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Well, here we are, Reader. We’ve made it through Holy Week, 2024. Happy Easter! Lord Jesus Christ is risen today! Alleluia! How was your Holy Week? Was it difficult for you too? In continuing with the last post, I’ve recorded the color of each day: Color My Days: Holy Week 2024 Continued Holy Thursday: The […]
When I art journaled, I cut out weeks in calendars and painted whatever color the day felt like on each day. For example: If I did that now, these are the colors I’d paint the last few days: Color My Days: Holy Week 2024 Chrism Mass On Tuesday, March 26, I attended the Chrism Mass […]
I come from a family of museum-goers and art lovers. My mother created art in acrylics and stained glass. She also shared her love of art with my sister and I. We watched Sister Wendy’s journey through art on PBS and went to the Cleveland Institute of Art to take classes as part of our […]
Yesterday afternoon (3/23/24) I wrote a first draft of a poem based on the prayer I pray before and after receiving Communion. Translating a prayer to a poem is difficult because a prayer is much more than words. I will have to revise this before it captures the prayer. Prayer Before Receiving Communion Dear God, […]
This cover of Blue Flow by Ichiko Aoba has been stuck in my head for a few days. It is such a sweet, sad song with hopeful notes. The lyrics are in Japanese but the chorus, roughly translated, is: In this blue planet’s seasFeathers drift on the wavesThe fading sadness,A prayer for tomorrow I wrote […]
There is no time for a long post today or likely any day this week- much going on at work and there is more work to do this evening as soon as I’m done writing this entry. It’s been a string of days and I’m just tired. Over the weekend Midi had two friends over […]
Yesterday my husband Stuart came with me to the Fish Fry at Sorrowful Mother. My friend Belinda and her husband Henry came as well and we sat with another couple we are friends with from the 4pm St. Cecilia Mass. There were many people there and it was so loud. But Stuart was there and […]
Today is Pi Day. Because it falls so close to my birthday, I used to be obsessed with Pi Day and pi in general. When I was 17 or so I decided to memorize pi to the 314th place (NERD!). I broke up the task into chunks and memorized pi to the 31st decimal place […]
On Friday we had the second meditative Stations of the Cross and carry-in-supper in the pastorate. Can we just stop for a minute and talk about what is a “carry-in-supper?” Brief Digression into Dialectology I had never heard the term “carry-in-supper” before last year. Some Google sleuthing suggests it is a regional term found mostly […]
Recently I came across this video by Read Choi on Facebook and I feel personally attacked: Not for 1,000 Dollars Once years ago I was up for the Service Staff Employee of the Year award for my work as a lab manager. It didn’t occur to me that there would be public speaking involved if […]
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