Searching for a Balance

 When I left work this afternoon, I heard a wren trilling. I wonder how the little birds will fare tomorrow, in the big snowstorm that's...

 I like to make my yogurt in the evenings, and I intended to last night but at the end of the day I didn't want to do one more thing, so...

 I like to observe holidays; they exist for a reason. It may amount to a cloth on the table, some dessert, a day of less housework. Sunday i...

 When I came up the basement stairs into the kitchen I could see out the window to the bird feeder; there were three dark gray juncos and a ...

 It's the feast of St. Anthony, the hermit . Why didn't I think to make hermits ? But it's getting late, the butter is in the fr...

 When Orphan Annie finally had her check-up, she was found to weigh eleven and a half pounds. Ahem. This would be our fault, of course. Dr. ...

 I returned Yeats to the library; now I have Wordsworth.  This evening I hankered for a hot cocoa, so I had one, but I wonder if the caffein...

 "There is something at once magnificent and terrible about moonlight on the snow during these cold, white January nights.   If one is ...

 I think I happened upon an answer to my question from yesterday: "Why do people always get so still when they watch the snow, murmured...

 We knew it would snow overnight, only two to five inches, and over a fifteen-hour period.  early morning But it came faster, and heavier, a...

  What I'm reading at present. Jane Eyre is more fantastic than I remembered. Highly Irregular was a Christmas present - it's about ...

 Well, it's a new year, and there's a new reading challenge I'm embarking on. The very first thing is to read eleven poems by a ...

 "Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyme...

 I've been wanting to put the little Christmas tree on the table during dinner some time - that was easy enough, since it sits right nex...

A Happy New Year to everyone!   Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.                                        ...

 I have a book called A Literary Christmas which I've been going through here and there. A Washington Irving excerpt caught my fancy and...

 Christmas has been so nice and quiet, which is what's usually needed after all the hubbub that always comes before. But we did have som...

 And there was snow, this morning, Christmas Eve day. And yesterday I scrubbed the kitchen floor. What more could I want? Earth, strike up y...

 "The liturgy of Advent... is not just about commemorating the historical event which occurred some two thousand years ago in a little ...

 I can't believe I attached a favorite bird ornament on the tree with her watching. When I went in to unplug the tree, there were white ...

 We sing this hym n at least once during Advent in recent years in church, and we did this morning.  There isn't enough time in the week...

 There was a fantastic sunrise this week - I had to dial down the light coming into the camera; this is how the sky really looked, with that...

 Today was so mild, but I also had another headache. It may have been due to the warmer weather, but I can never be sure. So, my dreams of s...

It seems about two weeks before Christmas I get the urge to bring out more glitter and shine; this may have something to do with Gaudete Sun...

 "The children who refuse to dance or mourn* represent souls that are anesthetized by self-absorption and doubt. The Son of Man, becaus...

 The phone rang. I picked it up. me: Hello? OP (the other person): Who's this? me: Hello?! OP: Who is this? me: Did you call me ? OP: T...

 When I got into bed last night, snow was falling. I turned out the light and could still see Dolly's white shape in the bright glow of ...

 I was very excited today to finish off the new living room curtains. The curtains I made years ago  were impossible to salvage another day....

  O God of glory,  you have sent your only Son into our midst to bear us in joy into your presence. Waken those whose faith slumbers; stir u...

 The tree is up, and the lights. I need to find a sensible method of doing the lights but now's not the time to think about it. And Tric...

 I just read this: Nothing is more repugnant to capable, reasonable people than grace. -   John Wesley