The Euphoria of Baking

Cranberry Orange Bread

Pumpkin Bread

Pie Crusts
Pumpkin Pie
Peanut Brittle

Warm Melodies

Mostly recent
The candles and roses are from a wedding this summer.
And the wine is from the summer, as well.

Daddy has cold feet.
I'm a monopod!

The Dream Corner

Poetry of Contemplation and a Chilly Walk

(This is ultimately a visual piece, but it's not all the way done.)


Autumn's Day - Of Warmth and Grey


Two points
Reflect the silver sunshine filtered
Through a charcoal sky

A . l a r g e . e x p a n s e
of empty chill. One
Single figure to look down
upon. Upon the stone between
Two pillars there that sway
and moan.
of me, the rest is matte
absorbing grey.

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A commune
of green towers dance
to the Music in my
heart poured from the sky 'nto
my moistened mouth
O voice, how passionate
Thy cry!

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Black Wings
in dancing sheets
Bring back a sweeping
Chill o'er me. But
Strengthening melody still flows
Thru my being and the Tender
Warmth in an autumn's day
still Covers the lifelessness
of grey...

In the Silver Sunshine

Rain and Fog

Thousand Pines - Chorale Retreat

Good Reading

I've been reading The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer for my Old Testament History and Litterature class.

Here is some food for thought from the chapter "The Self-Existence of God"



" 'What possible meaning can the self-existence of God have for me and others like me in a world such as this and in times such as these?'

"To this I reply that, because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological. Some knowledge of what kind of God it is that operates the universe is indispensable to a sound philosophy of life and a sane outlook on the world scene. The much-quoted advice of Alexander Pope,

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan:

The properstudy of mankind is man,

if followed literally would destroy any possibility of man's ever knowing himself in any but the most superficial way. We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is. For this reason the self-existence of God is not a wisp of dry doctrine, academic and remote; it is in fact as near as our breath and as practical as the latest surgical technique" (34-35).



"As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call" (35).





"The natural man is a sinner because and only because he challenges God's selfhood in relation to his own. In all else he may willingly accept the sovereignty of God; in his own life he rejects it. For him, God's dominion ends where his begins" (36).



"Because man is born a rebel,he is unaware that he is one.... He is willing to shar himself, sometimes even to sacrifice himself for a desired end, but never to dethrone himself" (36).



"after Peter had preached the first great Christian sermon. 'Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and bretheren, what shall we do?' This 'What shall we do?' is the deep heart cry of every man who suddenly realizes that he is a usurper and sits on a stolen throne" (37).



"To set our will against the will of Go is to dethrone God" (37).

a litte side note...

Today I also added a colour to my hair.

Everyone knows how much I love and wear green. So, there you are!

The green is interspersed some throughout my hair as well. =)

and the overall brown is darker underneath and lighter on top.

It's quite fun. We'll see how long the green lasts.