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Betty Duffy: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014. The problem with having what Joni Mitchell calls, " the urge for going. So I can chain smoke and throw butts and apple cores out the window while someone else is driving and I'm reading. If we arrive anywhere, it would be nice to arrive at a sunset over fields of goldenrod. There is one such field across the street, and sunsets are pretty there, but the drive is anticlimactic. Monday, September 29, 2014. What could she possibly have to say? I'm afraid I said it out loud to th...
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Betty Duffy: Bits of May
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. May 1, 2015. Would I not eat it? Of course I would eat it, even if it were minted in the paleolithic era. I've been in California visiting Joe who's working here. He's currently on a two week stint, and I came out to spend the weekend with him. The hipsters at the concert were all nice hipsters, Christian hipsters, the kind with celtic cross tattoos and pompadours. Fresh-faced hipsters, not dour ones. Because Sufjan is "secretly" Christian, or "reluctantly, unconventional...I sai...
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Betty Duffy: March 2015
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. ABC: Always Be Confessing. And really, the increase in frequency of late is even less about piety and more about just getting on with life, confessing and moving on without harboring feelings of duplicity and doubt and self-contempt. Time is too precious to linger in that dark place. And the more I go, the less anxiety there is about it, the less of a big deal it is to make the effort, even though the grace received from it is always a very big deal. Wednesday, March 18, 2015.
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Betty Duffy: ABC: Always Be Confessing
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. ABC: Always Be Confessing. And really, the increase in frequency of late is even less about piety and more about just getting on with life, confessing and moving on without harboring feelings of duplicity and doubt and self-contempt. Time is too precious to linger in that dark place. And the more I go, the less anxiety there is about it, the less of a big deal it is to make the effort, even though the grace received from it is always a very big deal. Totally missed the mark ther...
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Betty Duffy: Looks like I wrote something
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Looks like I wrote something. Which has drawn a friendly comparison to For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey. A poem written while Christopher Smart was in confinement for insanity. I didn't know Smart's poem existed until it was pointed out to me today, but I relate to the circumstances under which it was written. Lent has fallen at a bad time this year. I'd thought things were pared quite well already. I really don't know how to suffer. February 20, 2015 at 9:15 AM. I always...
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Betty Duffy: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Looks like I wrote something. Which has drawn a friendly comparison to For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey. A poem written while Christopher Smart was in confinement for insanity. I didn't know Smart's poem existed until it was pointed out to me today, but I relate to the circumstances under which it was written. Lent has fallen at a bad time this year. I'd thought things were pared quite well already. I really don't know how to suffer. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. The logic ...
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Betty Duffy: Sunny, 60 degrees
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Sunny, 60 degrees. I am having a very productive day. I have changed the bedsheets, done the dishes, folded laundry, been to two different stores. And so I will also finally apply links here to a couple posts I wrote at Patheos last week. Disarming My Accuser With the Sacrament of Confession. The Pleasure of Watching a Camel Pass Through the Eye of a Needle. A warm, sunny day makes anything seem possible. March 17, 2015 at 2:12 PM. The opposite is also true. :). Yes Yes it is.
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Betty Duffy: August 2014
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Thursday, August 28, 2014. What's in a Name? Quite a lot it turns out. Thinking about my name, and a theology of womanhood here. Also, from last week at patheos, links to some fun new music projects. Thursday, August 21, 2014. Something's Cooking in my Kitchen. I know it's gauche to talk about your kitchen renovation when there's suffering in the world. But I also don't want to hide my husband's light under a bushel. He's worked hard, and I'm proud of him. Here's a look at our problem before we began:.
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Betty Duffy: November 2014
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Rapid fire decision making. Unfortunately, today he came home from school and said, "I don't think I want to be a monk anymore. I'm going to join the navy now.". Why'd you change your mind? A veteran came into our class. I just think it would be cool to live on a boat. It would be fun to go to war too." He started shooting an invisible machine gun, spitting out staccato blasts of gunfire. I thought this might be the deal breaker. "Uuuuh…." I said. Monday, November 10, 2014.
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Betty Duffy: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. I went for my annual skin checkup, because both my parents have skin cancer, one of them, melanoma. I had a mole removed from my wrist while I was there, and my children are now in mourning. It has been their favorite plaything in Mass all these years. Here, Noisy Toddler. Would you like to touch my mole? Well, those days have passed, like many others with their teething rings and special blankies. The mole is no more. Maybe we should throw it a party. I've been there twice ...
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