A thing of beauty. : March 2013

Monday, March 25, 2013

on marrying young.

Here are two excellent articles on getting married young, exactly along the lines of things I've been thinking about lately.

The Case for Getting Married Young // The Atlantic

Why It's Good to Get Married Young // First Things

snapshots from the weekend.

just a weekend recap....

these guys finished their Philosophy Theses

night-in-sick visit from the sweet things.

oddfellows brunch with bloody mary's

eggs benedict

Sara Bowes revisited

sur-pies for Alexander

we like to spend our days reading Keats and building Ideal Cities.

-M.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Whispers in the Loggia has a beautiful article on Pope Francis' recent decision to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass in a juvenile prison rather than Saint Peters. Read it Here

another article, from First Things, also worth reading.

God has blessed us so.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

next time around.

Little Joy's music video to "next time around" -- it's so charming, and perfect for cloudy Friday afternoons.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

a gem.

"I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

--The Return of the King

Sunday, March 17, 2013

missing this guy.

mon petit Edmund.

Big Bend: SB2K13

this year, Big Bend was the Chosen Locale of Spring Break 2013. though such a Northeast girl, West Texas steals a little bit of my heart. everything has such a will to live--prickly and stickly and fierce yet so very beautiful.