Searching for a Balance

 A local radio station here owns the rights to a dramatic reading of an obscure poem called "Hail, October" by a fellow named Hal ...

The color in our neighborhood seems to be at peak color. It was warmer today and humid, overcast and occasionally rainy. But apparently late...

 If you've been around here a while, you may remember that at Christmas time, I put the small nativity on the lowest shelf of the corner...

 "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by...

 Today my photos are uploading; we're back to normal. These trees across the brook are turning to reds and oranges. Tonight we are expec...

 Well, I have a photo of a book I read, and a sewing project I hope to make, but blogger won't load the photo. Maybe another day. I fini...

 It's been rather gloomy lately, and dark in the afternoon kitchen, so I got out - I think it's the last - one of those battery cand...

 My new camera is a trial; I keep taking (what I think are) good photos of Daisy, and they turn out to be mp4's. All I want is a camera ...

 I'd heard of Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs, and then someone returned a copy to the library today - I took it. "I wa...

 I really like blogging, but I was sick. I had very little inclination to be taking pictures. And now I'm out of the habit.  So, what...

 "When we are tempted to abandon our discipleship     because we fear our virtues are too small to serve you,                          ...

 "Only where the plough of God has tilled our lives can sowing bear fruit. An enduring deepening of the interior life can be brought ab...

 Oh, this morning - the golden light, the stillness. And the insects, whatever they are, always bzzzing in that background way that you almo...

 "For our nation on Labor Day tomorrow: that we might grow in sanctity by offering our daily tasks to the Lord, and that all who are un...

 I planted morning glory seeds late, I don't recall when, but maybe in June. I didn't want to think it was too late to be starting s...

 DOLLY April 22, 2003  -  August 24, 2022 Memory Eternal, little Queen of Our Hearts

 We had rain today. The real thing, and not for just two minutes. 

 In an article by Madeleine Kearns in National Review magazine, she quote Archbishop Fulton Sheen on the different stages of a man and woman...

 I read something about the blue hour. Then, tonight while doing the dishes, it arrived.  I'm not sure these are anything special, or bl...

Dolly isn't feeling so well these days, with a UTI and poor appetite. We're much occupied in trying to help her out - to feel more c...

 We have a lot of these. Today was the feast of the Assumption of Mary. At Mass on this occasion the priest will bless the fruits of your ga...

 We are still in a very hot spell; there is an official heat advisory until tomorrow night - it started Thursday morning! It was originally ...

 So I'm reading Gatsby, and I've never read Fitzgerald before. His prose is interesting in its spare, aloof matter-of-fact style. I ...

 And the apple slices were gone this morning!

 I am still reading the Gladys Taber; it was the February chapter and she was talking about the bird bath water which had thawed. I suddenly...

 "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."*                               ...

 It was time to shred some zucchini - I did sixteen cups! Well, it was the food processor who did it. All in little two cup bags in the free...

 "Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace...

 My intention in blogging is to say something at least on my days off, but here I am after almost two weeks absent. It seems that every now ...

 I finished washing the dishes rather late - it was almost dark. Almost, but you could still see shapes of trees and other things. And firef...

 We sang this hymn at Mass today and it came to me that if an explanation of the goal of the Christian life was wanted, this would do it. Be...