"Light is power.  A great power by which we exist, but which exists beyond our needs, in itself.  Sunlight and starlight are time, and time is light.  In the sunlight, in the days and years, life is.   . . . .    All power is one in source and end, I think.  Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's ( Read more... )

Last week I made six lavabo towels and three purificators for church. They are part of the fair linen used during services. The lavabo towel is used when the priest washes his hands before communion. The purificator is used to wipe the rim of the chalice between sips during communion. I knew we were low on both of those things. It's not like they' ( Read more... )

The fall class schedule came in the mail yesterday. I was impressed at the selection of Fitness and Exercise classes. Everyone knows that cross training is the most effective. Therefore it seems to me that the following schedule would make one quite fit. Or possibly dead ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, while it was still cool (53 degrees), I sprayed the wasp nest. The rest of day was spent doing financial stuff for the church, shopping and attending a meeting of my writers' group ( Read more... )

This morning was cooler. I gathered together a shovel, lopper, tree saw, pruners and gloves, put them in the utility trailer and hitched it to the lawn tractor. Then I putted to the north end of my property where the lower bridge used to cross Plum Creek. It was rotting out so Neil and Matthew removed it. After the creek goes under the now non- ( Read more... )

Day after day of the sun blazing down out of a cloudless sky.  Too much.  Too loud.

You know those people who have Seasonal Affective Disorder and become depressed when there isn't enough sunshine?  I think I'm just the opposite.  I love quiet grey days with rain.  Day after day of sunshine and uncomfortably warm afternoons feels like the outdoors ( Read more... )

I'm reading the bible straight through at the rate of 3 1/2 pages a day which will take me a year in the bible I'm using.  Nobody recommends reading the bible that way.  I've tried the lectionary but I don't like the way it leaves out things.  A listing like Micah 5:1-7, 9-15 (not an actual listing from the lectionary) just causes me to spend a lot ( Read more... )

I haven't been able to post for a while.  I think with all the trouble Livejournal has been having, they forgot to remember me.  I couldn't remember my password and, even though I followed their directions and they said they were e-mailing it to me, I never received it.  This morning I rummaged in my desk drawer and discovered I'd written it down ( Read more... )

I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to read the English of 400 years ago.  It turns out to be perfectly readable although my inner voice aquires a lisp.  An example of what I mean is the the title of one of the charts at the beginning.  "The Table and Kalender, exprefsing the order of Pfalmes and Leffons to be faid at Morning and Euening ( Read more... )

We had a lovely gentle rain and temperatures in the upper sixties today.  I could practically see my garden getting taller.