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ow the cherry trees are all pink with the crabapples right behind the grass is emerald and everything is lush and hopeful i ripped the sleeves off the dress bodice and detached it from the skirt i took in the sides an inch i think i want to make a lining give it some substance this may take a while random feelings of the heart ravings of a lone exile stranger to the rules of art let me robe in homely style james kennedy 18th century posted by lisa at 7 59 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fauna favorites flowers freshness frugality frustration sunday april 26 2026 just live your ordinary life whoever said that to speak about christ and to spread his doctrine you need to do anything unusual or remarkable just live your ordinary life work at your job trying to fulfill the duties of your state in life doing your job your professional work properly improving getting better each day be loyal be understanding with others and demanding on yourself be mortified and cheerful this will be your apostolate then though you won t see why you will find that people come to you then you can talk to them quite simply and about the sort of longings that everyone feels deep down in his soul even though some people may not want to pay attention to them they will come to understand them better when they begin to look for god in earnest st jose maria escriva posted by lisa at 12 00 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith focus fortitude saturday april 25 2026 april saturday i tend to plan my blogging for the end of the day but it often happens that i m tired or involved in something or it s too late or my mind just isn t there anyway i need a new routine my dress is slowly coming together the bodice is sewn the sleeves are on the skirt is attached it went over my head easily and i decided i wanted a higher bodice skirt seam so i ve brought it up an inch but i won t try it on until tonight i don t always feel like putting my clothes on and off i also noticed that the shoulder seams are too low i mean that ideally the bodice needs to be trimmed and the sleeves re attached i have also considered making two thin tucks along the top of each shoulder area to bring in the shoulder seam without having to do it the long way i chose the bodice size which i thought would fit me but it s big that s okay but how much will i have to take things in before i have a hard time pulling it over the head which is why i didn t line the bodice i was going to but realized there might be issues so i creep along it really looks like nothing i ll try to get a close up of the fabric i saw a rabbit outside during the daytime you ve been waiting for me to say something about rabbits haven t you enjoying the light the warmer air who knows they are survivors posted by lisa at 10 17 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fabric fauna frustration sunday april 19 2026 a tranquil spirit we must contain ourselves in patience remembering each morning that our main job is to love god and to serve him and if we don t get things done due to interruptions well it cannot be helped and god will take care of what we leave undone but a tranquil spirit is important saint teresa says that god cannot rest in an unquiet heart i have to remember that many times during the day dorothy day from magnificat april 2026 posted by lisa at 10 30 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith monday april 13 2026 suddenly warm a woodland themed towel from debra i figure that normal temperatures for this time of year should be in the mid fifties not this week though it is going to be in the eighties for a few days so here we go trying to get some more variety in the closet i finished my skirt which is just an a line with elastic waist very basic now i want to make a dress with some thrifted fabric the mr kibble statue holding down the pattern piece it s a soft brushed cotton a very small pine green and beige check i was able to mark it with a piece of soap since the colors were dark enough to show it up here s my inspiration stolen off the internet from here i cut out a bodice piece from a dress pattern i have and sleeves from another i d like mine a little longer like below the elbow i ve been trying to figure if i want to interline the bodice to give it more structure or just line it i think i ll just line it i hope it will be something useful one doesn t always know how a thing will come out or how well it will fit it is a bit girlish but i hope that won t be a problem posted by lisa at 10 02 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels balance fabric fashion friends sunday april 12 2026 by whose spirit god of everlasting mercy increase we pray the grace you have bestowed that all may grasp and rightly understand at what font they have been washed by whose spirit they have been reborn by whose blood they have been redeemed through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit god for ever and ever amen magnificat april 2026 posted by lisa at 9 21 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith saturday april 11 2026 still easter i hope everyone had a lovely easter observance our orthodox friends will have it tomorrow the season lasts until pentecost we have a nice long way to go but after pondering christ s passion we will spend the rest of april and beyond rejoicing in the light of his resurrection learning to come alive in his life fr philip nolan from magnificat april 2026 posted by lisa at 11 13 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith festivity sunday april 5 2026 with the dead hath been love lives again that with the dead hath been love is come again like wheat that springeth green dierec bouts posted by lisa at 8 34 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith saturday april 4 2026 the strange still day holy saturday almost escapes us in the rush from good friday to easter what are we to make of this strange and silent day thousands of years later and already knowing the outcome that tomorrow holds should we just focus on the festivities of easter only a few hours away no for jesus did not pass instantaneously from death to the resurrection skipping over the loneliness and sadness that death introduces into our world thus holy saturday consoles us revealing that even the painful cold and deafening silence of death has been embraced by the lord from magnificat april 2026 holy saturday is a strange still day hanging in an unresolved poise between the darkness of the day before and the light that is not yet with us this is ground zero emptiness and space with nothing left to say or think or do but look unflinching on the sacred face that cannot move or change or look at you malcolm guite diego velasquez posted by lisa at 12 39 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith friday april 3 2026 enough for everyone upon this wood his body bore the nails the taunts the spear till water flowed with blood to wash the whole world free of fear giotto s christ crucified posted by lisa at 10 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith sunday march 29 2026 the inner jerusalem there is an inner as well as an outer jerusalem and that therefore the events of holy week are both about jesus outward visible and historical entry into jerusalem and what he did there and then and also about his entry into the inner jerusalem the seething holy city as i have called it of our own hearts we have our own gates walls and watchtowers that somewhere within us there is both a temple and a seat of judgement and both might need to be challenged and cleansed can i invite jesus into all of that and if i do what will happen from the word in the wilderness by malcolm guite posted by lisa at 9 31 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith wednesday march 25 2026 sleeping with bears i was never more at ease than when sleeping with the bears they were entirely without odor without bad breath even two hours after eating overripe carrion and without any kind of vermin other than ticks which i removed every day anyway aside from a little rambunctious eagerness to play when we first went to bed their nighttime manners were impeccable once they began to snore softly they rarely moved until morning at which time i received a regular nose nudging when it came time to crawl out for a visit to the otter coign i cannot recall their ever having deliberately awakened me my first waking sight of each morning was three pairs of shiny brownish yellow eyes staring silently and affectionately into my face instead of wagging a short tail as a dog would do each bear engaged in a rapid tapping of the claws of both front feet rusty introduced the routine and the other two took it up at once the bears and i robert franklin leslie this book is wonderful posted by lisa at 10 10 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fine writing monday march 23 2026 believe we say that we believe and yet do we at the slightest difficulty we cry to god and if he doesn t answer our prayer within the next five minutes or ten or twenty four hours we begin to doubt we need to get our heart in tune with god s heart because you see he s a lover and he wants us to love him back for this he incarnated himself lived as a man for a number of years and died a martyr on a cross all for me and by so doing reconciled me with his father i believe that this is so when i believe i am like a tree standing by the water and i shall not be moved yet a tree can be hit by lightning but for a man or a woman of faith the lightning passes through them and doesn t touch them because their faith is strong as god is strong god doesn t abandon people you can say to me well how do i get that kind of a faith on your knees maybe not literally on your knees although kneeling can be a good position you ask for it the god who has given you faith in baptism when you died in christ and resurrected in christ is not going to say no to your request if there is one request that he says yes to all the time always it s a request to grow in faith now and then we all feel tremors begin to shake our faith then we must ask god implore him beg him to give us faith to increase our faith catherine de hueck doherty posted by lisa at 3 00 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith saturday march 21 2026 little systems i m back to making bread it seems along with soup a lenten thing to have here s the recipe the soup i made today was potato leek so delicious here s the recipe and i realized from reading this old post that i forgot the thyme it was still good my skirt needs adjusting it s too full which would be pretty on some but i like a little less of it our little systems have their day they have their day and cease to be they are but broken lights of thee and thou o lord art more than they tennyson posted by lisa at 9 57 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith favorites food frustration function monday march 16 2026 bears skirts and dinner on this mountain god will destroy the veil that veils all peoples the web that is woven over all nations he will destroy death forever the lord god will wipe away the tears from all faces the reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth for the lord has spoken isaiah 25 7 9 meanwhile tomorrow is the feast of st patrick i m working so we had the dinner today the crockpot did much of the work the cabbage was in another pan i ve been reading the bears and i by robert franklin leslie published in 1968 the author is a young man in the north woods of canada are there any of these type of men left can someone live like that in this day and age anyway he has to adopt three motherless cubs and he tells the story so well it s a page turner i had brought the book home for my mother years ago and it was such a favorite with her i d gotten her a copy to keep after she died i ended up letting it go as i figured i d never read it but at work last week it came across the desk and i was suddenly interested it s hard to put down bears are more like us than i d realized if you like animal stories i very much recommend it a wild bear grows to maturity and stays healthy for his twenty five or thirty years on a vigorous program of physical exercise and diet unparalleled for any animal of his weight i ve watched both black and grizzly bears swim across the lake three miles wide then climb over a mountain on the other side when easy alternative routes were available to them i have seen black bears gallop down a mountainside and ascend a 200 foot fir without even breaking their speed climbing by throwing their arms and legs around the trunk like a pole climber until they were near the top of the tree the bears and i i saw this image on pinterest and saved it i ve got a sweater this very color although not a turtleneck and not cropped but that s all right i have black suede maryjanes and i could copy the look well enough so i poked around online and found some quilting cotton that is almost exactly this pattern i made a casing for an elastic waist put in wide pleats and it is machine basted if i hadn t been so busy with the corned beef dinner i could have made more progress but it s an easy design to make and won t take much longer to a bear loss of face represents genuine calamity within his local society withdrawal from any struggle most generally incurs loss of pecking rights the established wilderness protocol of who has the right to clobber whom from the bears and i posted by lisa at 10 12 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fabric faith fashion feasting fine writing fingerings form frugality sunday march 15 2026 love transforms o god your love for the world transforms darkness into light hatred into love and persecution into peace through the gift of your only son make us true disciples in every circumstance of daily life through christ our lord amen from magnificat march 2026 posted by lisa at 9 55 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels faith thursday march 12 2026 darkness and light well the split in my thumb is healed and i stitched up the opening on the chair cushion it was awkward using the curved needle but not painful it was not digging into my finger as i said i had barely enough to cover it but it s attached now and i will figur...