I went to a funeral Mass yesterday, I went to the cemetery in my black dress, where we waited thirty or forty minutes for the family to arrive. Horrible traffic from the church to the burial grounds. Scorching sun. Sweat running down my back. A husband and wife with adorable girls showed up dragging a [...]
Anyway, when I have too many things to think about my brain tends to shut down. I'm going to a funeral tomorrow in the Extraordinary Form, so I've been hunting for a copy of the Mass in Latin and English. I discovered that my mother's old missal (1947) is missing pages in the middle of [...]
I wrote on Tuesday about this beautiful old church in Maryland. It had an upgrade to the windows in 2023. I don't know how much of the rest has changed -- I met someone who suggested that the tabernacle might be pretty old -- but I'm sure that the light from newly repurposed stained glass [...]
A friend sent me a YouTube video for an art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, devoted to the artist Raphael. It is one of the largest exhibitions of his work ever put on. It is exquisite. Watch the video. https://youtu.be/y5vnCnB4JcE?si=M3snocb7Aeo2wJY5 Lots of paintings are on view but also, lots of drawings and [...]
I’m having a bit of a struggle with my writing. I invented a setting where I think about choices that people make, and how they work out what they are willing to do to make their choices real. Written like that it sounds like any long novel, but in fact I’m writing short stories about [...]
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