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Winter Is Here

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for Jeanetta and myself and anyone else in Upstate NY.Once those temps hit like "Today's High is 32 degrees" Pansy Moss does not leave home.

The weather is so different here than it was 4 hours south in New Jersey. Summer does not hit until like the very end of June, and the first week of September it is Fall. But I have to say, autumn up here is breathtaking. All I can say is "just friggin beautiful"!

Our farm is located in the Mohawk Valley, about 15 miles west of the North American Martyrs Shrine where Bl. Kateri was baptised and St. Isaac Jogues was martyred. His body was thrown in the Mohawk River, so I think that makes the river Holy Water?? Not sure. I also live not far from where Bl. Kateri was born.

It is funny, because when you are originally from downstate NY, the City to be more specific, it is like an entirely different country. People leave NY City and travel the world to seek out beautiful places without realising how lovely it is a few hours northwest.

Halloween and the Culture of Death

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Laura-lady has some interesting comments on Halloween:

I suspect that the commercial success of the holiday has very little to do with the neo-pagan emergence. Yes, we are becoming more superstitious as a society but that is really just a reaction to the atheistic tendencies of the past few decades. We are on a eternal flux between materialism and superstition and the pendulum is just swinging back the other way. This is hardly the first time that a vast number of people have been interested in the more silly and harmless looking aspects of the occult.

No, I think that the popularity of Halloween has to do with something entirely different. It has to do with the Culture of Death. Because one of the curious aspects of the Culture of Death is that it makes Death a forbidden subject ...We ignore the mortality of others so that we can ignore our own....

A hair-raising post from Jeanetta

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Jeanetta links to this amazing story about a Boston woman who, in 1985, woke up from a coma to find that her husband, a physician, was trying to pull the plug on her:

At that meeting, my then-husband, who was a doctor siding with the other doctor who wanted to let me die, held that clipboard which was my lifeline up in the air in front of me. He was not going to make it easy.

The purpose was to prove that the nurses were basically hallucinating and that I was
really and truly brain-dead.

To prove I could not communicate, he then put ink on my fingers and asked while laughing, "There isn't anything you want to tell us, is there?"

In response I spelled out, "D-I-V-O-R-C-E Y-O-U!" The laughter got very nervous then. The doctors called for medication because I was obviously having a seizure....

It is appalling how much prejudiced doctors (and others) will rationalize away as "primitive brain stem activity" and "seizures."

News of St Blog's

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Kairos Guy has moved to stblogs.org! Welcome to the neighborhood!

Other new points of interest on our ever-expanding blogroll:

Amy's journal
Musings on Muses
Ora et Labora
A Plumbline in the Wind

Alicia has a great reflection on faith and obedience, and how following the rules helps save us from the natural consequences of dumb decisions.

Our culture, of course, hates rules and parenthood and faith and obedience. So now it is reaping the consequences of hating the rules.

Their excellent taste in professional sports -- and in uniforms. Terry does not approve of the Dallas Stars' new third jersey. But when you put an ice hockey team in Dallas, this is the kind of mutant result you're going to get.

KTC on hiatus

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Kathy the Carmelite is going on hiatus for at least six months; T.S. O'Rama very kindly posted her goodbye.

Praying for you, Kathy. You've always set such a good example of charity, and in this new chapter you are setting a truly heroic example of sacrifical love through wifely submission.


Di Fattura Caslinga: Pansy's Etsy Shop
The Sleepy Mommy Shoppe: Stuff we Like
(Disclaimer: We aren't being compensated to like this stuff.
Any loose change in referral fees goes to the Feed Pansy's Ravenous Teens Fund.)


Pansy and Peony: The Two Sleepy Mommies



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