Searching for a Balance

 I finally saw a rabbit today; I've been looking. The little chickadee still flutters over my brother's car when he's home, and ...

 I'm reading Bandersnatch, about the Inklings . They made a point to not skimp on praise where it was due, which struck me as awfully ni...

 "What Rome was capable of, the achievement of her empire shows. The Roman character had great qualities, great potential strength. If ...

  The maple right there, right before you get to the bridge - well, take a good look. It isn't there now. The infamous October snowstorm...

  That Eastertide with joy was bright, The sun shone out with fairer light, When, to their longing eyes restored, The glad Apostles saw thei...

 The chickadee nest is in that hole in the middle of the picture.

 It's been a few days now this little chickadee has been seen flitting distractedly around my brother's car. It's like he's ...

 "Mercy consists in bringing a thing out of non-being into being."                                         - St. Thomas Aquinas

 This book about the Romans is way more interesting than I expected it to be. The present chapter is on Horace. The author says it is imposs...

 How the time goes by - over a week since I've been here! I never mean to stay away so long.  Easter was lovely, of course. It just is. ...

  Entry of Christ into Jerusalem by van Dyck "All desire to rejoice with Him, few are willing to endure anything for Him, or with Him. ...

 The grass is entirely green now, and all it takes is a warm day. It had begun to turn a couple of weeks back with those two days of warmth,...

 I could have worn a sleeveless shift today. It was well over seventy and it's still warm - sixty. After chopping the soup vegetables ea...

  This thing is almost done; it may serve as a cat mat. We will see. Meanwhile, I'm trying to do my state income taxes, and the mending ...

 We had a baptism during Mass today - a wee little one, born not more than two months ago, probably less. He was quiet throughout, except he...

 I washed another of my woolly turtlenecks today - there's another warm-up coming and I can't imagine it's going to get much bel...

 This is what I came home to - which of course reminded me of a crime scene. But she revived after a little, and seems to be her usual self....

 My knitting project is looking like a sunset, the ends are getting used up, and I'm not sure if I'll felt it after all. A few more ...

 I wore sandals to work yesterday - with bare feet! Today it's back to the forties, but that's not bad. And we have the memory of tw...

It's ten o'clock, and fifty four degrees out - if my hair wasn't wet I'd still have my window open. But it's tempting to...

 I felt like knitting, using up leftover yarn, but couldn't settle on a plan. So, I'm just doing it, with the ends of the wool I...

 Dolly is doing so extremely well - she is more active than she's been in years. I guess it's the insulin, and now her UTI is gone -...

 I tend to think of Lent as a desert place. So, it was helpful to see this as today's meditation in Magnificat: "It is in the deser...

It began snowing yesterday, around twelve noon, right when they said it would. But they also said it would stop at seven tonight. It's e...

The ashes this morning didn't consist of a big black cross on my forehead; there's apparently another way of dispensing them - just ...

Dolly is doing much better, no more blood, no more incontinence, no more peeing on the floor. She's using the box and is back to eating ...

 I hope everybody had a lovely Valentine's Day.  There is a very timely piece on Aleteia on why St. Valentine is invoked during a plague...

 Yesterday my brother came home for lunch to find drops of blood here and there around the house; the cats were all in the living room, in t...

  The primroses were three for six dollars at the supermarket; I bought a pink one, a white one and a yellow one. Then I had to put away the...

 

 Another day of snow! We thought it would start early, but it hadn't when we got to church - I wore my boots anyway. And after, when we ...