Daily Signet

“A pipping at this shell of mine.”

How long an incubation for this death?
How long a tempering for this creation?
I almost wish for sameness.
I almost wish for easy.
I almost wish for always.
Yet I bring death that will make fertile
the new ground.                                                                      

From The Prayer to the Mystery of Creativity

On This Day…

St. Bernadette of Lourdes:  In 1854 Bernadette Soubrious, a poor French peasant girl, had repeated visions of the Virgin Mary who told her to drink from the nearby spring which then flowed into the grotto below and became the healing spring which still attracts thousands of pilgrims every week

Gertrude Chandler Warner born 1890 in Connecticut, died 1979: writer of children’s books.
Works: The Boxcar Children, Surprise Island, The Yellow House
Quotes: “People should always have what they want on their birthdays.”