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Monday, November 28, 2011

Going for the Gold
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 168 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

I don't have to tell you how strange the weather has been this autumn. Nothing was as it usually is: no sharp October frosts (although the katydids sang early enough), brutal hurricane rains that whipped leaves from parts of the trees, heavy snow that bowed others... You saw it too.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Did You Forget?
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 214 Views :: 1 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

There is only one time in the gospels when I would use the word "wistful" to describe an emotion in Jesus. There were times when he is encouraging, when he challenges a seeker, when he grows angry at the apparent blindness of those around him, but wistful? Yes.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Considering Gifts
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 146 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

There's something about a gift, isn't there?

Whether it is the pleasure of receiving one or that other, special joy, of having found just the right gift for another, gifting and being gifted is a delight. (Of course, there are those gifts one doesn't know what to do with that came from Cousin Myra's bottom drawer or those "whatever is it?" strange donations, but we'll skip those for today.)

Monday, November 07, 2011

Private Photos
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 171 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

I gasped.

There are moments which exist only in an inner photo album, and this was one of them. It was very early on Sunday morning as my bus sped down the Hudson Valley. I awoke from a semi-doze with a start.

We were passing a small field that in the dawning light was somehow entirely greenish-gold. I have never before seen such a color. And in the center of the field a young deer grazed, oblivious of the incredible color around him.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Where Did It Begin?
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 169 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

The world keeps getting older, and I love it.

I definitely belong to the group of scholars who hold that biblical numbers are simply ways to say that things happened long, long ago. For a non-mathematical people, thousands was not a statement of reality, but of either age or immensity.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Pole Vault
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 193 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

We emptied the subway platform into the L train fairly early today. (It didn't surprise me to learn that the L is the most crowded train in the MTA system and relief is coming in five years or so!)

I found a handhold on a pole and was grateful for that. Since it was too crowded to open my newspaper, I resorted to my other early morning occupation. I began to pray for each person hanging on with me.

Monday, October 17, 2011

What Do You See?
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 194 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

I have always loved those visual puzzles that ask which of the following pictures are identical, and then one is forced to look for minute differences. We all look at so much and sometimes see so little.

I was heartened this past week when the Nobel Prize for chemistry went to an Israeli scientist who discovered quasicrystals, atoms packed together in a non-repeating pattern. I understand next to nothing of the science involved but I am intrigued by the fact that some of the greatest minds in his field told Dr. Dan Schechtman that what he had discovered in 1982 could not be true.

Monday, October 10, 2011

First Impressions
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 204 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

The old advice that first impressions count came rushing back when my eye was caught by an article on door knockers, of all things, and how important they can be to those who see them.

While I realize the article was highlighting the artisans who create unusual (and expensive!) designs, our doors do say something about those inside.

Monday, October 03, 2011

Beads, Anyone?
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 213 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

We are the original bobble-heads, as a number of recent events might indicate.

We have epidemics and dinosaurs on both the small and the large screens. On Broadway, a musical as frankly retro as "Follies" has just had a glorious week at the box office, and now historians are urging us to take a closer look at beads. Did you get all of that?

Monday, September 26, 2011

Be Clear
By webmaster @ 12:01 AM :: 222 Views :: 0 Comments :: Sister Carol Perry

On the one hand, there are the new statistics that say the verbal scores of our American students are dismal, and, on the other hand, there are all the ingenious word dodges of politicians who cannot say anything in words comprehensible to the average citizen.

For example, a certain DSK went on the air in France to admit in a carefully orchestrated interviews, to a "moral failure" that sounded as if he had done nothing more than break a shoelace. What he seemed to regret most was not being able to run for President of France, not for having taken advantage of an immigrant employee of a hotel.

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