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I participated in the Nuevo Amanacer (New Dawn) conference a few weeks ago at the Kanuga Retreat Center near Hendersonville, NC. As the biannual meeting of the Latino/Hispanic ministries of the Episcopal Church, I had opportunities to practice my Spanish.Although many of the attendees are fluent in both English and Spanish, my Spanish is halting, but I greeted everyone with a hearty “encantada”.Although it can mean haunted or bewitched, it is the common response meaning, “pleased to meet you” and I remember the word as a cognate of “enchanted”.I attended the conference by myself so every session and workshop was an opportunity to meet someone new. Almost 400 people attended from all parts of the United States as well as Columbia, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentina, El Salvador, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico and more. “Encantada, encantada, encantada, encantanda.”When I am at home, I have a tendency to hang around with people I know mostly through my work or church, so it was enrich
