Would appreciate prayers about this situation. Ended up emailing my priests about it since it’s taking its toll on my spiritual health too…

Unsure if any #Narthex folks have advice but I assume similar experiences exist for priests who were in seminary full time plus parish internships and all that? Just wondering how I’m supposed to exist within a time and space constraint that doesn’t promote having time and space for existing. ⚓️

Cross posting this w/ alt text from a librarian forum to here in case anyone here has advice from a non-library perspective. I’m just drowning rn and in need of more advice than my therapist’s typical “well what do YOU think you should do?”

Well spit on John Adams grave already why don’t ya?? Do I agree with the UU on much? Nope. But do I agree that their right to exist in our nations military matters? Yep!

Curious whether #library folks, public or otherwise, have thoughts on a lack of policy and procedure when it comes to patrons asking for mental healthcare? Specifically when someone asks to use our phones, which are not for public use, to call a psych hospital…

Prayers for private intention please. Was going to have a great week and it got dashed hard and fast so I’m just done with it all.

Been listening to a lot of Rage Against The Machine and Lamb of God as we approach the 250th “birthday” of the nation and man it’s hard not to be angry about it all… “Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes / Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal” - Bulls on Parade // RATM

My deeply conservative mother has just discovered Talarico and his “false teachings” as she calls them, and boy is she gonna be mad when she discovers we both have the same degree, both from PCUSA seminaries.

Update: almost fell asleep drinking coffee so I went home since I have an 8.5 hour closing shift tonight to reserve energy for (almost fell asleep on the drive) and I’m very mad about not having the energy for anything except work.

Around the corner from church this morning to finish an essay for class and I’m still unsure I can make it this morning due to exhaustion. I’m going to push myself because there’s a young adult meetup after service but the bags under my eyes might tell a story this morning. Prayers appreciated. ⚓️

I’ve had to check it and I didn’t realize it going thru it but I’ve had 4 days off since April 1st. Someone tell me I’m going to be okay because I’m currently sitting here sobbing that ive worked so hard that I’ve missed so much life in between…I literally celebrated my 30th birthday at work…

fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202... A damn shame MIT is doing this to their faculty, students, and staff.

Subskeeting MIT news but it could be any number of places. 📚

Kinda shocked based on my answers but I’ll take it! Always loved Schmemann!

Someone got shot next to my library last week and we started off the week after a long weekend with someone throwing up in our trash can by the door, saying “oh I’m not sick” and then immediately leaving. Nothing like a long week of that kinda stuff to make me want academic librarianship even more.

Sherry Cobbler (Anders Erikson’s way w/ curaçao), a discussion post about values in the history of public libraries, and a hockey game in an hour…what a day off lol

With the MLB wearing poppies on their jerseys in honor of Memorial Day, I implore you to read the poem that gave us the reason the red poppy became a symbol of the lost; "In Flanders Fields" by Lt. John McCrae of the Canadian army.

Crying myself to sleep, partially due to sadness and partially due to pain from working on my feet for 8 hours, the eve of my birthday feels about right for who I am as a person. I’m so tired of working so hard yall…I want to live not simply survive….

Sending this to my non-religious friends just to feel something lol. Also I got TEC but also, I’m an old metalhead so, no offense to those who love the music listed, but I knew almost 0% of the artists and I don’t watch TV or movies so…take it with a few grains of salt.

When your boss begs, pouts, and stomps her feet like a child trying to get ice cream in order to get you to close on your 30th birthday and you give in….my therapist is gonna be so mad 🙃

Got Farrer, followed by Coleridge, Williams, Keble, and Andrewes. All the more reason to move them up my list to read more of!

Trying not to be too excited but I interviewed for my first ever full time job yesterday and I am SO excited to have stable income and a regular schedule. I want this job so so bad. Is it more than 40k/year? No. But it has ✨benefits✨ *Yes I am turning 30 and still never held full-time employement

Forcing me to tell a patron that the books they lost in a house fire have un-waiveable fees? Yeah that’s someone else’s job. I ain’t doing that.

Men/Masc Presenting folks! A fashion question from someone who does NOT understand men’s fashion as I’ve always had a specific uniform for work: now that I’ll be working in libraries more often than food service, what should I wear that’s “nice”? I’m trying to dress up and stay cool in the heat.

3 days off in an entire month is totally normal and healthy yeah? 🙃🙃🙃🙃

“This present moment used to be an unimaginable future” What a great line from my library conference this morning.

My parish is actually having a gathering of young adults after church at a local bar/restaurant. I’m so so so happy that I might find my people you all have no idea. ⚓️

My spiritual director recommended I write out a "rule of life" that fits my actual life right now rather than trying, and ultimately failing, to live by some hopeful standard set by someone like St. Benedict. Anyone have a good way to set up at least an outline of a rule? ⚓🕯️

Not to be all “everything for a reason” cause I despise that but I got waitlisted for a class I wanted this summer semester and I’m going to take that as a real and actual sign from God to take some breaks this summer.

Working on an “oh shit I’m turning 30” substack post and by golly I’ll quite Sleep Token and the Prayer Book in the same post somehow I swear lol

Hi I can’t sleep and am instead having a mid-life (or quarter life; depends on which research you read) crisis as I look at turning 30 in a few weeks time. I feel so…lost. I’m burned out. I’m divorced. I have little to show for my time here. I just wonder what I’m supposed to DO.

How do I make my mother understand that my ADHD meds are not “a sham by pharmaceutical companies” and actual things I need??

Ahh damnit now my mother will have this moron to cite when she tells me to go off my meds “because you’re fine”. great wonderful so happy about that 🙃🙃🙃

Crying in the car after work is a sign that I need a damn break. More than like a day and a half off but like a true and real vacation. I mean my marriage imploded before we took a honeymoon so like…what if i take a solo-moon? Is that a thing? I want to make it a thing.

Anyone know what to do with my mother and I talking church (already a precarious position w/ her political stances) and her pointing to my “all are welcome” Episcopal shield laptop sticker and telling me it’s BS? ⚓️

In case #PWHL fans here care, I think I’m picking Boston Fleet, based mainly on goaltender Aerin Frankel since, as a former goalie, I appreciate an immensely talented tender! TO THE BRIG!

“But then she thought about her students: “If I left, who was going to be their voice?” she wondered. “Who was going to protect their books?”” For all that is holy please stop glorifying vocational awe in libraries. We’re allowed to not be okay!! 19thnews.org/2026/04/book...

Alrighty Narthex, I’m reading a text on theology and the arts (T&T Clark’s edited volume) and wondering on first thought: what’s everyone’s favorite non-religious art that you feel provokes spiritual experiences? Especially interested in music but any art is welcome for discussion! ⚓️

Alright #PWHL fans! I’m finally properly getting into the league. Loved it since its inception but now I’m starting to actively watch it during the Walter Cup! But I’m a North Carolinian! Pitch me your home team as a team to love! (H/T: @evangelinewarren.com for being a huge reason I’m into it now!)

Public library life involves putting on my chaplain hat waaaaay too often…

I may not get there as often as I should be I love my parish for things like this: “During our 10:15 worship service on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, the lectionary reading from Acts, which tells the story of the first Pentecost, will be read in several languages in addition to English.” ⚓️

I’m done with my semester and I have to say, working 30+ hours a week and doing two full time classes was so tough. I had almost a solid month without a day off between the two jobs and my schooling suffered. Unsure how I’m going to keep up with this over the summer with 3 classes + internship.

I love libraries but man do I want back into academics so I can actually feel useful. I just feel so helpless doing what’s effectively social work at the public library when I’m NOT qualified to. I’m not even a full librarian y’all. God bless those who love this part of the job but it ain’t me. 📚

I’ve tried like 10 times to write something to make sense of this but honestly I’m just gonna email my spiritual director and meet with her for the first time in like 3-4 months.

Every time I see reference to an Anglican theologian of note that I’ve not read I get kind of upset that I didn’t go to an episcopal seminary. Like I love UPSem dearly, but being an Episcopalian, wanting to be a priest (maybe still someday)…the only Anglican theologians I read where on my own time.

I realized something this morning while scrolling and waiting for the Tylenol to kick in but I’m just describing a pilgrimage so that’s the posture I’m gonna take planning this, including consulting my spiritual director, and looking into this prayerfully rather than recreationally. ⚓️

Being in the service industry sucks cause my body aches just enough to keep me from getting meaningful rest after a long closing shift. I got MAYBE 3.5 hours sleep and I have a paper to write that my brain did not get enough sleep for so coffee and Tylenol at 6 AM I guess…

Alright. If I planned a bucket list trip for myself to England for this fall to do a “see Anglican sites” visit, where would I need to go besides Canterbury and Durham as an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian who’s never been to England before? (a pipe dream of an idea but I like planning trips!) ⚓️

The newest stage-on-film Macbeth with David Tennent and Cush Jumbo was gripping and thrilling!

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.