![]() ![]() I began with The Story of a Family: The Home of St. March 2, 2023: As this year is the 150th anniversary of the Little Flower's birth I am making a pilgrimage of sorts through her writings and those of her loved ones. You've got only the hard, bitter life of the workaday world. You may not know this, but our wonderful guide, Therese, has ways to make Roses fall upon you from Heaven. And today is our 40th wedding anniversary - in that same (old) house. Newlyweds, we didn't mind going for the long, grinding haul. Never mind that the interest rates back then were in the mid-teens. And that gorgeous spring we planked down the downpayment on our own new house. Who revealed the start of a New Dawn of Love in my freeze-dried PTSD-laden heart. So I read the original Dark Night of the Soul, by a late-Renaissance mystic, and THEN, I felt my primal scream echoed. There I was, wiped out, washed-up and bereft of my traditional comforter. ![]() ![]() Don't ever surf that monster wave, friends, without a sane bit of healthy R&R! Don't let the Machine chew you up & spit you out too. ![]() The high screaming stress of non-stop work. My wonderful Mom died 40 years ago this year. ![]()
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