Searching for a Balance

listening to Doris Day It's Magic

has the same little habits, doesn't she?

Well, Cindy is back for another visit - two weeks this time. And that has to be the last time I call her Cindy, because she's been Too...

I made two Pinterest recipes for today's dinner. Chicken with Lemon , which was delicious, although I used "thin cut" but thic...

O God, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stan...

A heavy box arrived in the mail; I wondered what the heck I had ordered and then forgot about. Put on the glasses, only to see Beth's na...

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.                                  ...

I have to make an effort to remember that you can stuff vegetables with anything; it isn't something my mother was in the habit of, exce...

"To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse - that's qui...

"...they both made her feel a burden when they fussed and worried...How wicked to think of burdens on this still and peaceful morning, ...

I really think that peaches are the closest thing we have here to a heavenly feast.

where she meditates while listening to this .  The wonder of it!

Henry, relaxing to some Count Basie

"I stand in the service of the Kingdom of God; therefore I do not build up my own kingdom, nor hold myself as the engineer of this king...

"There is an inward world into which they enter who come near to Christ, though to men in general they seem the same as before. They ho...

which I cooked up into a compote for my yogurt.

I don't know what's come over me this summer, but when I had to bake a loaf of bread last week on a hot day, I didn't mind doing...

at home, just three of us. And Dolly, of course. Who had her own chair, of course. And who, twice, when I had to go inside for somet...

...a seasonally sanctioned sojourn of slow joys.  When it's too hot to be anything but receptive and reflective.                      ...

Fit for sitting in flower-covered windows. Or going to work in air-conditioning.

I had leftover chicken, and I had two leeks in the fridge too long; although they were fine, surprisingly, except for a little bit of ...

You care for the earth, give it water, you fill it with riches. Your river in heaven brims over to provide its grain. And thus yo...

No, these are not beautiful pebbles scooped up from the shores of Bali Hai.  A co-worker brought them in to share - they're candy...

It struck me yet again the other day how helpful it is to have some things made up ahead of time. Like pie crust dough. There was a lit...

picked after a couple of stems came down in a hard rain.

and why did it take me so long to buy one? well, two.

Ellie was a Canadian lady who followed my blog. I only knew it from the statistics which show me where people are coming from. She didn...

Today was the feast of St. Benedict, known as the father of Western monasticism. He was the twin of St. Scholastica , who once, on a rar...

Yesterday afternoon I did a load of whites, and when I went to the washer I found them all looking like they'd been smeared with dirt. I...