Just came back from seeing Desa

And that is a worthy topic to blog about. Desa is my first cousin, sandwiched between my older sister, Maria, who was born in November, and me, born the following December – oh my goodness, our stories go back fifty years. Yet I feel ageless when I consider the march of decades.
As long [...]

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A pause in the week….

This is the apple pie the lovely daughters made for Bettina. It was very good, and had several kinds of apples, all from the surrounding orchards. The girls bought the apples at the “Bioneers by the Bay” conference that was held at UMass Dartmouth.
The two kinds of dinners are cooking. Two kinds of chili, [...]

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A Great Visit, A Busy Day

So we begin another week. I am listening to Michael Hoppe’s Poet, Romances for Cello. It is beyond beautiful. I sit here and a kind of mental movie takes off. I am seeing Baguio in the sunlight and smelling pine needles. This morning we went with a dear friend to have a look at houses [...]

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The North Wind has Arrived….

The North Wind, with it’s steely beauty and merciless cold has arrived. It arrived on Saturday morning in Boston, where we went to attend a funeral. At Copley Place with its grand tunnels and plazas, the wind whipped around our fall clothes making pitiful our attempts at layers and warmth. It was a fine day [...]

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Introibo Ad Altare Dei

Great news from Rome. The Pope is going to bring the Latin Mass back into the mainstream. Click here to see the article in the London Times. For those who were so lucky to live in a Catholic culture before the changes of Vatican 2, like me, you might have stained glass, incense and [...]

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