Searching for a Balance

 I just found this here: "At fixed hours time should be given to certain definite reading. Haphazard reading, constantly varied and lig...

 I got a crown today.  At the dentist's.

 "It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve, hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the ef...

 Today, I think fall has really arrived. I've been waiting for that September feeling, and was thinking maybe I'd missed it.  It...

 Well, my time off has been lovely; a friend was over for lunch Wednesday. But then yesterday I felt like I might be coming down with someth...

 I took this week off from work, and it couldn't be better, weather-wise. Sunny but dry, most days. Dreamy. I'm doing what I want, e...

 "Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for."                 ...

 It's Labor Day over here in the U.S. It doesn't have a lot of meaning for the residents as far as I can tell, but it's a holida...

 from Magnficat the other day: "It has been well said that religion is not something; it is Someone. It is the Holy Trinity in us; it i...

 Well, it's the Labor Day weekend, and there was just now a lot of noise outside. I had no idea of Labor Day warranting a firework displ...

 The warmth has returned, and it feels summery again; today a "severe thunderstorm" threatened. The threat passed, but the rumbles...

 "I pray to God night and day. It is like a passion in me; all my desire is that people should know him, because once they know him, th...

 Oh, my goodness, what an August we've been having! So unnaturally cool - it actually did not reach seventy on Tuesday!! August, the har...

 Alleluia, not as orphans Are we left in sorrow now Alleluia, he is near us Faith believes, nor questions how Though the cloud from sight re...

I awoke sometime in the dark, and realized an owl was hooting. An owl isn't unusual, but I can't remember when I last heard one, so ...

 "The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs."                    ...

 I've been wondering if my butternut squashes out in the garden will rot from laying on the often-wet earth. I went out today and realiz...

 We had a humdinger of a storm yesterday, while having dessert and trying to do the wordle. It wasn't dark and threatening, but very lou...

  What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow: What are brief? today and tomorrow: What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth: What are deep? the oce...

  O that my people would heed me, that Israel* would walk in my ways! At once I would subdue their foes, turn my hand against their enemies....

 It rained, heavily, a while ago. I think it's going to be drier after this - the air, I mean. This week we've had a reprieve from t...

 I mean, my plants being eaten. It's humid again, but the heat isn't so high.  Whoever started to eat my parsley finished it off. I ...

 "To those who respond to the beauty of [the Church's liturgical prayers], saying them is like singing a favorite love song, the re...

 Last Sunday at mass, probably during what we call the general intercessions, Fr. T. mentioned the attempt on Donald Trump's life the da...

 Every rabbit we see outside get scrutinized for any sign of scarring on the right side, or fur that looks wonky, looking for our little pat...

 Yesterday was the feast of St. Bonaventure .  [God] created man in orderly fashion, so must he also restore him in orderly fashion. First, ...

I just went out the water my little garden - the air is hot. Our Julys are not usually like this. Anyway, I went out there and saw that some...

 We had a visiting missionary priest at Mass yesterday; he was of the Redemptorist order . Polish, but the accent didn't sound like it t...

 "Something about a robin makes me feel he/she would be very good on committees."                                                 ...

 My brother bought a packet of Italian bean seeds to plant - we liked them so much last year. It wasn't long before he noticed the tendr...

  Of course I've heard of Alice Waters. But I haven't been curious about her cookbooks. And then I saw this one on the sale table at...