Searching for a Balance

 “A key spiritual principle is that grace is sheer gift. And when you cling to a gift, hoarding it for yourself, you undermine its nature as...

 Such a beautiful day! The haze from fires in Canada has been enough to make your eyes burn, but not today! Dry air and a breeze. Our plants...

 Last week an old gentleman came into the library; he was looking for another book by a favorite author. I told him where to find it, but wh...

 "So, go forth, O generous apostles of Jesus Christ, go wherever he calls you. I know you will run into great labors, serious difficult...

 

 "...I think all beauty adds to our heritage, whether it be the flawless purity of the Greek in the Parthenon or the rich and lavish sp...

 We went on a little field trip to the cathedral in the city, a pilgrimage.  I had been there for Sunday mass a few times - it's a moder...

I heard the voice of Jesus say, I am this dark world's light; Look unto me, thy morn shall rise, and all thy day be bright. Margary, who...

the little landscape round was green and woody, and refresh'd the eye*   Summer is moving along too fast. I've worked extra a number...

 "When you love those who hate you, you confuse and confound them, taking away the very energy that feeds their hatred. We want God to ...

A rabbit got into the garden last week. He didn't seem to eat anything we would regret. They seem to find so much among the grass, God b...

 With all the mentions I've made of Raynor Winn's The Salt Path over the past few years, I feel it incumbent upon me to make this po...

  This is my song, O God of all the nations, A song of peace for lands afar and mine; This is my home, the country where my heart is; Here a...

I had just shut off the a/c, opened my side window, and was watching the pretty sparkle of the fireflies, when someone on the street behind ...

 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...