like, totally...

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

-La Rochefoucauld

Interesting...

"Eleven charts that explain everything that's wrong with America."

— By Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot

Not sure about "wrong" but it definitely gives a reason to stop and ponder...

Balloon "art"

retirement

that's why we have tradition

revenge of the young

Sacra Ficio

The circle of life...

Paschal Mystery

"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” JRR Tolkien

eternal

The Church Militant

be thankful

So close your eyes and look!

"It's not hard to see that it isn't half of what it's going to turn out to be."
-Fr. Gary Bagley quoting "It's Getting Better" a song popularized by Mama Cass Elliot

give all.

Voices

Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, “Prove that you are a good person.” Another voice says, “You’d better be ashamed of yourself.” There also is a voice that says, “Nobody really cares about you,” and one that says, “Be sure to become successful, popular, and powerful.”

But underneath all these often very noisy voices is a still, small voice that says, “You are my Beloved, my favor rests on you.” That’s the voice we need most of all to hear. To hear that voice, however, requires special effort; it requires solitude, silence, and a strong determination to listen.

That’s what prayer is. It is listening to the voice that calls us “my Beloved.”

— Henri Nouwen from “Bread for the Journey – A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”

Why spend your money of that which is not bread?

In a book called, “When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair,” is a chapter titled, “Remind Yourself That It’s Already Broken.”

In this chapter are these two sentences:

“The nature of things is that if they don’t get lost, they get stolen, and if they don’t get stolen, they get broken, and if they don’t get broken, they fade or fall apart. This law applies to teacups, cars, people, sweaters, pets, computers, earrings and just about everything you can touch or buy or have.”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."

For a bad day...

"God does not abandon us...his love comes to us where we are, with our misery and our weakness, to offer us a new possibility of goodness."
Papa Bene - Letter to Romans on Education

“Blessed are you when you when they insult you.”You do more good than you know. You are the ones in the trenches. You are the ones who love despite the odds. Please do not be discouraged. Be true to God and to yourself and may He bless you abundantly in return for the sacrificial love you show Him." - Fr. Valencheck