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About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Retired Episcopal priest
Location	Portland, Oregon, United States
Introduction	I'm 76 now, and have been retired for 14 years. I love singing in the Bach Cantata Choir of Portland and am looking forward to our tour of East German, to Bach's venues, in 2018. I am an Episcopal priest, doing lots of supply work, but enjoy just going to church at Trinity Cathedral, where the music is excellent, preaching, liturgy, and social ministries are top-notch. I volunteer there in the bookstore and a food pantry that serves the poor.
Interests	Music (mainly singing in groups); family (four grandsons who keep me young);working in my yard; working-out at gym; travel; reading, both novels/mysteries and non-fiction (biographies, e.g.)
Favorite movies	LaVera, my wife, and I rarely to to movies, but I'd love to see something one day. I always read the reviews in the Friday paper and dream. Perhaps we can catch re-runs. We did manage to see "Dunkirk" and want to see the four women in "Book Club." We've watched some films on TV, like "Forrest Gump," a real tear-jerker and very, very poignant! We're dull, I suppose, but public TV is our entertainment outlet.
Favorite music	I'd fill a book! Well, anything by Bach, or Brahms, or Britten or Barber, with Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Parry, thrown in. Maybe Bach's 5th Brandenburg for all-time fave?
Favorite books	I've read a lot of non-fiction lately (this is December, 2016), one a biography of LaVera's old boss at Bethel College, the late Winfield Fretz. He was one in a million and his daughter did a great job in putting together this memoir. I'm enjoying now a novel by Alan Hollinghurst, and thoroughly enjoyed his "Line of Beauty" awhile back. I'm trying to get into a friend's serious, academic study of money and power in the Episcopal Church and will do that soon. An update (as of 31 May 2018): that book is currently being reviewed by a friend for The Historiographer, the quarterly publication of the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists (NEHA) of which I'm the Book Editor. I'm sure my friend will do a great review; I was surprised that she said yes to my request. I'm also currently reviewing a book on House of the Redeemer, in NYC, where I stayed last summer for the NEHA conference. Also, another book by one of my favorites, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, "Called," a collection of her talks to newly ordained priests.