So, gang, this morning was supposed to be taken up with a hurricane post... then, breaking news intervened.

Put simply, church, all prayers to everyone else among us feeling the brunt of Irene -- hold fast, be safe, don't do anything crazy, and when it's over, please, send word that you made it out OK. (And if you could, please send one up that these pages' Home Office doesn't flood, again, for the second time in a fortnight.)

Even in the dead of August, as if things ad intra weren't wild enough. Above all, though, hope you're hanging in there and, even for the weather, getting a good and restful weekend.

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