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Doesn't Our Saint's little dog deserve equal veneration? Patron of dogs and their people, and invoked against AIDS and cholera. Saint Roch, pray for us. ("Roch and the Anonymous Saint", egg-tempera by Lucinda Naylor, used courtesy of the artist) Rock on, St. Roch! 3/3
2/2 May our eyes be opened to the greatness and wonders of the universe. "St. Kateri, pray for us." Saint Kateri Tekakwitha by Janet McKenzie
#CatholicSaints Here's a really good one! July 10th is the feast day of Saint Amalburga of Temse (770). She had a pet sturgeon and could carry water in a sieve. She can be invoked against arm injuries and bruises. St. Amalburga, pray for us. Devotional Print; Made by Onbekend
#Purim July 1 is the feast day for the biblical beauty, Queen Esther, who reminds us that God loves us, but love is a two way street. He doesn’t like to be the one that does all the giving. Purim is the Jewish holiday that celebrates her. Queen Esther, pray for us. (mosaic, Lilian Broca, 2004)
"You knit me together in my mother's womb." Psalm 139:13 'Tricoteuse' (2006-07) from the "Sewing Box" series by Dutch painter Jacqueline Alkema (b.1948). Oil on canvas, 12 x 83 cm.
#mayonnaise If you're not slapping mayonnaise on your sandwich with a spatula what the hell are you doing with your life?
#CorpusChristi This weekend we Catholics celebrate the Feast of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, or Corpus Christi. It's a celebration of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. “If it’s only symbolic, the hell with it.” - Flannery O'Connor
What I saw today. This is the only color my eyes want to see today. 💛Japanese Kerria (kerria japonica) Whatcom Falls Park, Bellingham, WA
#EarthDay Happy Earth Day to our fragile, blue planet. “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” - Arthur C. Clarke
#nytimes_connections 💜 1st reverse 🌈🦑 Connections Puzzle #1046 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
#iggypop Do I love you, Iggy? Yes, I do. Happy 79th birthday, Mr. Pop. (photo, Annie Leibovitz)
Remembering Adeline Emma Louise Maass Nietz on what would have been her 100th birthday. Thank you, Grandma, for our blue, blue eyes.
#CatholicSaints #SaintOfTheDay Today is Saint Kateri Tekakwitha's (1680) feast day. "Lily of the Mohawks", she is the patron of the environment and of environmentalists. May our eyes be opened to the greatness and wonders of the universe. St. Kateri, pray for us.
#BookSky📚 Can someone who has read this book talk about it a bit? I’ve just started it and have concerns about reviews mentioning a disturbing part about pets. Thanks so much for
#NoKingsBellinghamWAL NO KINGS 👑 but plenty o’ 🎶 Funkytown🎶 in the ‘Ham!
#KnitSky 🧶 That which strikes horror into the heart of every knitter. 😫 Plus I gave up cursing for Lent so all I get to do is whimper quietly.
"I can never be carelessly happy because I always think something horrible will happen. It is a very German thing to think and it ruins everything." - Karl Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfled (1933-2019) Autoportrait, 2014, signed gouache on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.
Saint Agatha (c.251), virgin martyr, suffered various indignities for her faith: she spent a month in a house of shame (run by Aphrodesia, the strumpet!), was rolled over burning coals, and had her beautiful breasts sliced off. (St. Agatha beadwork, Carri Skoczek)
#trump Grrrrrrrrrrrr! @thenewyorker.bsky.social cartoon by Brendan Loper
"Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 'Pieta the Suffering' in memory of Alex Pretti, 1988-2026 by Janet McKenzie #AlexPretti