Searching for a Balance

 At ten or eleven last night, visibility was low and snow was falling hard, but no wind. This morning the wind picked up, but the snow wasn...

 The snow started around or right after seven thirty; it isn't a blizzard yet, but they're saying it's going to be. Right now it...

 "Life means the fullest possible give and take between the living creature and its environment: breathing, feeding, growing, changing....

 "When we life our eyes from the crowded by-pass to the eternal hills; then, how much the personal and practical things we have to deal...

 I just finished In This House of Brede with an online group - an excellent story! So many characters, so many personalities and lots going ...

Spring is definitely in the air! It's warmer, but not terribly; but the birds are singing, the daylight lasts longer, the paths my broth...

 When I want to wash my face, I shut the bathroom door to keep Daisy out; she will come in when the faucet turns on and get in the way. Some...

 "Faith... is a great cannon which hurls man out beyond the boundaries of the universe into the world of the infinite. It is not to be ...

 Snow was predicted last night and all day today, and by morning light, everything looked fresh. Then around eight, visibility dropped and t...

 A grandfather brought in his little one to the library today - he was so good with her; he seemed to have a childlike quality of his own th...

  Father almighty, you bring peace to those who trust in you. Make us your ambassadors of peace in this world of strife, that all peoples ma...

 There are icicles everywhere. Riding along, you see scads of them, hanging on almost every building. I don't know why some buildings do...

 I realized Daisy wasn't in the basement (where she spends so much time, watching at ground level all the activity at the feeder). She w...

 Well, the storm is hanging on; they changed the snow's end time to eleven. So, it's still going. Inside, I am hanging on to my wint...

  O ye frost and cold, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all forever. O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above...

 The thermometer outside my window says it's ten degrees, and it's going to get colder. It will be very cold for a few days, but tha...

  the glory of the Lord.”   -   Exodus 16:7

 "At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they d...

 

 They predicted snow all day today, starting at five o'clock. Then they said it would snow 'til three. There was a forty-four percen...

 We're going to have snow Saturday. I'm looking forward to it, though it won't be much. Today there was sun, and I slipped outsi...

 Our snow has been gone for a while; the temperatures are in the forties - a January thaw, I guess. There may be a snowstorm brewing for Thu...

I've come across mention of Thomas Traherne a couple of times lately and wonder if I should get some of his writings.  "Principles ...

 "True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is ...

 A tufted titmouse sitting under the back awning, working on breaking into his sunflower seed. and a squirrel we've observed, twice, sit...

 and a charming one, after snow throughout the night, and now everything looks clean and fresh. And, my wish for everyone who comes here, wh...

 Well, it was almost fifty today with lots of rain; the snow almost disappeared. Then suddenly, at nine tonight, the winds picked up and the...

 I'm enjoying the Christmas rest. We had snow again, on Friday, all night. It's been mostly cold, with a warm day every now and then...

This is the irrational season when love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason there'd have been no room for the child...

 Last year, I was looking for a gingerbread spice recipe/formula - I had lost mine. I found four or five and made one - wasn't too keen ...

I gussied up a little thrifted wreath with a short strand of fairy lights and some bright ribbon. It's on the front door. It has "f...