Searching for a Balance

 Well, we had a record one hundred and eighty four kids come for candy tonight. But we still bought way too much candy, so the leftovers are...

 My brother came in the other day to say he'd seen a garden snake laying in a sunny patch of dirt, put down after the fellow finally cam...

 I'm still reading the book about domesticating foxes - I'd put it aside for a while in order to concentrate on the Coleridge book. ...

I lift my eyes to you, O Lord, Until you speak your promised word; Mine like the eyes of maids who stand Until the mistress waves her hand. ...

 I finally finished reading Malcolm Guite's Mariner, about Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. If textbooks were ...

 The weather today turned a corner. They said it wouldn't reach sixty, and I dug out some fall-type clothes; I was waiting to feel like ...

 Well, I don't think I ever stayed away from blogging this long. My laptop finally stopped recognizing the wifi, so I had to buy a new o...

 I bought a calabaza squash at the supermarket; it was pretty big. After roasting it whole, it was well cooked inside after only an hour and...

"God calls us to freedom. But instead of being given to us instantaneously and in full measure, this freedom is built up progressively ...

I saw that a sprig of asters was growing inside the forsythia row near the back door.  It contained a multitude of dainty blooms.   

 I don't recall if I already said this, but our big garden was a bust this summer - my brother didn't roto-till it as early as usual...

 Reading my Bible last night, this intrigued me, a commentary on Luke, chapter 4 - which deals with the temptation of Jesus - by Bishop Rob...

 "The ways in which animals play had long been studied. Ornithologists had observed many types of bird play, such as when they hang ups...

 We're having the most lovely weather now, finally. Those insects or tree frogs or whatever they are are singing outside in the night, i...

 "Since the time of Adam's fall, God has this invariable strategy...to draw good out of evil...The cowardice of Pilate, the cunning...

 "The food we eat, our use of the world, the justice we bring, the art we make, these are the spaces in which the potency of God's ...

 These are the books I've been tackling lately. Mariner will take a while because it's thick, and because when I have time to read, ...

 It's Labor Day. So I'll be Laboring over the chicken thighs roasted with Brussels sprouts, the cornbread, and the zucchini fritters...

Someone gave this lovely basket to my brother filled with juicy tomatoes and even a dish towel. Very thoughtful.  Tonight I combined all the...

 The storm moved more to the east and yes, we had lots of torrential rain but not as much as we feared. And, the winds were nothing like pre...

Well, I don't mean to joke about it;  it's heading right for us. Technically, there's a hurricane warning at the coast - we inla...

 Our poor Sweetie passed away on Tuesday. It was a long time that she couldn't groom herself or feed herself and we tried to do it for h...

 Today was the most beautiful of days, not because we've never had such a day, but because it was more welcome after the previous severa...

 The windows are open, the air is cool. I may even get chilly tonight. What a relief, from the awful hot, humid days we’ve been having. 

  I think these tomatoes are beautiful, even though a bit gnarly. They're not ours. All the rain last month was too much for several of ...

My brother came in from doing yardwork and said he discovered grape vines growing across the brook. And grapes, planted by the birds, and he...

 "In the Holy Eucharist, our Lord is not the master who commands; he is not the king who gives orders and whom we cannot resist without...

  Having finished the moving and dramatic story about The Dean's Watch, I've gone back to the safe and quiet Miss Read, where I'...

  "Until now life for him had meant the aridity of earthly duty and the dews of God. Now he was aware of something else, a world that w...

 Note to self: resist adding too many noodles to the pot when making soup. I've done this more than once - it was fine, but really, toda...

 I found a very pretty hanging plant at the supermarket, but since I brought it home it's been looking bedraggled. Now the rain has ease...