Just. No. Words.

'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.' Nick Cave.

Did you know? "Ghost Apples" are a phenomenon happening when freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall. When the rotting apple becomes mushy, it falls out of the bottom leaving its icy shell behind. These ghost apples were spotted in Michigan. [📸 Andrew Sietsema]

How beautiful! ❤️ When her baby wouldn't stay without the mother, she brought the child onto the dance floor, and they danced together ...

Grace

Rain sweeping over Admiralty Inlet

I medaled! No, not in the Olympics…. TWIN A placed as a finalist in the Indie Book Awards Memoir category. Many thanks to Slant Books Gregory Wolfe ! Get your copy here: amazon.com/Twin-Memoir-Am…

“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.” - Chesterton

Super moon rising

The artist Justin Bateman makes portraits out of pebbles, Through the medium of land art, he constructs intricate mosaics 📹 Justin Bateman

Another day in Paradise

So wonderful to see this heartfelt plug for Suzanne M. Wolfe's magnificent novel from JD Flynn today. I'm biased but he isn't!

Indeed

Mount Baker from my deck

Leonie Caldecott and I will be doing a webinar on 9/4 on Faith, Catholic Art, an Beauty for Britain's Catholic magazine, The Tablet . Join us! ($$) thetablet.co.uk/events/258/web…

The sweet one is growing up so fast. Almost 2 ❤️💖🥹

Such beauty

Forgive the vanity but in the new house I decided to gather everything Suzanne & I had ever written, edited, contributed to, or published or caused to be published. We're going to need a bigger bookcase.

Confession: I thought “repost” was “riposte.” I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when I discovered it wasn’t. 😳🤬