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December 2020

December 23, 2020
Mighty Athena looks over the castle each Christmas night. Athena is our cat, making twenty...
December 22, 2020
Last night I went out with my binoculars, a star chart on my mobile, and...
December 21, 2020
This year we should enjoy whatever is good, even when it isn't much. Here is...
December 20, 2020
Christmas has villains: Caesar and Herod. Far off in Rome, Augustus Caesar was a colonial...
December 19, 2020
Love (true love) and desire should go together, but sometimes do not. That Hideous Strength, the...
December 18, 2020
An adult child that will remain nameless found our new creche arrangement highly inappropriate. *...
December 17, 2020
May we make some music, as we can, and so create our own beauty wherever...
December 16, 2020
“And Mary said. . .” I have been stuck on these words that come just...
December 15, 2020
Bet on the fairy tale.  Not the Hallmark version, but the hard Grimm truths that...
December 14, 2020
The politics of Christmas are the incarnation of jollification: the righteous losers end up winning,...
December 13, 2020
Every year comes the day when light is less and darkness is greater. Will the...
December 12, 2020
There were Zealots in Palestine. They rallied and wrote that God was on their side....
December 11, 2020
Humility. Meekness. Tenderness. There is glory, angelic might, omnipotent God, and three magi, but there...
December 10, 2020
My first Christmas creche from infancy is in my home office, our children's first creche...
December 09, 2020
Here is a proposed general rule for a first read on new books, a first...
December 08, 2020
Chuck Yeager is gone to Glory. As the West Virginia state song puts it, all...
December 07, 2020
If I am very sad, I call Dad and Mom and ask them to pray...
December 06, 2020
All the jollification was there when we celebrated the advocate of children and orthodoxy: jolly...
December 05, 2020
We need every different voice: men, women, the older, younger, all the family.  If we isolate...
December 04, 2020
Make beauty where you can, spending if you must, but be warned of those who...
December 03, 2020
Bishop Thomas, a friend of our School and College, sends greetings as we approach the...
December 02, 2020
The very smallness is what is fascinating. Miniature London is well underway in our house....
December 01, 2020
When I was a baby, on my first Christmas, my family had a very simple...

November 2020

November 30, 2020
If I have a bad day, I call my dad and say: “It is another...
November 29, 2020
We got out our first Christmas ornament last night from thirty-five years ago as we...
November 28, 2020
Many of our Christmas pictures this COVID year will have masks over beloved faces. Our...
November 27, 2020
Christmas is coming, but Advent is here. The College and the School at Saint Constantine...
November 26, 2020
The wonder puppy-almost-a-dog Nessie rests when she is tired. As she spends much of the...
November 25, 2020
Social media reminded me that four years ago last week, I began to pray for...
November 24, 2020
Small wonders fill us with thanksgiving: this is the lesson of young Nessie. We are...
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