I had a lovely Easter with good food and small children and lovely relatives for about twenty-seven hours. In that time I washed several particular dishes and cooking pots three or four times because they were the thing I kept needing. I'm still doing the last of the dishes from Monday night. It was the [...]
O Happy Fault, that earned … so glorious a Redeemer…
Christ on the Cross with Pope Pius II. c. 1475. German artist, unnamed. The verses around the picture are a hymn to Our Blessed Mother written by someone known as the Monk of Salzburg, who lived in the late 1300's. This monk wrote both sacred and secular music in German. More or less one hundred [...]
spring is sprung
Almost Easter. Away from my desk. When I consider the work of Thy Hands, what is man that Thou art mindful of him... Lenten roses More daffodils.
A Salzburg saint with salt
Of several saints whose feast is March 27, I looked up Saint Rupert as being one I knew the least about. Well, that’s because I’m not Austrian, I guess. He is not some obscure monk, but rather the abbot/archbishop founder of Salzburg. And while we are on the subject, Salz — burg was a city [...]
Odds and Ends — or beginnings?
I've been reading about probate court and trying to find videos to watch so I have some idea what goes on. My new novel has a lot of will problems and it feels very retro. Dorothy Sayers discussed inheritance problems in Unnatural Death. Agatha Christie discussed them in Sad Cypress. Both authors wrote short stories [...]