I am in here.
As we saw in the last “Now Reading” entry, I am indeed reading a real book again. Back before my operation, I’d looked forward to all the free time I’d have on my hands during recovery — I’d read and read and read… What I hadn’t realized: the effects that anesthesia and assorted medications would … Continue reading How to Read
HE drowsed and was aware of silence heaped Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls; Aqueous like floating rays of amber light, Soaring and quivering in the wings of sleep. Silence and safety; and his mortal shore Lipped by the inward, moonless waves of death. Someone was holding water to his mouth. He swallowed, unresisting; … Continue reading The Death-Bed
So where I was on Friday: getting the fluid around my left lung removed or aspirated or whatever they call it. So my left lung bottom re-expands. Now, you medical people know that this means I started to cough (which is normal) for the next 2 or three hours (which is not normal). This disturbed … Continue reading Lungs on Friday
Catholicism, holiness and spirituality: Only in love Only in love can I find You, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breath a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and … Continue reading qotd
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