Things that make me smile:
- Dog's paws
- Invisible mockingbird singing away
- My mother's glee over the Spurs
- Young purple martins grooming themselves
- My baby grandniece's smile, and the deep wrinkles around her wrists and ankles
Things that make me ponder:
- What is the best course of action when chewing on something and the urge to sneeze comes on suddenly, especially in public
- Why the afternoons seem to be so short, when the days are now actually longer
- Why cats love boxes so much that they will contort their bodies in every possible way in order to fit into the smallest ones
Things uppermost on my reading list:
- I really need to finish Romano Guardini's The Lord and move on to Fulton J. Sheen's Life of Christ, so that I can compare these two classics and enrich my future meditations on the Gospels
- Sharon Old's Stag's Leap, which recently won both the Pulitzer and the T. S. Eliot Prize
- Another hagiography on Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, or re-read The Hidden Face (about St Thérèse of Lisieux)
Things I need to work on:
- My near-addiction to potato sticks and potato chips
- Spending too much time at the computer
- Getting to bed earlier and rising earlier
- Going to confession more frequently
- Not interrupting my mother, even though I usually know what she's going to say before she says it
- Writing something every day, especially poetry
- Remembering more often to pray brief, silent prayers during the course of the day. I used to practice the "Jesus Prayer"; I really should go back to it.
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