Monthly Archives: February 2010
Joy is in the sunshine
Each morning I have to go outside as soon as I wake up to allow the light to touch my skin. This helps balance the melatonin levels in my body. Sometimes I potter with my plants, or sweep the balcony, … Continue reading
Writing straight with crooked lines
The rabbis have a proverb that God writes straight with crooked lines. I take this to mean that God can take our imperfections, even our sins, and like the medieval alchemists, transmutes them to gold. I first got an inkling … Continue reading
Shame on me
Well, I am ashamed of myself today. I made a commitment to write everyday about everyday joys and I didn’t keep it. I had lots of excuses. Nobody is reading it anyway. I had an idea in the morning but … Continue reading
Greeley’s God
There’s a line in The Senator and the Priest that really got me. When an abduction attempt is made on the Senator’s daughter, the abductor keeps screaming that she has to be rescued from the hell her parents are dragging … Continue reading
Andrew Greeley
Yes I know, what I am doing reading American Irish-Catholic schmaltz by a priest who is so prolific that a cynical professor of mine once said, “As a sociologist, he never did research he didn’t publish. As an author, there’s … Continue reading
The (problematic) joy of writing
It is really weird. When I seek a direction for this stage of my life, my friends tell me to write. The Spirit seems to be telling me to write. But for the life of me, I can’t think what. … Continue reading