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About Me
- The Eclectic Cleric
- Portland, Maine, United States
- Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, sailing summers in the San Juan Islands and warding off the gloominess of the incessant winter rains by reading voraciously and drinking more than my fair share of Seattle's Best espresso. Five (count 'em) college degrees, making me an honest-to-God Crimson Dawg Duck Beaver Viking. Have served Unitarian Universalist congregations in both Midland Texas and on Nantucket Island (which made the 2004 election VERY interesting), as well as numerous other smaller UU fellowships along the I-5 corridor in Washington and Oregon. More recently, I relocated from the affluent faux rural suburbs of "the Neighborhood of Boston" (just beyond the Old North Bridge and through the woods, about five miles from the site of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond), to the bustling shores of Casco Bay at the southern edge of "Down East." But my ministry at the First Parish in Portland ME was cut short by a diagnosis of Lung Cancer in February, 2008. I currently live outside of Sacramento CA, retired with a permanent and total medical disability, as I battle with my disease and continue to ponder what God has in store for me next.
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Hey Jensen,
Valery E.C. called me to clue me in. I am so sorry to learn of your turn of health. I have read all of your One Day Isle......you bring insight and strength to this. You are in my thoughts. Gene RR
It is so amazing and gratifying to see how the word of my illness spreads from person to person through the vast community of souls whose lives I've touched and whose lives have touched mine, and brings them back into my life again. Truly, a George Bailey moment. Keep holding me in your hearts, and know how much it means to me to hear from you, even though I can't always answer each of you in person.
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