The Alma Mater has granted you enough age and experience to unfold to you what your remaining time will hold. But that does not mean there cannot be surprises. The lives and troubles of your younger sisters are endlessly surprising - and you enjoy being part of their community, for as long as God allows.

You are the eldest sister. Since you have never been ambitious, you are sometimes seen by others as part of the furniture. When you were young, it took you a while to get into the rhythms of life in the cloister, but over time, you have come to appreciate the beauty of the community and the security and physical comfort the Abbey provides. You have also embraced a nurturing, motherly role. Beyond your talent for soothing their small troubles, you are often sought out by the younger nuns for emotional guidance and comfort.

Perhaps because of that motherly role you have for your sisters, you have often been called upon to care for them in times of sickness, and taking the role of infirmarian was an obvious move by the former abbess Henrietta when the post became available. You brew raspberry leaf tea for menstrual cramps; draw thorns from skin with salt paste; apply cabbage leaves to burns; and nurse the sick. You cared for Henriettta during her last illness, and also cared for the current Abbess Joan, through a recent bout of serious ill-health.