Searching for a Balance

I left even thinking about dinner until late afternoon today;  I guess I was hoping that totalled up, the leftovers would amount to somethin...

Peach shaped glass bowls good for filling up with chocolate pudding.

" We live in difficult times. We've only to watch the news on any given evening. If there's an all-knowing, all-powerful, and a...

"This night is not the first night that Jesus went with the Apostles to pray. He invited them to come away with him on another occasion...

The weathermen didn't really say how much we were getting - at least not when I was listening. But it ended up three or four inch...

  Holy Week commemorates the last few days of Jesus’ earthly life. And it is not an easy week. Holy Week is about real life, and so it can ...

It's Holy Week, and I always want to have matzoh around; it seems fitting. In reality, even though I love it, too much messes up th...

O Lord,  we  are so easily deceived still  into expecting from you a kingdom  governed according to the laws of this world. Keep ou...

"There are momentous issues facing the nation. Some of them could inflict irreparable damage. But the revolution of 2016 is a manifesta...

The daffodils awoke from their winter rest today; I guess they didn't hear the news that a bit of snow is on the way.

This is from the meditation for Wednesday in the fifth week of Lent, by Fr. Ron Rolheiser: "In the Gethsemane accounts we're told...

at Sweetie in her room at the bed-and-breakfast .

My  SCOBY developed way better than I expected; it looked good! Relatively speaking.  Now I'm trying to make kombucha with it.

"Jesus' passion should be understood as passio , passivity, a certain submissive helplessness he had to undergo in counter-distinct...

I planted crocuses for the first time in the fall. And they came up! Why have I never bothered with them before? They're wonderful ...

"At a certain point in one's growth, there is no progress without it. The critics...are right in saying that God is not tied to one...

I'm getting very keen on fermenting and have a book called The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fermenting . Monday I mixed up some kimchi...

Thus says the Lord: In a time of favor I answer you,  on the day of salvation I help you; and I have kept you and given you as a covena...

or trying to - It's been a week.  I'll leave it for one more.

This is a meditation for Thursday in the third week of Lent, by Fr. Ron Rolheiser: "No one can truly bless another without dying. Tha...

We sang this today at Mass: As the deer longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for You, O God. My soul does thirst for the livin...

I think I've mentioned before that we have a cat shelter on the side of the house. My brother built it years ago for stray cats. There i...

The bag of beans was so big, I just stuffed a few into a jar with some salted water.

We sang this today at Mass - The Lord is my light, my help, my salvation. Why should I fear? With God, I fear no one. God prote...

 on the same chair! Symphony No. 3 (the Eroica). The Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim conducting.

Even though it's only mid February and temperatures have only been in the thirties it suddenly seems like spring is around the co...

"The desert is the place where we feel our smallness; where, stripped of all that normally buoys us up, we feel how lonely, helpless, f...

In summer I put kitchen scraps in the composter, but in winter I was lamenting that they are wasted, until I realized I could make vegetable...