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 [...]
Chocolate again!
It's cold outside. I made some ordinary chocolate chip cookies at Christmas time as a gift for someone. I hadn’t made them for quite a while and they were good. Very good. I had forgotten how good homemade chocolate chip cookies really are. And since I gave these all away I didn’t get much more [...]
Apollo 17 and a book review!
Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift, 2021, Harper Collins, New York was one of my Christmas presents. The subtitle, The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, makes clear what the book is about. The author writes, in a discussion of the Apollo 14 mission, "the moon played tricks on them. [...]
Eye Candy from a seminary
We visited the new Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia over the weekend. This was planned for a long time and there were reasons why it had to be at this moment. Since we are safe I won't second guess what we did, but the snow was unpleasant. Here's a picture from the edge of [...]
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