Hey, we know this one.

One of my fave Mucha posters

C872 Tabu: turning away from (refusing requests of)poets.

Asking prayers for my friend N. and his son B. B. is a difficult teenager with mental disabilities, and N. just can't seem to catch a break, anywhere. 🕯️

Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theatre as a kid.

What's your sign?

Big stretch!

Still Life with Blue Cup (Nature morte à la tasse bleue) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4797

I saw a pair of nuns on the way home from work: youthful, wearing full-length mid-brown habits and mid-length cream? taupe-colored veils? The color of coffee with a lot of cream. Heavy-duty rope cinctures, think enough to moor a rowboat. Anyone have any clue what order they might be? ⚓✝️

GUYS every time we guess the date of the rapture God reschedules it. Shut up!!!! You’re messing up recess for everyone!!! 🕯️

I love the bath song

Turned in a manuscript this morning to the editor who will turn it into a book! More details in future~

A gift from my timeline: ⚓✝

Sleeping woman https://www.wikiart.org/en/pierre-auguste-renoir/sleeping-woman-1897

Henlo

Beautiful!

Sound on 🐾🤍

Omg you must unmute

I know it’s been said, but banning trans healthcare for children is an astonishingly brazen case of society creating the *precise* negative outcome that it claims to be curtailing (irreversible physical and emotional harm inflicted on innocents for the sake of an erroneous ideology)

Fruit https://www.wikiart.org/en/alphonse-mucha/fruit-1897

If anybody would like to toss a few bucks my way so that I can order food tonight without throwing my account into the negative (payday is Friday), here's my PayPal: paypal.me/MToddWeb

New topic: What are you unqualified to talk about? Sports, coffee, 20th-century American literature, military history

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

How to make me feel old: Remind me how old TNG episodes are now I remember watching that for the first time! and dealing with the cliffhanger! *groans*

Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city...." 🕯

Bouquet of Roses in a Blue Vase https://www.wikiart.org/en/pierre-auguste-renoir/bouquet-of-roses-in-a-blue-vase-1892

Changed my username/handle and profile name. amateurmonastic -> rembrandtswife The Unholy Lovechild... -> Saskia van Uylenburgh

Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us.

A good critique that comes out of respect for fandom and fanfic

Everybody give it up for Thecla Also remembering Sr Thecla, a Sister of Mercy whose presence helped my family through some hard times when I was a teenager

Have just realized that when I see a title in the pattern, "To Verb an Adjective Noun", I automatically think of Silver Ravenwolf's books. Anybody else remember Silver? I don't think she's departed this life yet.

New band name just dropped

I think Reginald Mobley may be the best countertenor I've ever heard, and I'm a huge fan of the voice so I've heard a lot of them. youtu.be/pdNjmSzSo1g?...

Seeing these little guys every morning #tinyjoys

Still Life with Lemons https://www.wikiart.org/en/pierre-auguste-renoir/still-life-with-lemons

That remark in 1 Thessalonians about "meeting the Lord in the air" is afaik the only Biblical basis for the idea of the Rapture. And Fr Sam here debunks it neatly.

But not with flames on the side of our face, if you know what I mean

Same

Irruption.

Welcome Autumn 🍂

Re tapers in church, while I was at church on Sunday I found little bits of wax in the shoulderbag I was carrying. I was puzzled for a moment; then I realized they must be remnants of tapers, because I tend to creep around after we use them & take home any that are left behind. *g*

"... it is right for me to face the doubt which is my own empirical self, myself as question, knowing that in myself I also have Christ as answer." A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals (p. 331). HarperCollins.

Ah, these are the editions I had as a child. Read them till I wore them out.

Happy autumnal equinox/Harvest/Mabon/Alban Elfed/it's almost Michaelmas, everybody! And to those Down Under, happy spring!

Do you remember? It was just last night *g*

I went to a Jesuit college in the 1980s & had to take 2 semesters of theology. I had a great time w/a teacher who was a Sr of Mercy, a Ph.D., & a former nightclub singer. She was the first person fr. whom I heard that Jesus was, if anything, a Pharisee, a follower of Hillel-- 1/2 ⚓