Searching for a Balance

  For life and love, for rest and food, For daily help and nightly care, Sing to the Lord for he is good, And praise his name, for it is fai...

 My brother: Tomorrow's going to be rainy, rainy all day. Me: That's all right; we'll be cozy, cozy all day. It has been gloomy ...

 The recipe for yesterday's ginger cookies is here . But I'll write it up, anyway. 2 1/4 cups buckwheat flour 2 tsp. baking soda 1 t...

 Today, I made some cookies, roasted the butternut squash for the pie, and mixed up the pie dough. With cleaning and laundry in-between, and...

 It's the last Sunday of the liturgical year, the feast of Christ the King. This would be celebrated at the end, because proclaiming som...

 We had plenty of wind yesterday; today, most of the Japanese maple's leaves are down. I was wondering when that would happen. A few han...

 I went to put away the conditioner and there was a stink bug on it - the nerve! And he didn't want to get flicked outside. Well, it is ...

 Or, what IS a name? I was reading in Exodus, chapter twenty-three. Verses 20 + 21: I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard yo...

 I was waiting for the cold nights to kill off the rampant weeds in my garden; I thought they might be easier to pull up. But we are also ha...

Not the temperature they predicted, but Monday was sixty-five:  mild, hardly breezy and wonderful for a day off. Now we have finally gotten ...

 "Because we know that nothing finite is ever our final good, we are seduced by the inflated claims of the politicians, social theorist...

 "There are many wonderful books which are fine to read, but there are very few that are better reread, and still fewer that should be ...

 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...