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Along the road we dropped into a hardware store for something we almost forgot–bathroom hooks to hang the towels on. We had earlier loaded into the car two doormats, a rice cooker, an electric stove and a…
The painter Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598-1657) lived during the Dutch Golden Age, which spanned the 17th century and saw the rise in the world of Dutch trade, science, military and art. The Louvre has a painting by Breenbergh…
I find a bowl of fruit on a stand by the door, which brims with lanzones, guyabano, atis, apples, mangoes and oranges. I toy with the idea of gobbling up as much of them as my capacity…
While surfing the Web, I came across this little poem by the 19th-century English writer, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, entitled “The Power of Words:” ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death.…
At breakfast this morning, “Litany,” a poem by Billy Collins, flashed into my mind. Collins begins with these lines by the Belgian poet Jacques Crickillon: You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the…
Feeling like enjoying a bit of Mozart one morning, I played his Ave Verum Corpus, a motet, or short choral piece, the version sung by the Westminster Cathedral Choir. Pope Innocent VI, who lived in the 13th…
I was strapped for cash one day and hanging out in a mall, waiting for the wife who I hoped would have brought some funds, when a friend came and asked me to join him for coffee.…
Among the better known works of the 16th-century Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto we should include an oil painting, “The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,” which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York…
Three days ago, the wife and I went to a book sale offering big discounts on over a million volumes. We went straight to the literature section, hoping to find a number of surprises. We saw none,…
While we sleep the world turns — life’s mechanisms keep pulsing and growth continues to gain ground. It seems that nothing can stop the overall advance towards fulfillment, ripeness. Jesus compares this to the kingdom of God.…
The cab arrived within two minutes. Knowing the length of time I usually waited for a ride, I considered myself blessed. Even so, the driver apologized, saying that the live radio broadcast of the NBA finals had…
And so it’s June, the first day. Just two days before, the wife and I drove thirty kilometers south to a little house. We took with us four large pots of white bougainvillea, one of them with…
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