I walked up to the horse farm and back listening to Martin Shaw’s I Set my Mind on the City. It was the first walk back after the bitter cold…
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Monday, January 19, 2026 One evening I looked out the window, Orion was close, and swollen, to the west of the barn, in front of the kitchen window. Where before…
Friday, January 16 While it was still dark, and I would remain in sleep, the snowplow scraped by. He went north and came back south. We had a bit of…
When I woke before dawn, the day looked dark and lowering, the moon cloaked in heavy clouds and silent. Last night’s wind had calmed. Finally, when the sun rose, when…
Sunday December 28 It’s raining warm buckets today. I let Mrs Horse out to stretch her legs, but the rain is so persistent, she stood by the barn, her hay…
The day before Christmas Eve I walked Omalola behind the shed and manure pile. The sun had dropped behind the horizon to pull in a darkness with presence. The clouds…
Martin Shaw in Keeping Focus spoke about how St. Brendan was visited by the angel Michael in the form of a bird. “It was the sound of God announcing his…
The road where I walk has gone from always straightforward, to it depends on how much snow or ice has fallen as to whether I will walk the dogs there….
At Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for St. Porphyrios who says, “You won’t become saints by hounding after evil. Ignore evil. Look towards Christ and he will save you” (137). Ignore evil….
Bruce alerted me to the rainbow dropping out of the clouds off to the west. It practically sat on our across-the-field-neighbor’s woods. I snapped a picture as I walked out. …