Well, I didn’t really want to write about him — and told someone I wasn’t going to — but he’s on my mind a bit, and I don’t have time to find another topic, because my novel writing is still overwhelming my imagination. The Pope commented on Teilhard de Chardin while he was visiting Mongolia, [...]
9/11, Morocco, and comets
I got a phone call at about 2 p.m. on September 11, 2001, from Georgetown Hospital. The hospital said that my son needed a blood transfusion, STAT. STAT I learned means right now and it would have been better earlier. I asked the hospital how I was supposed to get there, seeing that I lived [...]
Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady
This altar piece is probably from Saint Adrian Church in Adrian, Minnesota. Check out the matching picture below the altar as well as the icon. The saint on the right might be Saint Rose of Lima? and the one on the left might be Saint Catherine of Siena. But I'm open to correction. This was [...]
Writing, writing, writing like Napoleon **
I’ve been wandering around lately, looking blank and struggling to have simple conversations with people. I don’t have Alzheimers, at least not yet, but I am deeply immersed in writing. In the past few weeks work on my shepherdess novel, Jessamyn, has taken off. I have a word counter, and it says that, on the [...]
Eye candy from Iowa churches
The ceiling in Stacyville, Visitation Church after serious restoration. Don't know why that's what I concentrated on?!? Trappist monastery at Peosta, just outside of Dubuque Pretty sure this is Meyer, Iowa. Cheating. This one is the Church of Saint Adrian in Minnesota. Also this one. Check out the artwork BELOW the altar. Cathedral of San [...]
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