October Owl

Witches: Double, double toil and trouble
                Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

              MACBETH Act 4, Scene 1, 10-11

 Making at French General with
 Mary Stanley.

 Had to choose between making an owl or
 a pumpkin.  Finished making the owl and
 brought home the wool for a pumpkin.  

Lost it on the Neighbors

It takes a lot for me to blow.
A lot lot.
I'm the type that doesn't think of anything
witty to say
until weeks later.

This evening, I couldn't drive into my happy
garage, so happy to be home garage, because
for the umpteenth time the neighbor
had parked behind our garage to
"unload." 

I waited to see if he was really unloading.
Nothing, nada, nada.
Another car enters the queue.
We live in the middle of a dead end
alley.   

Something inside of me SNAPS.
I start honking like a mad woman.
Insanity possesses me.

He comes out and moves past me. 
I back up and pull into the garage.
But this time I am not going to
to let it go.

My gippy tired body flies
out of the van.
Cussing like a sailor on leave. 
So angry, so tired, so so tired
of people who park in
the clearly marked fire lane.

Mary Stanley pumpkins

In front of everyone I clearly
lose all decorum. 
Neighbors pour out of their homes. 
Watching the little, obviously deranged,
pumpkin woman lose it.

Yeah, I don't know how
we are going to find
world peace either.  

Thrifted Treasures

This jewel didn't come home with us,
but what an adorable project for the
winter break in December.

Maybe have each kid decorate an outfit.

Kitchen Redo

The Pumpkin Cottage gets a sprucing.

 Before.

 

                       

 

Measure twice cut once.

New liner and reorganized. 

Better storage.

School Days

If I am not, 

may God put me there;

and if I am, may God so keep me.

         

                                   Joan of Arc

 

Always darkest before the dawn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preparing for battle with an

elementary school principal. 

 

As an eighth grader, 

I selected Joan as my

patron saint.  Whenever I 

require courage, I turn to 

her.  Just a girl, obedient to God, 

with the courage

of men.  It's all I need.

For many, I am invisible, a tiny

disabled teapot of a women.

Most strangers seem uncomfortable 

with my appearance. Does it hurt?

Do you have back problems?

My my you walk fast with that cane.

Yeah, get out of my way.

 

I don't mind the comments. 

They are strangers, after all. 

White noise after all these years.

What I mind is being disregarded.

 

My brother, Joe, used to say that 

I would go from zero to 60 in under a 

second.  I am slower to burn these days,

but if you bring me to anger, especially 

if you mess with my children,  WATCH

out.

On being Optimistic

I have become my own version of an
optimist.  If I can't make it through
one door, I'll go through another door-or
I'll make a door.  Something terrific
will come no matter how dark the
present. 
                                    Joan Rivers

Amen

On the Path of Light

But Betsie put a finger on my mouth.
"Don't say it, Corrie! There are no 'ifs'
in God's world. And no places that 
are safer than other places.  The 
center of His will is our only safety-
Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may 
always know it."
                          The Hiding Place
                          Corrie Ten Boom


Things come to my intuitive self.
I don't believe in coincidences,
never  have.  Everything happens
for a reason.


The other books on my nightstand.

the sociopath next door
                              martha stout, ph.d
This book is a slow read,  I got to the part
where the child sociopath blows up frogs and
have had to struggle to get through it.  It is necessary
reading for the place I find myself.

click here Bill Moyers', 21 song salute

On Bill Moyers link above, scroll down to
Compared to What listen to the
lyrics.  No coincidences.

                
Here for John Legend preforming
Compared to What

The Jesuit Guide to almost EVERYTHING
                                James Martin, SJ

With God in Russia
                                 Walter J. Ciszek, SJ

Fortune Son  - Credence Clearwater Revival

No WAR in Syria or Iraq.  No support
of moderate  thugs.  God help us.