Living in a Still Life - preach Beauty

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Feb 28, 2016 | 365, photography

It was exactly that kind of week. Overly full in so many respects that, once again, I came up empty on a topic to write about. My problem comes when I don’t have enough inputs. I had very little time to read and even less time to process the bit I did read. That...

Steady

Feb 21, 2016 | photography

Danny loves Peppa Pig. I may have mentioned that before. The British-isms in Peppa Pig crack me up sometimes though. When my middle kids asked for Little Debbie Zebra Cakes for their lunches, I kept teasing that I would look for the Zoe Zebra (say with your best...

Hell

Feb 14, 2016 | 365

What would lead a soul to choose eternal separation from the source of all its life and happiness?

Time

Feb 6, 2016 | 365

We all feel oppressed by time. It hems us in and demands our attention when we would rather not. Baudelaire recommends us to “be drunken always” if we are to escape it’s oppression.

Imagination

Jan 30, 2016 | 365

A Mystery, in short, is an invitation to the mind. For it means that there is an inexhaustible well of Truth from which the mind may drink and drink again

Three Weeks In

Jan 23, 2016 | 365

It’s been a mixed up week. Holidays, snow days and sick days meant I spent a lot of time at home this week. It was a nice reminder of life before work. I also read and listened to a bunch of things that got all jumbled up in my mind. I’m still pondering them ― searching for the meaning. Instead, I’m just going to share quotes.

Words

Jan 23, 2016 | 365

The words use to flow quickly and easily. Scraps of paper, margins, notebooks, all covered with words — it was really a kind of graphomania. One day I came to the conclusion that it was all just ridiculous noise and I put them away.

A Single Step

Jan 23, 2016 | 365

It is late in the Christmas season when we finally put up our tree; late to most people but really only the third week of Advent — Gaudete Sunday. On January 1, while the majority of trees are being returned to boxes in the basement or hauled to the curb, ours lingers a quiet twinkly beacon of Christmas.

Happy Birthday

Nov 29, 2015 | Real Life

Today was Danny’s fourth birthday. It was also the beginning of the new liturgical year. It seems a good day to return to this old, forgotten space and attempt to sweep out the cobwebs. It’s been almost six years since I started this blog — there is...