The rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Apalachicola, Florida is looking ahead, toward the parish bicentennial in 2036, and asked if I'd assemble some memories  of our Time there, fourteen bright and happy years from July 1984 through September 1998. With help from Linda, I've put together a mind-dump, a disorganized stream of consciousness sort of memoir that just keeps adding-to the longer I sit here and type.  Our Apalachicola chapter of life came together largely because, newly ordained at the Time, I was quitting and turning over to my partner my defense industry consulting business in Pennsylvania, Washington and Australia; and bringing to its inevitable end my six or seven years as an adjunct professor of political science teaching defense weapons systems acquisition courses for the University of West Florida; as well as considering a call to be rector of a parish in the Diocese of Pennsylvania - - when my mother phoned long distance from Panama City to tell me, at hom...