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Picture Book Pick: Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers 18 Aug 2013 | 07:16 am
Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers by Gloria Whelan illustrated by Yan Nascimbene Another book to add to our Japanese picture book rabbit trail. A delightful find about a little girl whose father is ...
Suffering and Purpose 18 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
A collection of links on a Saturday night. 1. Suffering and Suffering Well, a beautiful homily from Father Philip Powell, OP My point? I had been in constant pain for almost four months, and I griev...
Assumption 16 Aug 2013 | 07:28 am
About the Icon of the Dormition (so worth reading!) Blessed Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary! (or of the Dormition of the Theotokos to my Eastern and Orthodox brethren) As we usua...
And the days are not full enough 16 Aug 2013 | 06:28 am
“And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.” —Ezra Pound I just bought The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry ...
The King of Birds 15 Aug 2013 | 08:12 am
Goldfinch at the feeder We’ve had this feeder up for quite some time (and I go for months sometimes between filling it up because I’m terrible at that kind of thing). It’s on the front window and we ...
The Christian Working Woman 14 Aug 2013 | 08:39 am
When we get up in the morning, the duties and cares of the day will crowd in on us, if they have not already driven away the peace of the night. This is when we need to get things under control and sa...
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine 14 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!” ― Hilaire Belloc Eight years ago today…. We threw a reall...
Anthony the Engineer 13 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
Anthony is turning into quite the builder. I’ve been very impressed with his block structures recently. He says this is bunk beds. “This my bed. This Ben’s.” Now he got the idea of bunk beds from Sop...
Lazy Sunday 13 Aug 2013 | 11:07 pm
It was one of those perfect New England summer days and I didn’t want to miss it so I took my book and the baby and settled down on a blanket under the maple trees. I stayed out until it was time to m...
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross 12 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
St Teresa Benedicta’s portrait at her canonization Mass. “Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth!” “Whoever seeks the truth is see...
