Weather
“…we are filled with wonderment at the changes we see in the seasons and the weather…” St. Montfort, quoted in my previous post I’m not sure wonderment is quite what we are filled with most of the time. Complaint might be a better description. Is there any weather condition that doesn’t inspire complaint? If I…
Ah, some awe at the glory of Creation
Some lovely quotes from The Love of Eternal Wisdom, by St. Louis de Montfort. (from section 33): Apart from considering the different species of angels whose number is well-nigh infinite, and the varied brightness of the stars and the different temperaments of men, we are filled with wonderment at the changes we see in the…
Sunlit leaf parakeet
A new visitor came to the feeding station on the balcony yesterday. It was some sort of parakeet, with a plumage that seemed lit from within by golden light, like a leaf with the sun shining through it. It was so perfectly beautiful. It ate very quietly for 20 minutes or so before disappearing. It…
Sounds
Listening to a Corelli sonata after lunch it occurred to me that nothing else I listen to on a regular basis comes anywhere near that for beauty. The sound of the wrens singing at dawn is possibly second. Silence is right up there. There are some faint sounds of rain or surf drowned out by…
Wish I had a picture
Exercise rider at the track this morning was reading his phone while galloping a horse.
Where’s my atelier?
Some frustrations in recent years have revolved around an intense desire to make beautiful things running into a lack of skill or time to make them combined with a lack of available skilled people to pay to do them for us. Several friends and I have formed an unofficial ‘atelier’ (the common Brazilian-via-French term for…
Go, Camille!
I’ve followed Camille’s mustang training for a bit, and love this theatrical, brilliant routine she did at a recent competition.
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