November 21, 2005
Dymphna's Neighborhood of God (referencing not piety but chaos) combines the sensory satisfactions of autumn fruits and an Advent hymn. Thanks for the Latin verse with haunting off-site melody.
"Veni, O Sapientia" to us all. In place of the crabbed malign apple of half-cocked ill-informed wilfulness.
ASAP.Even at the risk of derision (one hopes not from Dymphna), we cannot resist referencing the current Martha Stewart Living gilded pears -- cooking-supply gold dust brushed on shapely pears, a green ribbon at the stem, set on a cloth napkin.
[Ed.: remind everyone that Martha's legal team says, Wash pears before eating, even though it's "cooking" gold...]
The beauty and the bounty... We have a weakness for edible art, particularly when on dim grey near-winter wooded-foothill days it could resemble an abbreviated chiaroscuro still life.
Sometimes it's a little too gorgeous in Central Texas.
Or, maybe not.
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