I’ll admit, it’s been a wonderful week of rest. Aside from celebrating evening church services and Papa Thanasi attending a few meetings and taking a few important calls -he’s been able to take a needed break. We’ve walked amidst Seattle’s blossoming glory and played games of chachoka sipping decaf on our sunny deck. He’s been attending to our garden (planting lettuce that we’ll have all summer) and focusing attention on his selected girlfriends (yup his once 40,000 bees have been in distressed mode) as they lost their queen. Sunday (along with Tom Themelis) we were able to acquire a new QUEEN. We released her Thursday into the hive with a grand introduction of singing a boisterous rendition of “God Save The Queen!” After tonight’s Akathist service we are well aware how important our Panayia aids connection with God as our mother - just as the our worker bees need a queen to save the hive!