Dear Friends,
Were any of you wondering why I was not in the picture of the Pope, Mother Teresa and Monsignor George Tracy that I posted in my last entry?
You may have thought to yourself, "Why is Jim Dougherty not in that picture? He's Catholic, isn't he?"
Well, as one of our local society magazines delicately phrases it when someone is left out of a picture (often for good reason!) : they were "out of camera range".
I love that phraseology.
So let me say for the record, I was "out of camera range" for that very beautiful picture of my old friend, George.
I was 5,220 miles "out of camera range" (which is the actual distance from Kansas City to Rome).
But the next picture you will see on this blog will be of me and another very important and impressive person.
Stay tuned!
Jim