Comments on: Eis Polla Eti, Despota http://kevinbasil.com/2004/05/30/eis-polla-eti-despota/ Decimation & Reconstruction: a weblog Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:38:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: sockmonk http://kevinbasil.com/2004/05/30/eis-polla-eti-despota/comment-page-1/#comment-408 sockmonk Sat, 05 Jun 2004 12:57:38 +0000 http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2004/05/30/eis-polla-eti-despota/#comment-408 I've thought about this for several days now, and I think I've concluded that I'm not going to publically blog about the experience of being tonsured. Not just because of time constraints, but also because it's a bit too personal to discuss this publicly. Maybe in a closer family forum, or even by email, but not "in the open" as it were. Hope you understand. I will say this much. I quickly decided, after being called lots of different things that weekend (all good ;-) , that if someone wants to address me as "Reader [Name]]", I greatly prefer "Reader Theophan" to "Reader Wesley". "Wes" and "Wesley" also work too, but putting "Reader" together with "Wesley" just sounds a bit too... overloaded to me. I'll also say that we all have a lot to learn about being readers, and we're very aware of that fact. The rest of the parish is in some ways collectively scratching its head too. I’ve thought about this for several days now, and I think I’ve concluded that I’m not going to publically blog about the experience of being tonsured. Not just because of time constraints, but also because it’s a bit too personal to discuss this publicly. Maybe in a closer family forum, or even by email, but not “in the open” as it were. Hope you understand.

I will say this much. I quickly decided, after being called lots of different things that weekend (all good ;-) , that if someone wants to address me as “Reader [Name]]”, I greatly prefer “Reader Theophan” to “Reader Wesley”. “Wes” and “Wesley” also work too, but putting “Reader” together with “Wesley” just sounds a bit too… overloaded to me. I’ll also say that we all have a lot to learn about being readers, and we’re very aware of that fact. The rest of the parish is in some ways collectively scratching its head too.

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