On This Day of Utmost Radiance

I will think all day long about my sister, Lizzie, who died 6 years ago today. I do not feel anguish anymore, nor do I feel depressed. I still miss her very much. It’s another example of unbelievably adjusting to the impossible. Life goes on, happiness returns, yet at the center of it there is [...]

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Tuesday Night in Ordinary Time

This is what we see from the very center of our front porch.
Yesterday was a particular busy day, as usual. The big kids went off to college earlier than usual. I rode shotgun with Bud as we returned plumbing parts. Small detour – our bathtub spigot had been leaking enough to cause a rise in [...]

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La Vida Vegan

Just a small report from the land of vegan eating. It is going really well. We had a splendid meal last night. Roast chicken for the carnivores. A spread for all of us. We had local potatoes, green beans, fresh corn, tasty garbanzos, my super-wonderful Crescent Dragonwaon gravy and brown rice. This is the best [...]

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Thinking of Jerusalem

I watched a very, very good movie that was assigned to Mercy for one of her classes. It was, “The Kingdom of Heaven”. It is the tale of a crusader’s son, who becomes a knight and goes off to do knightly deeds in Jerusalem.
The scope is vast and the battle scenes are epic. The DVD [...]

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It Ain’t Braggin’ If It’s True

Bud’s in Texas today. Today he called me laughing because he had gone to the top of the dome of the State Capitol building, which is 14 feet higher the the US Capitol dome in Washington DC. At the very top of the dome are the letters, TEXAS. He exclaimed, “Wow! That is amazing!” To [...]

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