A Daybook

 A daybook

**Listening to:  Washing machine draining; dryer cycle spinning;  grand-baby babbling; Gregorian chant.  (Oh! those ads on YouTube come at the most inopportune time.)

**Gratitude: It's official! My 2 oldest grand-loves are coming in October; my 4 year-old grand-love is out of surgery and in her hospital room; Lovey (my remaining parakeet - I lost his mate Dovey last week) is singing again! He had stopped singing in his grief, but is doing better.  I've ordered him a smaller cage and it arrives soon.  

**Praying: for the victims of yesterday's violence in Michigan; for all the sick; for the poor souls in Purgatory; for a happy death; healing for Melania after surgery and that she can adapt to her g-tube feedings.  Praying for our troubled world. 🌍  

**Terra Dulcis: Well, we haven't closed pool yet --- still hitting some 90s in recent days.  But soon.....  I rearranged some larger items in the dining room finally. I love the change. I'm trying to be more diligent and regular in the deeper cleaning of floors, vacuuming, etc.  Grandbaby is extremely mobile now!  Starting to pull up and stand up to anything he can.

**What's cooking: in coming days I have planned......Spaghetti, chili verde,  - flying by the seat of my pants this week, as is often the case.  In my defense though, I usually cook a good hearty breakfast for Tommy.  You know, us 'older folks' tend to change eating patterns.  

**Pondering: I'm beginning to sense God's hand and some fruit being produced by being moved to a different parish to attend our most beloved Tridentine Mass. Just glimpses of God's Divine Providence at work.  A deep peace.  Some I can't even put into words, but the feeling is real. 

**Current project: I've started a fall-themed blanket (I'll post a pic next week), finished my sister's winter beanie, and sent a baby gift off to new home.  

**In closing, a meditation: 'That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity, you may be able to comprehend with all the saints, what is the breadth and length, and height, and depth.  To know also know the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge.'  (from Epistle of 16th Sunday after Pentecost)

Pax tecum,

kellie