Nice landing, wrong river.
Wrong direction, too.
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Père Marquette
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Tags: Illinois River, Mississippi River, Pentecost, Pere Marquette, Pere Marquette State Park
Today’s find: Caper
Feathers were flying all about our patio a few days ago – an oddity, to be sure. And the mystery, sadly, did not end well.
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Tags: Ascension, Dead chicks, Feast of the Ascension, Feathers, Mystery
Today’s find: Seeing the light
When it comes to home improvement projects, I follow an ironclad philosophy: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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Tags: 5th Sunday of Easter, Lanterns, Light, Pruning, True Vine
Today’s find: Dino-power
What’s up with dinosaurs, anyway?
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Tags: 1 John, Brontosaurus, Dinosaurs, Fourth Sunday of Easter, Jurassic Quest
Today’s find: Essential equipment
Golf may perhaps be more than a game – at least in the case of my weak-willed spirit.
For golf, it seems, has a way of teaching me about certain spiritual defects, such as vanity.
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Tags: Driver, Essential Equipment, Golf, Links to LaSalle, Resteck, Third Sunday of Easter
Today’s find: Born from above
Just about this time every year, I find myself reflecting on the fact that I have something of a soul brother in Nicodemus.
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Tags: Born from above, Easter 2021, Makoto Fujimura, Nicodemus, Nihonga
Today’s find: Stuck
We transplanted some Resurrection Lilies last week, just in time for Easter.
Suffice it to say, it’s not going well.
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Tags: Divine Mercy Sunday, Easter 2021, Resurrection Lilies, Second Sunday of Easter
Today’s find: Ardent silence
Unsettling, isn’t it, to recall how “pandemic” took “pan de vida” away from most of us last year…
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Tags: Ardent silence, Eucharist, Francois Mauriac, Holy Thursday, Holy Thursday 2021, Memento Mori, Pandemic
Today’s find: Haunted
“It was night,” writes the Evangelist in the gospel passage we hear on Tuesday of Holy Week.
I am haunted by that night.
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Tags: Holy Week, Holy Week 2021, Jerusalem, Memento Mori, St. Peter in Gallicantu, Tuesday of Holy Week
Today’s find: Heavens
A fair sky gave good account of its vastness the other evening.
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Tags: Cirrocumulus, Heavens, Holy Week, Holy Week 2021, Memento Mori, Self-reliance, Sin, St. Peter
With Us Still 