Cultivating My Garden
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~ Cicero I can’t believe I’ve never come across this quotation before today, but I’m beginning to believe it. Certainly few things give me as much pleasure as do reading and working...A Work in Progress
Every morning, when I get home from driving William to school, I get out of my car, start, walking toward the house, and then stop and stand staring like an idiot at my garden. My neighbors probably think I’m crazy (actually, they already have plenty of other...In the Garden Part II
Mima loved to garden. There were flowerbeds everywhere–at the road, next to the carport, around the tree, right in front of the front porch, by the back porch. She did all her own gardening right up until she had her first stroke. As a child, I didn’t...In the Garden
I’m tired and still have work to do this evening, so I’m going to begin a two-parter: mostly pictures of my garden today, and then a post about gardening tomorrow. I hadn’t seriously gardened in a long time–years, really–but this year I...
Essence de Mai
Doesn’t that sound like a good name for a perfume? Too bad God doesn’t put the ones he designs into bottles. This one is available only in May, usually in the early morning or late evening hours. The air is cool and the smell outdoors is like nothing...
Pink Salt Riot
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What I like to remember on September 11.
September 11: Remember the Love | Life in Every Limb
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Everyone who’s old enough to remember has a 9/11 story. Mine is probably fairly typical of those of us with no personal connection to the events, and I’ve never written about it because it feels t...
And now the post you've all been waiting for--a belated review of 2022 in 12 pictures!
12 in 2022: A Year in Pictures | Life in Every Limb
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Ten years ago, I joined a link up to post 12 pictures, one for each month of the previous year. When that link up ended, I found another one. Now that one no longer exists, but I’m still doing this ...
It's an annual tradition, very late, and it's a great way to learn more about me and my blog.
2022 in Review: Your Favorites, My Favorites | Life in Every Limb
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I present to you an annual tradition that is happening later and later: the best/favorite posts from the prior year, as picked by you (my readers) and me. YOUR favorites are simply the posts that got ...
Is a faith nurtured primarily by media slanted in one direction or the other likely to bear good fruit, like humility and love, or rotten fruit, like pride and hatred?
By Their Fruits | Life in Every Limb
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“By their fruits you will know them,” we read in the Gospel. “ . . .[E]very good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tre...
We are all called to evangelize but there are many ways to go about it!
A Tale of Three Evangelists | Life in Every Limb
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I have mentioned before that my favorite Gospel stories involve Peter, my favorite saint. I love Peter because he is relatable. He is human and makes mistakes, some bigger than others. Yet Jesus chose...
