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May 18, 2025

To Free a Starling from the Snare

There was a knock at the door. I was lying on the sofa, putting off...

February 2025

February 22, 2025

Breaking the Ice with Jesus

Jesus and I went for a hike, to see the last of the ice....

August 2024

August 15, 2024

A Sacramental Life

Marian solemnities are the hardest days. I am going to try not to be...

July 2024

July 09, 2024

A Bucket Brigade

It's not a good summer for the zucchini. It's not a good summer for...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

A Yard Full of Gifts

I woke up to the sound of the lawnmower. The sound of a lawnmower used...

April 13, 2024

Deeper than I Know

I drove out to see the wildflowers, in Serendipity. Last year, due to the fiasco...

April 09, 2024

From Evensong to Prime

There are those who say that learning about nature freed them of the belief...

April 03, 2024

The God of Crows and Eagles

On Holy Thursday I went to Mass, and that wasn't bad. My religious...

March 2024

March 13, 2024

I Saw the Water Flowing

It's really spring now. The world is recalled to life. I was raised to believe...

January 2024

January 21, 2024

And All To Whom The Snow Came

I hope I am never so old that I don't love the snow. Last...

September 2023

September 10, 2023

Love is the Madness of Sycamore Trees

How many times have I told you that I wish there was someone other...

March 2023

March 01, 2023

Sign of the Hawks

There are two hawks in LaBelle. All this time I thought there was one...

April 2022

April 14, 2022

The Things I Want to Believe

I went for another hike. At the beginning of Lent, I'd set as a...

March 2022

March 25, 2022

Earth of Heaven

I want to draw your attention to an excellent piece by my friend Scott Eric...

August 2021

August 01, 2021

How Blessed the Kingdom

I went to Divine Liturgy again. Last time I'd wandered in when I drove...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

A Road Trip

We went to the beach. I wish I could tell you just how much...

December 2020

December 03, 2020

In the First Snow

It snowed yesterday. I kept calling it the First Snow and Rose kept reminding me...

October 2020

October 15, 2020

A Most Enchanted Trip

We went for a walk in the woods. I've been reading about how volunteers were...

April 2020

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...

February 2020

February 11, 2020

Where Everything is Alive

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

November 2019

November 04, 2019

The Color of Departed Souls

The leaves have peaked for the year, and the color is going away. Pretty...

October 2019

October 04, 2019

The Logic of Fireflies

Rosie tried to tell me about fireflies. She watched a television program all about...

October 03, 2019

Transitus

“Be praised, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death, from whose embrace no living person...

April 2019

April 02, 2019

Among Pines

There is incense in the mist. Resin fragrance stings, a seraphs' fire cleansing throat and...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

I Am Not Used to the Living

The warmth is coming back. Today we had the windows open for a bit after...

December 2018

December 19, 2018

O Clavis David

The O Antiphon for December 20th: O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel; qui aperis,...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

Not Unto The Ages of Ages, I Hope

Michael touched his voltage tester to the light socket in the kitchen. There was a...

April 2016

April 04, 2016

Those Who Sow in Tears

This is my first year to plant potatoes. “When do they go in the ground?”...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

The Mercy of God is a Diamond in the Dark

I am a city child, but once a year my family used to visit a...