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I am a thought traversing from one end Of this trail to the other And back again, An electrical impulse running along this axon: A memory of wind That peerless, swept across A Kansas field To catch milkweed tufts, Shaken out of their pod By a child’s hand. Seeds scattered for another day, White dove […]
Sometimes I feel a sort of spiritual whiplash. I’ll be motoring along and then suddenly, I’ll think about what I was doing this time last year and how completely my life has changed. Even if these are good changes, it is still a lot of change in a short time! That happened a few times […]
Sunday was the first day Stuart was able to go hunting this season so I said I would make him a hunter’s pie and pumpkin pie for dessert. I like to use a rough-puff pastry-like pie crust recipe that is very finicky but ultimately fun to work with and makes hundreds of little flaky layers. […]
Early Monday morning, my sister Beth and her family piled into their car and began the long drive back to Kansas. Stuart went to work, Midi went to school and I drove to Lake Michigan. I wrote in my journal: I am at the Lake again, in the state park at Devil’s Slide beach. It […]
Chrism Mass I took most of the week leading up to Easter off so I could attend Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and go down to Lafayette for the Chrism Mass. Also, my sister was driving all the way from Kansas to be there for Easter Vigil. On the way down to Lafayette, I wrote in […]
The tipsy-in-love feeling lasted for a few days. By the evening of March 29th, the in-love feeling was still there, but I didn’t feel tipsy anymore. This was great because I had planned to attend Eucharistic adoration for the first time that evening and driving in that state would have been difficult. Beaver Lake Adoration […]
I was about two-thirds of the way through St. Therese de Lisieux’s “Story of a Soul” when I picked up St. Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle, flipped it open to a random page, and started to read. Forward then, my daughters! hasten over your work and build the little cocoon. Let us renounce self-love […]
In the week following the first scrutiny, I kept thinking about sin and praying for God to help me. I continued praying the Novena to the Holy Spirit as well. Sometimes, I pictured myself sitting at the foot of the cross, holding Jesus’s feet when I prayed this but I still couldn’t look up at […]
I pass by branches Laden with figs, Purple sapphires, That drip honey over Green passionfruit. I drive to work in the rain And pass by a car seat On the sidewalk Along Broadway Avenue In Gary, Resting on its side, Empty: Bright and new and wet. I make a basket of My skirt and work […]
After that, going to Mass and RCIA became easier. I even went to a bilingual service for The Assumption of St. Mary. Father Mike looked a bit concerned when he saw me there, but I didn’t know what was going on in English Mass, so what difference did it make if it was in Spanish? […]
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