Searching for a Balance

 What a warm day! Too warm, really, and I made soup because that's what I'd planned - could hardly eat it. We had 154 kids come: lot...

 Any American my age is going to know what I'm talking about. When we were kids, the storm doors were light-weight, made of aluminum. It...

The title is from a poem by Christina Rossetti.  We had a few warm days this week, and I had the intention to sit at the picnic table at lun...

 What can be said about a day that's perfect? How can it be described?  It's been warm and summery, but takes several hours to get u...

 During his homily, Father read this poem by St. Thomas More: Prayer for Good Humor Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to ...

 October continues in all its beauty, with the past week's temps down into the fifties, which is lovely when it's sunny. But now we...

 I know this is the worst photo ever. At the moment, sunrise is around seven o'clock here, and this morning at seven my brother was outs...

 The swamp maple must have turned brilliant when I was looking the other way. "Every season has its own glory in New England, for every...

I think I must say this every October, but - today was perfect, and I think a day like this, here where I live, only appears in October. Dee...

  If Hope , by Christina Rossetti  If hope grew on a bush, And joy grew on a tree, What a nosegay for the plucking There would be! But oh! i...

 "Love leads to communion, and communion allows everyone to move forward in harmony. Communion is not a happiness passively enjoyed, bu...

 On Sunday, September the 22nd, I started reading Lord of the Rings again. I was feeling the pull, but thought I'd wait till Bilbo's...

It was really cool today; overcast all day, with a kind of damp feeling. The temps were in the sixties, so it's not cold, but I was chil...

 "The passion, our passion, sure we are waiting for it. We know it must come and we intend to live it with a certain grandeur. We are w...

 I wore my blue skirt again yesterday, and it caught on my sandal's buckle again, even after machine-stitching the hem. So, today I cut ...

WHAT IS PINK? What is pink? a rose is pink By the fountain's brink. What is red? a poppy's red In its barley bed. What is blue? the ...

 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 ...