I love this view of the mountain obscured. Where is the top?! That's how I feel about my writing at this moment. I'm at 77, 991 words and I just blundered into the fog. I'm close but not at the top yet. Wherever the top is... I've got to keep going!
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
Hail, O Lady, unique gateway through whom the Lord alone has passed! Hail, O you who, through your maternity, have shattered the locks of Hades! Hail, divine access towards salvation for the saved, O you so perfectly worthy of our praise! From the Akathist hymn to Our Lady written by Saint Romanus in Constantinople around [...]
Feast of Saint Richard the Pilgrim
Writing, writing, writing… I’m actually editing parts of my latest story. Unfortunately now and then I discover that editing isn’t enough, I need to write a scene that’s really still in my head not out in the world. And sometimes I discover that I need to rip words out and throw them away. Sigh. [...]
A puzzle and a metaphor
A friend sent me this photo of a painting on the wall of a church he had visited. The picture came in as a fuzzy image at first which sometimes happens when iPhones send pictures to my Not an iPhone. Because I knew the church's name was Saint Helen I carelessly though that it was [...]
Beauty, ever ancient and ever new
Tuesday, January 28, was the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas. I somehow got him mixed up with Saint Thomas à Becket whose feast is in December, and in a hazy way did not check up on what I was thinking so you get this picture late. I should know better. Anyway, here's a picture. Pope [...]
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