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Orthodox Christian widow; mother of five and grandmother of eighteen (including one great-grandchild), living in Northern California.
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Reality is a thing in which we can repose. G.K. Chesterton

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Revisiting my Valley Oak.
Notable birthdays of May 29th.
Back in the dark before I remember.
Springtime garden soup.
Our hearts soar at Ascension.

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Psalms quoted are from The Psalter, translated from the Greek Septuagint by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007. The numbering of the Psalms in the Septuagint differs from that found in Psalters and Bibles translated from the Hebrew.

Best Recent Reads:

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Ethics of Beauty by Timothy G. Patitsas

The Sunlilies by Graham Pardun

Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart

Our Father by Alexander Schmemann

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

Christ the Conqueror of Hell by Hilarion Alfeyev

Strength in Weakness by Bishop Irenei Steenberg

Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart

The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz

1984 by George Orwell

Up and Down California by William H. Brewer

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