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March 2022

March 21, 2022

Sing When The Sun Is Gone

When I was a little girl, I heard a Chinese myth, about a day...

September 2021

September 06, 2021

What Would You Do If You Believed I Was Love?

Saturday we went to the beach. It might be the last time this year....

June 2021

June 27, 2021

To Touch the Unclean

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd...

June 10, 2021

A Picture of the Sun

She was in her front yard, with a camera on a tripod, trying to...

June 06, 2021

The Terrible Meaning of Corpus

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi. I always thought that was a terrible word:...

December 2020

December 04, 2020

For God So Loved the Formless Waste

Rosie and I went downtown, to bring a space heater to the Friendship Room, and...

October 2020

October 09, 2020

Every Night And All

It got cold last week. It was going to frost, or get close to it....

August 2020

August 10, 2020

To Bow and to Bend

I have a new garden friend now. I haven't seen him, but I know...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

During a Dangerous Year

Rosie is completely over her virus now. She's out of danger-- nothing left but...

June 2020

June 20, 2020

Frater Memento Mori

There is something about gardening that's almost guaranteed to make you superstitious. I was in...

June 09, 2020

Arma-Dilly-Die-Day

I went out to check on the garden and found a whole army of roly-polys...

May 2020

May 24, 2020

The Parable of the Maple on Ascension Day

I don't know where the maple tree was, originally. There must have been a...

May 01, 2020

Faith Is A Thing That Holds

It's the first day of May. The narcissus have bloomed, fallen over and died, as...

April 2020

April 16, 2020

When You Cannot Find the Body of Christ

There's always a letdown in this Octave of Easter-- or, at least, there is...

April 11, 2020

It Causes Me To Tremble

I woke up early, which isn't like me. Insomnia is another symptom I...

April 09, 2020

On the Darkest Holy Thursday

We've reached the end of Lent, the beginning of Triduum. Sunday will be Easter. The...

April 06, 2020

How Do You Get To Gethsemane?

No one said I couldn't go for a hike. There's a lot that's not allowed...

April 03, 2020

The Deluge and the Garden

It was a steaming warm, cloyingly humid Saturday afternoon. It started out sunny, but then...

April 02, 2020

This Is What Gives Me Hope

Our country is awash in chaos and suffering. There is horror every time I...

February 2020

February 21, 2020

A Suggestion For Your Lent This Year

Have you made your plans for Lent yet? What are you going to do?...

February 11, 2020

Where Everything is Alive

In February, when the whole world appears dead, I think about the place where...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

Over the Wine-Dark Ohio

It was snowing, but I couldn't see it. This has been the most disappointing of...

January 23, 2020

Ohio to the Gulf

I have lived by the Ohio River for over thirteen years. The sources of...

December 2019

December 24, 2019

Emmanuel in the Cold and the Dark

The desert is cold at night. Not cold enough you freeze to death, usually,...

December 17, 2019

What Did You Come Out To See?

The lady who gives us rides to church used to live in France. She came...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

The Lion is Not Real: a Lesson About Faith

When I was a very little girl I used the word "real" to mean ordinary,...

November 24, 2019

The Highest Majesty of God

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: The rulers sneered at...

November 10, 2019

To Him, All Are Alive

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. ...

October 2019

October 26, 2019

Two Went Up to the Temple

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: Jesus addressed this parable to those...

October 12, 2019

Angelus Through Glass

I took Rosie downtown for her martial arts class. They're getting ready for a...