I have been a bit lax with blog posts for a week or so. Dealing with a few issues.
But here are some Happy Bringers (a day late) :
1. This beautiful old, OLD live oak tree near us here in Historic District Savannah. It may be gnarled and off-balance a bit (hmmm, so am I), but it is magnificent in its glorious longevity.
2. HR, with his shiny pate, working on our sidewalk plants.
3. My Cold Scallop Salad for dinner tonight.
Before adding the scallops, starting at the upper left: chopped jalapeño and celery; the holy Trinity of tomatoes, green bell pepper, and onion; chopped cilantro; and at the top, grapefruit and lime juiceYum!
4. Placing one foot in front of the other in life.
5. Realizing that sometimes we have to get closer to see simple and natural beauty.
As a retiree, it’s both pretty sad and very telling that the most exciting text (followed by an email) that I received today was an invitation to take part in a diarrhea study. But with the possibility of payment!
My very favorite subject in high school was GEOMETRY.
Unlike calculus, trigonometry, and even algebra, geometry just made plain sense to me.
I mean, everything seems to have a shape. Even if it’s shapeless, isn’t that still sort of a category of a shape?
I also like the way the word “geometry” sounds and even feels coming out of my mouth. Try saying it.
“gee-ah-muh-tree”
Now try saying it a little slower.
“geeee-ahhhh-muuuh-treee”
It’s like getting a teensy massage of the mouth and lips. (Stop staring at me like that. It is!)
And it has such a rhythmic flow.
So yes, I love geometry. The word and the subject.
And apparently, so does my iPhone’s camera. For as I was walking out our front door the other day, minding my own business, my phone looked down and somehow without my assistance snapped a quick photo of our hallway floor, etc.,etc., including my left shoe.
When I discovered the unintentional (at least by me) photo, I have to say that I was a bit charmed with my phone’s artistic expertise and perspective.
Just look at all the geometry!
Circles and squares and ovals. Rectangles and triangles. Lines and points.
If I squint, I think I can even make out a few symbols from sacred geometry.
So even though I have not discovered what the geometry of the universe really is, I do have a better “footing” for my hallway’s geometry.
So last weekend, Robert and I ventured down to Jacksonville, Florida to get away from the St. Patrick’s Day craziness here in Savannah. (We live on the parade route.)
One of our weekend meals found us in the Mayport area of Jacksonville, just off the Atlantic Ocean. and at one of our very favorite seafood restaurants, Safe Harbor.
I got the blackened shrimp and haddock. Oh my goodness!
Robert got something or other, I can’t remember what, I was too busy with my own seafood extravaganza.
Tonight was the fourth and final Taize service at our church, Asbury Memorial, in Savannah. Next on the Christian liturgical calendar is this weekend’s Palm Sunday.
Tonight’s final service was again splendidly simple and peace filled.
The emphasis was upon Living Water.
From the order of service:
“After Pope John Paul Il visited the ecumenical, monastic Taizé community in France in 1986, he said:
One passes through Taizé as one passes close to a spring of water. The traveler stops, quenches his thirst, and continues on his way. The brothers of the community do not want to keep you.
They want, in prayer and silence, to enable you to drink the living water promised by Christ, to know his joy, to discern his presence, to respond to his call, then to set out again to witness to his love and to serve your brothers and sisters in your parishes, your schools, your universities, and in all your places of work.
So come into this place of peace & let its silence heal your spirit;
Come into this place of memory & let its history warm your soul;
Come into this place of prophecy & power & let its vision change your heart.”
CHANT: Let all who are thirsty come. Let all who wish receive the water of life freely. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
May the peace that passeth understanding, the peace of God, which the world can neither give nor take away, be among us, and abide in our hearts. Amen.
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