Searching for a Balance

 Apparently, it was National Tabby Cat Day. Right before I took this picture, she had her head entirely in the pitcher. Only goodness and ki...

 I'm going to interrupt this program to link a story which I have heard before, but forgot about. And since I don't want to forget i...

 Wednesday, a woman called the library - she was dividing her black-eyed susans and wondered if we wanted any; she was sure it was a silly i...

 Two weeks just passed by, and I thought about posting several times, but I often was tired or felt blank. I have to say that I'm glad i...

The morning kindles all the sky, The heavens resound with anthems high, The shining angels as they speed, Proclaim, "The Lord is risen ...

 The weather's been sunny, beautiful. Easter-ish. On that fair day of Paschal joy The sunshine was without alloy, When to their very eye...

  Can there be any day but this, Though many suns to shine endeavour? We count three hundred, but we miss: There is but one, and that one ev...

   On Holy Saturday the Church waits at the Lord's tomb in prayer and fasting, meditating on his Passion and Death and on his Descent in...

 From lips cracked with thirst, the voice That sounded once over the billows of chaos When the royal banners advanced, replied through the s...

 April fourth, and I think I can keep the bathroom window open when I shower tonight. 

 During this morning's homily, Father said, "Truth without love is dangerous." What an interesting remark. "Let us be ama...

It was warm today; I looked out and the daffodils were happy.   I thought it was too late, but no - it was the blue hour - I ran out.

  I thought the frost was a little much this morning - a little too white - but then I realized it was snow. Not much! I didn't have a p...

 Last month at the library, we wrapped up some of our books in white paper, with a heart sticker and pink labels with room for a book review...

 Can you guess what this picture reminds me of? I think it was when I saw the "ribbons" hanging down the side - Lizzie's, of c...

 It's the feast of St. Joseph - a day later than usual because Sundays take precedence over saint's days. Almighty God, who called S...

 A fresh-air kind of day. 

The snow has vanished - it's fifty one degrees. Tomorrow is the feast of St. Patrick, and the grass is suddenly green!

The weather people said a big snowfall was coming, from Monday, through Wednesday. It would start with rain, then snow mixed in, until the r...

My brother actually has a customer who works for Kerrygold. And at Christmas the man gave him ten or so coupons for the cheese and the butte...

The sure provisions of my God Attend me all my days; O may your house be my abode And all my work be praise. There would I find a settled re...

 I went outside looking for new life. some buds on the crabapple the rhododendron the daffodils! It's a little soon, isn't it? ...

 I finished The Middle Window. It was a very compelling story, well written, as all her work is. But it took a turn and went into the past, ...

 "God is very present in the deserts of our lives. It is in the desert that God revealed himself to Abraham. It is in our dryness and d...

 Our pretty snowfall melted on Thursday, as always is the way in March. But more came today, with some sleet mixed in, It wasn't as bad ...

  Well, the last day of February, and we have our first *real* snowfall. And, contrary to what I expected, a snow day! The library and other...

 Daisy, as I've previously described, observing how water fills the sink.  She is everywhere: when I vacuum, she is nearby; when I damp ...

 "So completely have we depended on material things, on money in particular, so terribly are we influenced by fear, that simply to aban...

 We actually had some snow today. It almost covers the ground, and didn't melt because it's so cold. It will be gone tomorrow, but T...

I had a wicked cold a few days ago, and picked up an Elizabeth Goudge. It's a funny thing about reading novels during Lent - to me, nove...

 they had the same idea at the same time but in different places.