Searching for a Balance

Debra was leaving town and had too many peaches; they were all ripe and did I want some? Yes! After reminding my brother for the second ti...

I went to make ice cream the other day and poured a cup of milk into the blender, whereupon I saw a moth floating. Fortunately, I had more m...

"When we hold a newspaper upside down, we see the strange forms of the printed characters. When we turn it upright again, we do not see...

One morning a year ago, we were getting ready for work, when I saw a cat on a lower back step, stretched out and resting. It was Mr. Kibble ...

"The servant of God, then, must believe without the slightest doubt that the invisible God is near him, yes, within him. He should stan...

My brother is so organized in his gardening, and it's such a pleasant thing to look at. When we come out of the back door, we see the be...

I made new curtains for my brother's room today - his old ones were torn. I used a sheet from the thrift store. I guess I was p...

"Thus says the Lord to me:  I will quietly look on from where I dwell,  like the glowing heat of sunshine,  like a cloud of ...

"She loved beauty and she was creative, but her creativeness found its joy in the shaping of everyday life to a form of comeliness, so ...

"For what is the welcome of the host if behind it there is not the labour of the women? Through the years the three women had lit the f...

Well, why wouldn't she? It shows her off so well.

Father of all nations and ages, we recall the day when our country claimed its place among the family of nations; for what has been a...

"This sense of futility... it's nothing - merely the reverse side of aspiration - and inevitable, just as failure is inevitable. Di...

"To get nicer and nicer you must love the sun and give good juice when you're bruised."                                     ...

"Both houses gave one the feeling of having been built from inside as well as from outside, as though the men and women who had made th...

"...it was home-making that mattered. Every home was a brick in the great wall of decent living that men erected over and over again as...

"Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodd...

It's strange to see a bare floor in the living room - the cats are probably glad to lay on the coolness of it. Settling on a suitable ar...

I've been taking Dolly out on all my days off, when weather permits. And we plan to continue.

Yesterday morning at five thirty my brother came into my room and said that Henry was laying on the kitchen floor, and he thought he had die...

" Do you think all beauty is just the evidence of things not seen, David? , she had asked. If it's anything it's that , he ha...

Outside the kitchen window used to be a forsythia, which got overtaken by a wild rose  - was that link photo just taken a year ago? ...

I have a few of these padded satin hangers of my mother's. On this one the satin pieces had separated in the center and the batting w...

"...what is given to you you are always afraid will one day cease to be given but what you give you can give forever. Life had taught h...

I think he first appeared four or five years ago, but time goes by so fast and I'm really not sure. But one day, I think early December ...

from Magnificat:  "Every person's life is God's work of art, an expression of his creative love, his goodness, his compassion....

"The hills on our side of the river were green, and on the other side they were blue. They got bluer farther away. Uncle Burley said ...

I finally finished the blanket;  it's very uncomplicated, but I never devoted more than a few minutes here and there to it, so it took...

O God, from whom all good things come,  grant that we, who call on you in our need,  may at your prompting discern what is right, and...

I've been wanting to do a post about this cat for a year, but I knew it would result in a long story. Which it will. But I can say...

I am working on a simple baby blanket for the girl next door, who had a baby. I had chenille left from my robe project, and some white co...