Tolle et Lege

Oh, how clever to title my book post this way on the feast day of St. Augustine. I’m still around, counting the days until September 8. What happens on September 8, you wonder? PreK 4 finally starts. For half-days until the next week when they finally go full day. At which point I will have [...]

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“Shall I list the paths of repentance?”

There are certainly many of them, many and various, and all of them lead to heaven. St. John Chrysostom, from today’s Office of Readings. (Mount Etna. July 1, 2009)

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Born of water

Tonnara di Scopello, June 25, 2009

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On and on and on

I’ll make this pretty short. I’m going to try to hit this place again later with a book post – I’ve read a lot the past couple of weeks, and it’s time to share the good and the bad. My mind is occupied this week with two projects and honing in on a house on [...]

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…with God, all things are possible

(Gospel reading, 20th Tuesday in Ordinary Time) Erice, Sicily, June 25,2009

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Bittersweet

Chocolate Museum, Barcelona. July 9, 2009

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Batty

Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge. Bat Emergence.  August 15, 2009.

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A Song in the Dark

Last week, the boys and I took a little jaunt up north. North Alabama, that is. A speaking engagement split between Huntsville and Cullman on Wednesday got us in the vicinity, so might as well make a last blast little vacation out of it. Because, you see, (McWane membership + Space Center= free admission) + [...]

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Dormition

At one time, carried in procession on the Feast of the Assumption. A church in Barcelona, not sure which one.

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Out To Dry

Our Lady of Sorrows, Homewood, AL, May 2009

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