As of tomorrow evening, I will have been back a week from my annual effort to polish my meager musical talents. This year, I was especially eager to focus on a slightly different aspect of Orthodox worship: the Church Slavonic language that was especially formulated for worshipping God, in the Slavic tradition. As the instructor [...]
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Reflections on Jordanville
Posted in Falling Apart at the Seams, Health and Its Absurdities, Music, spiritual warfare on July 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Still Frightful, But…
Posted in Falling Apart at the Seams, Health and Its Absurdities, My Life in Christ on January 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This is, what, the fourth or fifth Sunday with measurable snow?! Last week, I missed church, and Father told me on Monday that there were four people in attendance, besides himself and his wife — and two of those were chanters. This weekend, he cancelled Liturgy altogether. A good thing he did, because the projected [...]
Memory Eternal!
Posted in Health and Its Absurdities, spiritual warfare on December 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Two posts ago, I wrote about a young woman named Emilie. I didn’t want to be specific about her condition, but since the link I used apparently didn’t work, I will say that I read about her on her blog, “lemmondrops” (http://lemmondrops.blogspot.com), and rather than writing about her, I provided the link because she herself [...]
Faking Joy
Posted in Falling Apart at the Seams, Health and Its Absurdities, spiritual warfare on December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the blogs I read regularly posted a link to Emilie’s blog. I don’t often ask “Why?!” but this post has me shocked to the core.
I think that for me, the worst aspect of this young woman’s situation is that she’s Catholic. I suppose that’s better than being nothing, but all I can think [...]
Well, That Was Interesting…
Posted in Falling Apart at the Seams, Health and Its Absurdities on September 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I guess I should have written a post before attempting to insert the photo, but anyway, my last post shows this project halfway done. I’m very happy with it, though I’d be happier if I’d been able to do anything more this week. However, Life doesn’t work that way — poor old Dad fell on [...]
The Death Room
Posted in Falling Apart at the Seams, Health and Its Absurdities, spiritual warfare on September 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been reflecting, between yesterday and today, that one year ago I curled up for a nap in the Morris chair, and woke up four hours later freezing cold on a bright summery day with a high of 75F. A trip to the emergency room resulted in my being admitted, and one year ago today, [...]
