Laughter: A Mother’s Simple Benediction
Someday you may not remember this stage of your lives, my daughters, in which you begin every day with a peal of laughter. I can…
A New Online Home
Dear friends, After a quiet week of breaking ground and making adjustments with Y’s help, I’ve moved my writing quarters to this new site. (I’m delighted…
Mooring Lines for Mental Health
The beautiful Winter 2020 issue of Cultivating is now live, friends, and I’ve written a little about a list I unearthed earlier this month. You can read…
Alleluia
O magnum mysterium et admirabile sacramentum ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Christum. Alleluia! O great…
Little Feast of Firstfruits {Ithilien House}
From last year’s notes: On the fifteenth of July I greeted Y in the morning with the words, “It’s Firstfruits Day!” — blithely uttered, as…
A Summer Letter
I’ve just sent out the summer letter to subscribers, friends! You can click here to read it. (And you can subscribe to future missives here.)…
Lanier Ivester {Deep Draughts}
Beauty touches a place where advice can never reach; a story can articulate a hurt and heal it in the same stroke; music stirs an…