This has to be seen to be believed. I didn’t even know that there was a show called “Ukraine’s Got Talent.” And I didn’t know there was such a thing as sand animation.
I also didn’t know much about the German invasion of the Ukraine in WWII. But here, an artist portrays the invasion with just […]

With my recent posts about the wonders of fall colors, it’s just as well that some things from yesterday’s morning readings reminded me of a little perspective.
From “Daily Lives:”
Love which stems from created things is like a small lamp whose light is sustained by being fed with olive oil. Again, it is like a river […]

Did a little “shopping” when I walked into town earlier and picked up these goodies:

Most of the trees haven’t started to turn yet. I’m just putting these harbingers in here as a way to tease Greg. He lives in anticipation of the fall colors all year long, and then, as luck would have it, he […]

This YouTube video may not look like much. It’s just a touchdown from a recent high school game in nearby Maryville. But it’s really just a very cool deal. The touchdown was scored by Matt Ziesel, who has Down’s Syndrome, and had been dreaming of being put in the game all season. When his team […]

So, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, Greg went out to take pictures of the soybean fields. But he got so distracted with other objects of primary interest — cows, old tires, water towers — that he forgot his mission. Some good pics, though.

Lovely bit of natural landscaping. But I’m still trying to figure out […]

Goofing around more on Facebook, I’ve become a fan of those short updates. So here’s the way it is today out our way:
Greg and I are working. Oh well. Owning your own business sometimes means that weekends are just workdays with different television at the end. On the other hand:

I’m listening to the dog snore. […]

Good friend C. Sue reminded me that today is the commemoration of a much-beloved saint. This unbelievable sacrifice of a mother and her three young daughters, offered with so much love under such terrible circumstances, is one of the stones, I think, that built up the early Church.
Many years to all the Sophia’s out there, […]

This, from NewsMax:
The Catholic Archbishop of Moscow has given a remarkably upbeat assessment of relations with the Orthodox church, saying unity between Catholics and Orthodox could be achieved “within a few months.”
According to an interview in today’s Corriere della Sera newspaper, Mons. Paolo Pezzi said the “miracle” of reunification “is possible, indeed it has never […]

A commenter reminded me of this post I wrote in 2005 and the reason why I don’t think it’s an accident that a relatively unknown saint is celebrated on 9/11.

I understand the state’s insistence that Christianity not be given preference. But that doesn’t help me make my way smoothly through these two cases, documented in a Wall St. Journal piece entitled “Christian Girls, Interrupted”:
Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents. And two state courts smack in the middle of it.
One of these courts […]