Reading agenda
Our cathedral Rector, the Very Rev. Fr. John Lankeit, has a book-of-the-month recommendation posted in the bulletin every week, and for this month, it is: Noise: How Our Media-Saturated Culture…
Orchid
The color just grabbed me and I had to have it. Inexplicable, irrational, lovely color joy. I picked up 5 super-saver skeins just before leaving for the ranch, so I'd…
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
January 4th is the Feast day of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native born American to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Read more about her life here. Prayer…
Getting back to basics
During the course of 2010, we observed a disturbing trend in our home. The busyness that came with many church and extra-curricular activities for the kids began to drag our…
Epiphany Sunday, 2011
I think the late night holidays caught up with me Sunday morning.... it was slow going getting ready, and I found myself running around the house at 7:40 looking in…
New Year’s Day Hike – Part VI
Across the parking lot, this motorcycle brigade began to form up... More people coming down the green around the stadium... Then, these buses began to move out one after the…
New Year’s Day Hike – Part V
Leaving that last bridge behind, as we continued on toward the stadium, we were suddenly faced with a surprising sight - a fence, where none is usually to be seen...…
New Year’s Day Hike – Part IV
Finally I caught up to the rest of the crew, but only because they kindly stopped at the next bridge to wait for me. Mother was glad to find a…
New Year’s Day Hike – Part III
I fell further and further behind as I was aided and abetted in my walking delinquency by Laurent, who kept pointing out interesting foliage. (to be cont...)