A bit of a mystery has begun to grow on our front porch.
Today’s find: Holy coleus!
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Tags: 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Coleus, Gospel of Mark, Holy Coleus
Today’s find: Blood outpoured
I’ve noticed that I tend to look away whenever I’m donating blood.
Even the finger-prick at the start, to check my hemoglobin: The process may be relatively painless, but it’s just something I’d prefer not to see.
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Tags: Blood outpoured, Corpus Christi, Feast of Corpus Christi, Red Cross blood drive
Today’s find: Leafy Seadragon
Strange fish, the leafy seadragon. It can’t seem to make up its mind: plant or animal?
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Tags: Holy Trinity, Leafy Seadragon, Psalm 33, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, St. Louis Aquarium
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
With Us Still 