Searching for a Balance

"To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems of extreme difficulty, wh...

The copper tea kettle is in the front window. The shadows are on the side wall.

 Daisy likes my brother's new blanket.

 I went outside today to survey the kingdom and sprinkle some super phosphate on the bushes. This is an old practice I first learned from Ma...

The liturgical year, that is. Next Sunday begins Advent; today we celebrate Christ the King. In the course of the year, the church goes thro...

 I bought an extra bag of dry cat food; I put it in the basement.  Not long after, I was down there doing laundry or whatever, and there the...

  O give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love endures forever.                                       - from  Psalm 136

 Well, tomorrow's Thanksgiving, and I've made cookies, the sweet potato pie and the broccoli gratin. The pear sauce (pears were on s...

 What I forgot to mention the other day, was that somebody was selling the Christmas issue of (British) Country Living on ebay. The price wa...

 From Magnificat - For those who are blessed with a cheerful heart: - may they bring joy to others always. For those who are blessed with a ...

 I made out very well at the thrift stores on Thursday. An off white flat sheet, brown velvet scarf, wood desk organizer, a little mason jar...

 We are having two days with temps in the sixties - how wonderful. I emptied out a bag of compost into one of the raised bed squares.  It lo...

 Grace Hamman has a monthly newsletter on substack called Medievalish, sent out every 12th. The November one included a beautiful poem/praye...

 We sang this today at Mass. We have never sung it before, but I was very familiar with the melody - not sure how.  The King of Love My She...

 I don't know where the days go. My brother had a birthday, and I've been in the kitchen a lot; I made a gingerbread cake for the ce...

When you're comfortable in the house, and you have to step out briefly and you get chilly - it makes you shrink from going out again. Bu...

  Most merciful Father,  help us to still and quiet ourselves, confident in your unfailing mercy.

 I am always thinking about the balance between what you need to get done, what you are able to get done, and the stuff in between that you ...

 It actually snowed yesterday! Around lunchtime - we were at work, it was overcast, with rain predicted. Then it turned to snow for about an...

 Okay. While getting ready for work, I heard my brother, Come 'ere, come here, hurry! I thought it must be a bear in the backyard or som...

 We had two or three summery days last week. I had the week off; my co-workers have often told me that I pick the best weeks to be on vacati...

 "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darknes...

 A few nights ago it got down into the thirties. Now, we're having summer again, with four days in a row of the seventies and up to eigh...

 I went outside to put more cardboard in a raised bed, and somebody was at the door when I came back. Well, two somebodies.

 I was planning to toss the morning glory pots, and then there was this. Is the leaf trying to get a point across? The weather is supposed ...

 Jesus says to those who seek him, I will never pass you by; Raise the stone and you will find me; Cleave the wood, and there am I. Where th...

 Another weekend with rain; it's a sure thing, every weekend there seems to be a tropical storm in the Atlantic that passes by (not too ...

 I think it's peak foliage days around here. It was sunny, and then overcast, back and forth all day. I finally got outside in late afte...

  It's that ol' sugar maple.

 Well, I couldn't finish the H.G. Wells story, but I couldn't put down Out of the Silent Planet. What a contrast in the way the two ...