Searching for a Balance

 I've been reading an article in Plough , an interview with Ken Burns, the filmmaker and historian.  "This word 'liberty' h...

 She fits in it perfectly. She hides underneath it, so no one can see her! except her little face She chews on the edges, bangs it around, r...

 The pie came out well, I decorated the table with lots of red, white and blue, I made strawberry coconut milk ice cream and we stayed in wi...

 I was busily peeling and cutting apples when I noticed that a couple of them had a Liberty Bell-shaped sticker. That's it! It's in ...

 The heat's intense and the air conditioner is humming, which makes me feel in another world. I'm sure the cats also feel that way, ...

  Christ is alive! No longer bound To distant years in Palestine, But saving, healing, here and now, And touching every place and time. In e...

 Less than an hour before dark, and I see the sun gilding the trees in the back yard. After an overcast and rain on-and-off day. Tomorrow wi...

 "As he bumped the car up the drive he deplored with sudden impatience the inescapable and impossible demands that his children make up...

 "Patience...is really a matter of faith in the providence of God. If we can accept in our heart that this unpleasant moment is a vehic...

I sat at my sewing table a few minutes ago and there before me was a beautiful sunset, all pink and gold. I have no idea how to photograph s...

trying to find coolness in the grass  "Nature is no mere gathering of atoms but rather the outward form of God's imagination."...

 "What grieves us most, O Lord, is playing without joy your beautiful music, you who move us from day to day. We grieve at being always...

 "It was because Damerosehay did not change that in this chaotic, tumbling, terrifying world it was a place of such comfort."     ...

 "It was the glorified beauty of the familiar and habitable earth that she saw now, the trees and flowers and creatures that made up th...

  Spirit of the Father and the Son, ripen your fruits in our hearts: Grant us patience and gentleness, charity, joy, and peace. - from Magni...

 "What is the peace of the world? Perhaps we would call it security or safety; the sense that physical walls and human strength, burgeo...

My brother just brought up the smaller air conditioner for the spare room. We used to bring it up in time for July 4th, but it's been 90...

 May the Lord send forth the Spirit and renew the face of the earth! Amen.

I dreamed about Dolly last night. She was outside, exploring; she was well! She was Dolly. It was so good to see her. Make of that what you ...

 I went to Mass this morning in the city. The cathedral choir sang "If Ye Love Me" by Thomas Tallis . Just beautiful.  This mornin...

 "The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own', or 'real...

 We've had a lot of windy days lately, and today was one of them, but bright blue and clear. The temperatures are up and down, like they...

Perfect days like this make you forget the ones that went before - it was wonderful. Sunny, temperate, very breezy. I went out and wished I...

  Refrain: I received the living God, and my heart is full of joy. I received the living God, and my heart is full of joy. 1 Jesus said: ...

The purple-leafed plum was blooming a week ago, and it was exciting to see: the first blooming tree. Four days later, it was over! We did ha...

 "Whoever said that to speak about Christ and to spread his doctrine, you need to do anything unusual or remarkable? Just live your ord...

I tend to plan my blogging for the end of the day, but it often happens that I'm tired, or involved in something, or it's too late, ...

 "We must contain ourselves in patience, remembering each morning that our main job is to love God and to serve him and if we don't...

  a woodland themed towel from Debra! I figure that normal temperatures for this time of year should be in the mid-fifties. Not this week, t...

  God of everlasting mercy, ...increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand at what font they h...

 I hope everyone had a lovely Easter observance. Our orthodox friends will have it tomorrow. The season lasts until Pentecost - we have a ni...