Searching for a Balance

She does stop, once in a while

My neighbor is planning to move, and she said to me, "You once told me this was pretty - do you want it?" Yes, it's beaut...

I guess after this, I'll have no reason to forget that fritters are a nice thing for supper once in a while. I made this recipe  (...

I sing the mighty power of God, that made the mountains rise, that spread the flowing seas abroad, and built the lofty skies. I sing the...

I tried Anna's Schoolhouse Baked Beans . The reason being that it seemed very like something my mother used to make, and I never knew h...

It may be that you are tired of photos of Dolly enjoying music Dolly listening to the week-nightly jazz program but I'm not.  :D

A Polish woman came up to me after Mass last week to tell me she's a grandmother. I know her very little, but that's okay - she was ...

This morning a man came into the library with a photo of a bear he'd seen at a lake in our town. It was standing near a tree, and looked...

This used to be a forsythia. It got taken over by these wild roses. I look around the yard at the brook's edge and they are everywhere,...

"The life of God is lived within us, within the deepest center of our being. Man becomes truly himself precisely at the point where he ...

I guess all Cindy's attacks on Henry really don't mean anything - if they can sleep together, side by side. I feel better no...

Don't ask me why I still have this thing, made by me when I was very young . But I do, and it's actually still useful to me. A ...

Lynda had wanted to see this - here it is, wrinkled!  It's extremely basic. Four panels, with the hand top stitching only on the ...

For fish I often get cod - it isn't heavy, and you can get it ready very quickly. Salad dressing is perfect. Pour some on, and ba...

I'm in my room with the windows open. It's a beautiful, warm and sunny-but-not-humid day. Perfect, with a breeze. And birds chirping...

Listen, my faithful children: open up your petals, like roses planted near running waters; send up the sweet odor of incense, break forth...

I guess it's safe to say she's comfortable here.

After seeing so many beautiful creations on Anna's blog , I am trying the Alabama Chanin techniques for myself. A very basic and familia...

When I headed for the bathroom this morning, my radio was on AM - when I came back, it was on FM.

Today! John Singleton Copley's The Ascension Hail the day that sees Him rise, Alleluia! To His throne above the skies; Allelui...

After a nice, quiet Memorial day, tonight finds Dolly groovin' to this   - Miles Davis' So What , on his 88th birthday annive...

Today, among the book donations that regularly appear at the library, was a small book of poems by Thomas Hardy. I took it. This evening, ...

Cindy is adjusting to her new home pretty darn well. She has made herself acquainted with every little corner of this place that she's w...

Well, I had a birthday gift to wrap the other day, and I used my wrinkled "kraft" paper  - A bit of ribbon, a sticker - I li...

"We are not asked to acquire new insights, though these are, of course, useful. We are asked rather to expand our hearts by affective p...

I bought myself a plastic, zip-up greenhouse. Forty dollars on Amazon and definitely worth every penny. Five feet high with four shel...

I think it was last year when I cooked a dish with small tomatoes in it. My brother said the wrinkled appearance made him think of the bog ...

I think I've found a patron for this blog - Saint Margaret of Scotland , a queen. "Her biographer, Turgot, gives us a sense of Ma...

Yesterday Susan  lamented not seeing any bluets on her spring nature walks. I am seeing them whenever I look out the kitchen window - the...

from so much rain lately.