If I say I’m going to try to post daily, for Lent, will I jinx myself? I really like Melissa Wiley’s Tell Me Three Things. Maybe I’ll try that. Just a little pause at the end of the day to record three things, however small. A foot...
“. . . Every noon, a carillon sprinkled its yellow petals above a morose banyan. The Church of Immaculate Conception was numbering the Angelus. With lace frills on, balconies stood upright, as did the false pillars of the Georgian library;...
Monday March 21 A very late and slow start this snowy Monday morning. Dom’s working from home on Mondays now and that doesn’t help either. But we finally got started. Bella did a page of math and some copywork. She’s working on perfect squares and...
Way back in 2011 I wrote up a list of all our Christmas books along with little reviews of each. When a friend was looking for some recommendations this weekend, I dug out the old post and realized how many more books I could add to the list that...
PALM SUNDAY Lately when we have a cozy chat about a Bible reading or some question of catechesis, Sophie often sighs and says, “I just love talking about love. When we talk about love I wish we could talk about it forever.” This morning...
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Daily Living/Learning Notes
I really liked the daily records I kept last week, but don’t know that I want to make them a daily blog post. That takes more time each day than I want to devote to it. So this week I’m going to try to just make one weekly post with each...
This discussion of spiritual poverty at Bearing blog was a part of the inspiration for this post. Bearing starts with Pope Francis’s Address to diplomats: But there is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which...
Often it happens that when I’m pondering a problem or working out an idea several different pieces of writing will arrive on my doorstep from diverse sources that all seem to speak to different aspects of the topic. Then I feel a need to try to...
Thanks be to thee O God, my Father, for your many tender mercies to me your stubborn servant. Thanks to thee for coughing husbands and wakefull daughters and sleepless babies who roust my stubborn, selfish, sleep-loving self out of the comfort of my...
(I think I’m going to take a page from Katherine’s book and post this story this slowly as I have snatches of time here and there for writing.) My heart is ready, O God my heart is ready. I will sing, I will sing your praise. I knew the...
