Searching for a Balance

I just went out across the brook to watch the fireflies. Sunset was half an hour ago, and it's not very dark yet, but getting to be. I s...

 "Home! It showed you its face when you sat quiet within it at that moment when daylight was passing to night, but it could only reveal...

 "Be careful to never let your heart be disturbed or get involved in things that upset it, but always work to keep it calm. In this way...

 Well, the humidity is way up, and it feels like summer, all of a sudden. Because yesterday it was down in the sixties.  I have a new thermo...

 There is almost no time when a rabbit will not be seen in our yard. There's a lot of clover in the grass.  We're glad they like it.

 Juicy strawberries from the farmers' market, courtesy of a very nice friend.

and it's loud. but her curiosity is too great to keep her away.

Yesterday. In line at the supermarket, and, going through. the cap to the liquid laundry detergent popped off and detergent ran out. It went...

 "Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord."                               -       ...

 We've got two bunnies in the yard. One little, one big. What is the fascination with these creatures? I look for them every day. They a...

 I saw a firefly last night -  only one. So far. Just for the record.

 After Mass this morning, it being the feast of Corpus Christi, the congregation processed outside to four altars in different places on the...

 The elementary school kids made a thousand paper cranes, and they're hanging at the library for a while.

 I was just reading a blogpost from the monks about a new member taking some vows. Here is what the abbot said. And then I went to Gretchen...

 Years ago, I bought a quilt for my brother's room, with a nice plaid patchwork design in navy and dark red with bits of green and whiti...

 "The hyperbolic flights of the Psalmist may often be followed with approbation, even with rapture; and I have no hesitation in giving ...

  "If we want to prevent Pentecost from being reduced to a mere rite or even an evocative commemoration, but want it to be an actual ev...

 I was thinking that the day has gone by and I hadn't accomplished so much. But sometimes you get an inspiration to do a thing here, and...

 Holy Spirit, Truth divine, Dawn upon this soul of mine; Word of God and inward light, Wake my spirit, clear my sight. Holy Spirit, Power di...

 There is a fine art museum in Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner. I went with a friend . We'd tried going a few years back; got there...

  The cats like to sit in chairs at the doors, watching everything. But Daisy was on the front window sill, and a baby robin perched on that...

 We sang "Three Days" at Mass this morning; the Easter season is almost over - next Sunday is Pentecost.  Come, Holy Ghost, Creat...

 Our author, after studying the medieval methods of Hildegard von Bingen, wanted to go on the popular pilgrimage of the day, the one that be...

 The author, a physician, bought a Christmas gift for a patient - "...I couldn't help but notice the pleasure I was getting out of ...

  Community  comes from the Latin communio, for which the Oxford English Dictionary gives two derivations. Communio as a verb comes from mu...

 Last year at the library, another plant appeared near the sink in our workroom. There were two, actually, in an ugly gray wood box. And I w...

 To continue last night's post, I came home from work today to find the same yarn I used for the mitts, all over the house. Starting in ...

 I am finally done with these hand warmers; well, I have to weave in the yarn ends on one of them. But, that's it! A very late Christmas...

 I awoke this morning to such pleasant sounds: a car going by, a crow cawing, and conversation in the forsythia hedge. I don't know if t...

 Yesterday was Tabby Cat Day and today was Daisy's birthday, according to the vet's calculations. She's a year old, but I'm ...

 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...