can sign up to be notified when new entries appear.
To receive her photograph of the day, simply email Lynn at
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