Searching for a Balance

Debra gave me a very small braid "rug", for lack of a better word. It's just like a braided rug, but only a few inches in diam...

Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the ami...

I put the harness on Dolly today and out we went. It was beautiful outside. She trotted and I followed; we crossed over the bridge an...

This page from a Sandra Boynton calendar has seen better days but it's taped onto my desk area at work, and that's where it...

Little violas in the grass. Praise to the giver of good! O lover and author of concord, Pour out your balm on our days; Order ou...

Happy Easter!

Lord my God, I call for help by day; I cry at night before you. Let my prayer come into your presence. O turn your ear to my cry. ...

"The reason why we don't take time is a feeling that we have to keep moving. This is a real sickness. We live in the fullness of ti...

My brother came home with a tulip from a client - what a nice thing! I like seeing kitchens with a plant on the counter or windowsill; we ...

The forsythia is in Full Bloom; it's really glowing! All my fears are gone - I guess forsythia is a hardy plant.

"I would like to welcome you all to the discomfort of another Holy Week." This is the beginning of yesterday's blog entry fr...

We had cat food hanging around that nobody was going to eat, so my brother brought it over to Diane's this evening. I was in the middle ...

"Holding a book, discerning the fonts, touching the dry ink, feeling the thickness of the paper as one turns the pages, writing in the ...

Though unseen, O Lord, I love you, Wondrous is your saving might, Thus to wean my soul so sweetly From its sinful chief delight: Mo...

When the oral surgeon had finished with me - I believe it took him less than ten minutes to remove three teeth - they handed me a small t...

I had three wisdom teeth out today, and was taking it easy for the most part. But I did go for the camera when I saw this little fellow out ...

"Renew your people within and without, O Lord, and, since it is your will that they be unhindered by bodily delights, give them, we pra...

There's a fellow up the road who sells tires. His shop is behind another place and there's a bit of woods behind there. Periodically...

Tomorrow is the end of the month. Today was beautiful, in the seventies, I'm sure; March will go out like a lamb. I could have wa...

"A monk was once asked, What do you do there in the monastery? He replied: We fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up again....

The library's Christmas cactus is still in full bloom. (The link is from a three year old photo.) It did begin blooming in December, a...

"We desire to be paid for what we do; and when we are truly wise, we work for God: we choose that profession, of good works, which he p...

or gives a good imitation of it.

"The eyes of peacemakers are watchful, caring eyes and their fellow wayfarers find warmth in them like people at the fireside. They nev...

Today was another beautiful day, in the fifties. I was just about to wash the floor when I had the idea to wash a window. Just one. In March...

I saw two robins in the front yard on Monday.

"Prayer consists...in an interior attention and a conversion of the heart, because what turns us away from God and keeps us from prayin...

I decided a couple of weeks ago that I needed a sewing project. I have lots of scraps, so I am making a log cabin quilt. You can see how ...

Somebody returned an inter-library loan this morning while I was at the main desk. It was a small book, or booklet, of eyewitness accounts f...

Picture taken through the curtain, in a hurry. He's actually sitting in the bowl of seed, which is in this urn. Hey, I don't mind...