Searching for a Balance

 It’s not quite seventy degrees today. And by that, what I really mean is, it’s thirty degrees cooler than it was yesterday.  it was not thi...

 Here is a link to an article about solar summer - for Gretchen, and anybody else who's curious !

 I look out my window into the night, and see fireflies flashing everywhere. I’d like to see them close up, but it’s not supposed to get bel...

 "I would feed my people with finest wheat and fill them with honey from the rock."                                               ...

 "I wish there were more wild, undisturbed places, for both wildlife and for us as humans, and a greater understanding that restoring a...

 It was so hot and humid yesterday that I chose my pale chambray blue sheets when I changed the bed. Looking at blue does help in the summer...

 We've had some people leave the library for various reasons, so I've worked a few double shifts - not exactly double, but I stayed ...

 Yesterday was a most beautiful day - sunny, breezy, dry. A perfect day for washing a few windows, but other things had to come first. Today...

  May our knowledge of you become ever clearer That we may know the breadth of your blessings the length of your promises the height of your...

 "We temporarily added another member to the household this week when Hollyberry Red loped onto the terrace with a very wee rabbit. No ...

 Well, it's Pentecost, the end of the Easter season.  And I got out the red tablecloth for dinner. Tell of how th' ascended Jesus Ar...

 I fully intended to make a blogpost today, but it was so hot, over ninety. I kept working through it all, and finally put on a bit of air c...

 "I used to be a stupendous mouse-killer. Our Connecticut mice eat anything at all from my best wooden stirring spoon to a down cushion...

 Well, yesterday was forty days after the resurrection of Jesus, and now we are praying for the nine days before Pentecost. "The Spirit...

 "Carved into the high cross at Ahenny, County Tipperary, is a figure of a solitary monk sitting under a palm tree. Was he the founder ...

 "We must be slaves of either time or health; we cannot dispose of either as we will! If we thought of acting only when all the conditi...

May twenty second, and this is as warm as it got. We've been living in a dream world with summer-like temperatures, to the point where i...

 "In the mosaic that is the Church, each one of us is a living tile. While we know that each of us has value only as part of the whole,...

  We're going to read A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery, on the Literary Life podcast, and Angelina is explaining where her storie...

 As soon as the new pope was elected and he chose the name Leo XIV, I looked up Pope Leo XIII. I ordered a biography of him and two things h...

 A Happy Mother's Day to all mothers in the U.S. I hope cat mothers are included in this holiday. Be Joyful, Mary Be joyful, Mary, heav...

 Oh, the rain we've been having. And yesterday it was so cool and damp I actually shut all the windows and turned the heat back up. But ...

 It's pouring out now, and is supposed to continue tomorrow. But it was beautiful out earlier and I took advantage of it - I pulled up w...

 I saw two rainbows today, and almost by chance. We went to the supermarket as it was getting dark, with a thunderstorm looming. It didn...

  May is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season— Candlemas, Lady Day; But the La...

 "St. John's narrative of the Resurrection opens on the morning of the first day of the week. It is still dark - just the way it wa...

found on pinterest but if you find that hard to believe - here Happy Easter!

Good Friday  has some competition this year in the U.S. - it is two hundred and fifty years since Paul Revere took his famous ride up north ...