November 2007
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Snowy Day
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Light Itself
“Instead of the ray of light which was sent through slanting and winding ways into the heart of your darkness, you will see light itself in all its purity and brightness. It is to see and experience this light that you are now being cleansed.” —St. Augustine, Treatise on John
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Rock Nest
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Rock Nest, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Relative Bloggers
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 20071125-IMG_3818, originally uploaded by smollerus. From left, my sister (Studeo etc.), brother-in-law (Electroblogster), niece, another niece (my brother’s daughter), and myself.
Still Summer Afternoon
Still summer afternoon in ominous quiet heat with the few brash birds who break the late day’s authority, like children’s church chatter, hushed by dying rustling leaves prostrating from branches in the boulevard. Distant hymn of a mower and heat’s languid subjects removed in motionless homage at their veiled windows. On a procession of windless regal air, the day parts for the...
“Ah, pious old man! Could you ever have imagined what bewildering goodwill is...”
– Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers
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A New Man
20071124-DSC_0567, originally uploaded by smollerus.
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Meeting the Cardinals
Back in 1979, I had the great fortune to be present in Rome for a consistory of cardinals called by the new Pope John Paul II. Then we attended the open house for the cardinals and went from office to office to offer congratulations. I don’t remember the others at all, but I met the newly incardinated Roger Etchegaray, now President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and...
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A New Creation
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 20071124-IMG_2830, originally uploaded by smollerus. It’s been a big weekend here. And this was *the* big event, the baptism of my grandson.
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Presentation, Poem
[I have posted this before, but I share it again in honor of the day.] Presentation The baby Mary is borne to the Temple in procession, first and last infant given, miraculous, now returned by her holy elderly parents. She is accompanied by the young maidens of Israel, their lamps lit with golden wicks; she is their young queen, star of their people. Anna and Joachim, serene and faith-giving,...
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Leaf on Ice
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Leaf on Ice, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
Hesitance
Hesitance, a pause mid-air between two earthly steps: a teetering. Peter on water looking down at his naked feet, breaking through a tissue floor. The visions that border a wobbling throughway, liquid road. A voyage made on skates, skimming the taut skin of the vertiginous earth.
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Bark
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bark, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Houses on the Hill
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Houses on the Hill, originally uploaded by *clairity*. A view from Fort Funston, San Francisco looking toward Daly City
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God's Initiative
We must not play the part of God. Our responsibility is to be ready for what He does. This is what puts us at ease, because I cannot stop myself from constantly decaying, I cannot avoid it; it is useless to fight against it. The question is that I be true when the Mystery grabs me by the hair again, when He reawakens me, when He comes to meet me. Fr. Carron, International Assembly of Responsibles...
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Foot Traffic
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Foot Traffic, originally uploaded by *clairity*. I love this exhibit for all the photo ops! De Young Museum, San Francisco
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Mother and Child
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mother and Child, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Rodin, ca 1905
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Traces
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Traces, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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Eve
Eve, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Toppled Statue
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Toppled Statue, originally uploaded by *clairity*. In light of the recent beatification of the Spanish martyrs, this photograph offers a glance from the times. From the “Chim” exhibit at the de Young Museum in...
Morning at Sutro Park
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Morning at Sutro Park, originally uploaded by *clairity*. San Francisco
Grace Cathedral in Rain
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Grace Cathedral in Rain, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Last night it was a rainy night in San Francisco. Still celebrating a big birthday, we went to the Masonic Temple in Nob Hill for a jazz night with Herbie Hancock....
Light through the Old Battery
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Light through the Old Battery, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Falling Sun
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Falling Sun, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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Ocean Beach Evening
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ocean Beach Evening, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Me and My Shadow
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Me and My Shadow, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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A Lovely Visit
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 20071108-IMG_3235, originally uploaded by smollerus. with my goddaughter Rosie Mary Margaret O’
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Hometown
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hometown, originally uploaded by *clairity*. Going home for a quick visit. I’ll send postcards!
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Leaves in a Twist
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Leaves in a Twist, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Seedy Side of the Tracks
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Seedy Side of the Tracks, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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White and Light
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } White and Light, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Ever-Lovely
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ever-Lovely, originally uploaded by *clairity*. The forgotten fall trees…
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Shore Scramble
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Leaf and Berry
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Leaf and Berry, originally uploaded by *clairity*.
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Monsters
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 20071031-IMG_1885, originally uploaded by smollerus. This kitty was afraid of one family member’s costume. We had to lose the dead pirate rubber mask.
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Berrydrop
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