Pentecost

Our parish priest was away this week, presenting at the Healing Land Homesteading conference. Usually, when he’s gone, we take the opportunity to attend Mass at our previous parish in town. But this week, we decided to visit the Melkite mission instead. When we arrived, though, no one was at the church. Had I gotten…

Spring and Solitude

It’s been a busy time here in the woods. I really should get a good camera. There are adorable goat-babies frolicking around (and on) their mother. There are ugly goslings hissing at me from their tiny mouths. There are ducklings and chicks and their enthusiastic-but-over-large dog-friend. There are pigs rooting around in the earth. The…