General Synod got to us today. We are tired, and, for the Diocese of New Westminster's representatives, we are getting very tired. This was during a presentation in the afternoon. Kevin Dixon is in our delegation - but tired also was Susan Brown, a representative of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, who sat at our table. She of course was much more theologically conservative than most of us, but was most gracious to us when she later was asked to address the Synod, and thanked us for our hospitality, as well as the Synod generally. We at our table really liked Susan, who is a professor of religious studies in London, Ontario. She was frank in her comment to synod. "I expected to see a little more compromise expressed at this synod," she told us.