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  • Epiphany

    Epiphany

    Light is the theme of the day. I love the way fire looks in the grey half light of a winter afternoon around the Puget…

  • The Horror of Being Embodied

    I’m not sure how to do this. It feels out of place for me to put material about my physical health journey in the same…

  • What Blossoms in a Children’s Graveyard

    What Blossoms in a Children’s Graveyard

    We visited the cemetery today, as is our custom, since November is the month of the Holy Souls, and this week is the Octave, and…

  • Stellamaris Sits

    Stellamaris Sits

    Today I did something new: I asked my daughter, Stellamaris, to sit for a portrait. It was a modest, quick little thing. A pencil sketch.…

  • Art and Salvation?

    When I was in graduate school at the Pennsylvania Academy, a cheeky philosophy student from Temple University said to me: “Art is great and everything,…

  • The Stations of Acceptance

    The Stations of Acceptance

    It’s easy to look back with sighs of regret, as a mother “in the weeds,” as a person in midlife, having made life’s commitment at…

  • A Walk in the Woods with Magdalen

    A Walk in the Woods with Magdalen

    “God made the world, mama! God made the whole world!”

  • A Little Piece of my Heart

    A Little Piece of my Heart

    I made this little oil painting while I was pregnant with my son. Perhaps I was pondering the sure evidence of the love of God…

  • The Words of My Teachers : An Invisible Treasury

    The Words of My Teachers : An Invisible Treasury

    There was always that hint of self-doubt within my mind as a teacher, especially when faced with a student who is having trouble. ‘Do I…

  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

    Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

    “Without love, everything is painful, everything is tiring, everything is burdensome. The Cross, taken up hesitantly, is crushing; taken smilingly, by free will, and with…

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