Bad week, everybody? There, there. Here is your favorite blanket, and while the tea water is heating up, here are eight lovely things:
A lovely hummingbird, fast asleep in a pot:
A lovely murmuration of starlings:
A lovely man playing a homemade cucumber trumpet:
A lovely way to waste time (via Thomas McDonald, who I'm pretty sure stole it from me in some way)
A lovely setting, sung by lovely Russians, of "By the Waters of Babylon" via Elizabeth Scalia:
A lovely compensation for the dying of the summer: pomegranates are almost in season! I may not even buy any this year -- I just enjoy knowing that, all over the place, there are edible jewels growing on trees.
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Oh, lovely pomegranates!
The lovely Ella Fitzgerald:
And a lovely bit of background to this post: my baby has a fever, so I gave her some ibuprofen. I held her as I typed, and she nursed herself to sleep . . . and then nursed herself back awake again. And now she is cool and happy. Oh, lovely nursing! Oh, lovely modern medicine! Oh, lovely baby.
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Beautiful! Love! Thank you!
lovely!
From a soul weary mom: thank you!
The starlings were cool! If I saw that in real life, I would have been terrified. I would be sure the world was ending.
Oh, and I’m so glad the little one is doing better!! :)
Ah, yes. “The Man I Love”. A hit song by George and Ira Gershwin in 1927. This and others are my favorites from the Tin Pan Alley days.
My former employer was Greek & their tradition was to give a pomegranite as a good luck gift in the fall. You were supposed to either eat it immediately or set it in some special place until the following year.
The result was that each year we had semi-rotten/semi-petrified pomegranites in random places at work.
Ahhhhh lovely, lovely loveliness. When it’s that lovely I suddenly become suspicious that hormones are helping to plot more loveliness.
Thank you for the wonderful gift of peace and enjoyment.
“By the Waters of Babylon” was pretty stinkin’ amazing. I think i may have to employ listening to my St Hildegard of Bingen CD more often for stress release. I’ve completely neglected it. The murmuration… wow. I enjoyed all of the tranquil videos. God speaks to us through beauty.
What a helpful reprieve. thank you. I have been feeling very weary in regards to Internet apostolate, comboxes, etc. I actually deactivated my FB to take a break from it all and refocus on building my peace in God and abandoning my own hubris. I honestly don’t know how you do it and stay sane. The post was tranquil and wonderful, thank you again.
Anne ,
I hear you.
I listened to a lady on EWTN-sorry I can’t remember her name-but it was on the program with Colleen Carroll Campbell(or Campbell Carroll?). The lady being interviewed had been a correspondent in a mainline news agency & said it was very important for us to continue to shed light on the truth & counteract the liberal/secular media bias.She said a great way to do that was through things like commment boxes.
So, it’s important to take time off to regenerate.It can get pretty dark & overwhelming,the internet’s scary place. But I think it’s an important mission to respond to error-when we can.And to not be discouraged.And it’s good to hear from those in the media that we do make a difference after all.
Thank you so much for each one of these wonderful things. Ella just sounds great on my iPad and makes me think of my husband who had to work tonight and will be home in an hour. We really should have a date. And I’m so glad the baby is feeling better. I loved nursing. It seemed to solve so many baby problems and make the world just a better place. Now, I’ll go have that cup of tea.
I know this is an old post but I can’t get enough of that little bird up there! Never knew thos criiters slept, let alone snooze like that
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