No power this morning for a bit. No power yesterday afternoon. We are having a lot of rain, and random wind, and tornadoes in the area. In between times everything is green and light, but not sunny. I found a gem on Project Gutenberg, an illustrated version of Pride and Prejudice. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-images.html It was published [...]
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Obituary for a friend from Mass
... Call me and bid me come to you ... I wrote about that prayer a few weeks ago.** It became important again Sunday. I’m going to a funeral this morning. A lady I’ll call ‘Marion’ died last week. She was ninety-nine years old. Her daughter stopped me in the communion line Sunday morning to [...]
August! Time flies. People don’t — usually
I didn’t know that surfing was an Olympic sport until I saw a story with a fantastic picture. Surfing was included in the Olympics for the first time in Japan in 2020, and the competition this year is taking place in French Polynesia. It is a judged sport, as opposed to racing or throwing things [...]
Not quite politics…
These days anyone who volunteers at a Catholic Church has to go through a vetting process and be finger-printed. Then there are a lot of rules about never being alone with children, or driving them anywhere alone, and keeping classroom doors open. The priest who ran one of the sessions I attended said, that we [...]
thinking about the church
... so you get eye candy ... Top row, left and right, pulpit in a church in New Trier, Minnesota. Middle picture, possibly from the chapel at the Dominicans of Mary Mother of the Eucharist, mother house in Ann Arbor Middle row. Our Lady of Hope, statue of Saint Joseph, a church I cannot recall [...]
