busy hands and books

enjoyed reading.
on earth
sea clocks the story of longitude
there’s no place like space
fairyland in art and poetry
once upon a starry night
michelangelo
listening to.
the queen’s pirate and galileo and the stargazers
the song of the unicorn
discovering great artists
 the limbourg brothers
making.
their own “book of days” with seasons. feasts and holy days.

i could sit and watch this kid all day. he is [...]

the cats’ meow

that’s what all you gals really are.
i didn’t really want you to ignore the important things i had to say.
and i apologize that the start of school brings this sort of stuff out. those dr. jekyll/mrs. hyde posts.
but God is so good that He turned something bad for me into something really beautiful. your comments had me bawling my eyes [...]

hello september

we greeted you with rag curls. not all of us of course. the boys refused to participate and i, well, i couldn’t do them to myself, so let’s just say, one of us greeted you with rag curls.
we are almost finished with hamlet. we watched the movie. the one with mel gibson. and it was [...]

if and when

when a mother loses a child, regardless of age or “stage”. whether it is an accident or some terrible tragedy, it does something to my very core. my heart aches for that mother in a way that makes me want to retreat deep into that inner core, hold my own children very close and never [...]

nothing profound

i don’t know that i have anything very profound to report this evening. today there was a basketball game. our team won. 48 to 26 was the score.
it has been so humid here. and the outrageous cost of our june electric bill has caused me to re-evaluate what number we can comfortably keep the thermostat [...]

surrounded

first of all, i wanted to say that your comments today warmed my heart. i was at my parents most of the day, surrounded by the simple beauty that is literally in every corner of the house i grew up in.  and i came home, read my messages and will go to bed very uplifted, surrounded  by your [...]

small things

with great love.

i think one of the biggest problems with blogging is covetousness. at least for me it is. i look at other blogs and love other people’s flowers. sewing. travels……etc. etc. but as Christians, i know that we have a higher calling. a calling which demands that we find the lovliness in our own small corner of [...]