Moon, come down andcome alone. I have to tell you allabout Akechi’s wife. — Bashō My husband and I will celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary this coming June. I think of all that passion at the beginning, rocking back and forth between joy and fear that it might suddenly prove […]
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"Hail, heavenly ladder by which God came down; hail, bridge leading from earth to heaven." Agathistos Hymn, Greek –6th century. It is a challenge to be born on a day so charged with potential and even more so to me, who was the first baby of that year in my city when I was born.
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Wishing everyone a happy, productive, and peaceful 2018. My resolutions will probably last as long as the evening. But I am confident my prayers for a better world and a year full of friends, family, art, and books will endure.
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"This is the irrational seasonWhen love blooms bright and wild.Had Mary been filled with reasonThere’d have been no room for the child." —Madeline L'Engle Art: Mariotto Albertinelli, 1503: "Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth"
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It is easy to forget that Easter so focused on the Son, is also about the Mother and in 20th century mystic and author Adrienne Von Speyr‘s brilliant work Handmaid of the Lord, Von Speyr examines the significance and importance of Mary’s life: “Her first Yes to the angel, her first joy at conception, her
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My childhood Christmas experience was populated with these lovely vintage Swedish Christmas postcards. They are actually quite small — too small to put into a US post, which is probably why my mother never sent them out. But she saved them from her childhood and so they became a part of mine. Every Christmas they
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Serving Girl's Holiday "I've waited longing for today Spindle, bobbin and spool away In joy and bliss I'm off to play Upon this high holiday… "And spindle, bobbin and spool away A joy that is high a holiday… "And when we stop along the track Unto the inn, this Sunday, Jack We'll whet my whistle
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