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Hi welcome back to God's planningaining happy to have you listening with us this episode. I am

Father Joseph Anthony Cress. I am the chaplain at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,

Virginia and today I am joined by

Father Bonaventure Chapman up in Washington DC. Father Bonaventure how are you

doing what's happening for the you now? Doing great I'm excited it's fall. There's something about

kind of the fall weather we up in DC of course it's really hot in the summer and

this summer was was really hot and sticky and I just I hate that stuff but now we've switched into kind of the full fall effect so you have festive gourd season and you've got the kind of cool breezes, pumpkins.

I love fall.

I never take advantage of it.

I never feel like I fully live through fall.

I get excited and then I realize it's November

and it's time for winter.

And then winter's great.

I love winter too. But like fall is that season where I feel like I should always take advantage of it and like I don't know what that means so I think sitting around outside with apple cider or something I don't think I'll do that.

Well typically for fall like everybody has to

start wearing flannel and that doesn't really work for us that's true yeah I mean I

think we're missing out in a little bit of there but we can still sit around a campfire and

Yeah, candy corn yeah hot cider I mean candy corn kind of in the room or

something maybe there's little ways that you can and grabbing like the leaves start

turn there's this kind of beautiful tree we have in the

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