Giving thanks for a sweet celebration yesterday for Jason's 42nd birthday!
A favorite email received yesterday:
Happy Birthday Jason!!!
In the words of Gerald Manley Hopkins,
may your day be "charged with the grandeur of God"!
We love you and miss you and the engaging conversations you initiate!
With many hugs,
Evelyn, Dan, Farris and Anne Carney
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
my gift to Jason was putting away tons of books on our new bookshelves...
Bill's handiwork is beautiful!
birthday dinner
Rudy is always a welcome guest
celebrating with browned butter triple chocolate chip cookies
birthday cheer
circle of friends...
birthday cheer
knocking out the dishes after dinner
dancing to put a spoonful of sugar into the job...
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