Sometimes social media seems like it functions in reactions to your posts like the audience in educational kid tv, i.e. Dora the Explorer or Blue’s Clues. “Do YOU think I should freak out about Iran? You DO?”

That particular modern book cover print coating that is supposedly “velvety” to the touch is a sensory nightmare and should be banned

I do not do this with my dog, because I recognize that Snowy is, and always will be, an annoying and yappy dog. We chose to put up with her, you didn’t.

From a junior novelization of The Phantom Menace

Can’t wait for Property Rights Sunday

Day off, doing yard work, finding out how many $$$$ the roof repair will cost.

Well. I am tired.

Read the FB comments on the USCCB’s call for peace if you want to feel a powerful temptation to despair

Servant of God Takashi Nagai, pray for us.

Just an ordinary work day today, nothing happening I need to worry about

Mother and Child by Philipp Franck, 1931.

Official US foreign policy

Must be tax return season

Happy Easter Week! For many years, Mrs. Decent Films has been urging me to digitize HAND TO HAND and share it online. Last summer I finally dug up the original artwork and had scans made—but I’ve been waiting till Easter to share it. 36 years after its creation, here it is. I hope you enjoy it!

That new Harry Potter series looks kind of dark

One of my kids is especially grumpy today and is manufacturing reasons to be mad at various siblings in a way that is extremely transparent and also very relatable in a bad way.

Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School Movement and Art Nouveau #WomensArt

Teenagers setting up the egg hunt and then watching the small kid chaos from above on the deck like decadent Romans

Since people are clearly appreciating his work, here's my absolute favorite image by Allan Rohan Crite, his stunning and deeply felt "Streetcar Madonna" from 1946

Allan Rohan Crite, "Easter Day," 1968

"Easter: The Lord is Risen" by African American artist & illustrator Allan Rohan Crite, who suffused his work with deep religious feeling and is now featured in an exhibition at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum, through late July zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibiti...

Christ Leading the Thief into Paradise by Joakim Skovgaard, 1890.

Noli me tangere by Koloman Moser, 1913.

Pretty pretty nice Easter brunch

Please do not make me think about him on Easter of all days.

His Easter treat / her Easter treat

Filled Easter baskets (candy for kids, fish for wife) and off to bed.

Tove Jansson (Finnish, 1914–2001), Moomin and sisters Mymble and Little My paint an #Easter egg #womensart #Moomins

The Resurrection by Daniel Mitsui. He is Risen!

Just got back, extra long this year because our parish had nine people entering the Church!

The last free man in America

Stoked that everything aligned to go to the Easter Vigil tonight. Always been my favorite liturgy since childhood.

Made fatayer, Middle Eastern spinach and feta pies, for Easter tomorrow. They look like baked Starfleet badges

Sourdough

Anybody wanting to be a celebrity Catholic should be forced to read Mort d’Urban once every year

The ducks laid three eggs but as I picked them up I realized one of them had no shell. It was still warm and burst all over my hand. Not my favorite thing to experience

The Harrowing of Hell by Joakim Skovgaard, 1890s.

Pieta by Rosso Fiorentino, c. 1530.

Remembering my misspent youth (staying up until midnight on Good Friday to go to Jack in the Box to break my fast with tacos and burgers)

“Ok, Lenten karaoke party but you can only choose songs from the Prince of Egypt soundtrack” —Aletheia coming up with good ideas

Youngest kid is trying to get me to say yes to something mom said no to and I am explaining the concept that we speak collectively even if you only consulted one of us when it comes to rules

Christ bearing his Cross through a city, by Eduard von Gebhardt, early 20th century.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

Apple blossoms / cherry blossoms. We have two apple trees and one sour cherry tree

The ducks keep producing two eggs between themselves every day so I keep singing Two More Eggs, Two More Eggs as they are gathered

The Crucifixion by Jan Toorop, 1920.

My sick kid has been home from school and binging The Magic Schoolbus all day and I had forgotten how weird some of those episodes are

Enduring the curse of the Sharon repost

s e c r e t k i t t y c a t

I asked what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday, and she said to surprise her, so. I think this is gonna be the Swayziest birthday of them all