By Christen Marian Good morning dear readers. Despite the chaos that arises from post-daylight savings time in a family of four household, our cottage is getting back into its normal routine. I sit in the early morning with an ice-cold glass of water, scandalously not coffee, under a warm blanket with only my thoughts to keep me busy. My delightfully…
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Tolkien Interviewed
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. Tolkien (b. 1892- d. 1973), from The Hobbit, Chapter XVIII, spoken by Thorin Oakenshield as he lay dying I am ending the week with a little J.R.R. Tolkien, and a link* to a delightful 1968 BBC documentary titled, In…
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Continuing Christmas
Since we are in the Octave of Christmas, eight days of Christmas day, let us keep the festivities going (contrary to the World); and in that spirit, I wish you a Merry Christmas! ~SCF ~Image (top of post): winter fun in Williamsburg, VA, picture by ATF
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The Children Shall Play
Cloaked in turquoise, Fragrant Rose, carrying God…..to save us. The days are drawing us toward the 25th, and reports are that children everywhere are skipping about with anticipation. During these days, do watch the children: they know how to prepare for a celebration, and how to celebrate. They still walk the halls of innocence, and have not lost their love…
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St. Francis: The Man, The Saint
“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate and illuminate God becomes one for whom God illustrates and illuminates all things.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi I was writing this morning about St. Francis, who the Church honors today, when I received a phone call from…
