A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
This has to be one of the funniest photos of Cordelia taken to date, and boy, do I have a lot of them. Here, she is struggling to get the cat to pose nicely for a photo, just like I normally do with her. Ah, life is full of ironies... This reminds me that having a pet is really a great way to teach children how to be responsible for something other than themselves. While I am not as brave (or, one might say, crazy) as Jean Craighead George and her family's 173 Wild Pets situation, Valentina believes we have given a home to 39 cats over the years. I've been fond of felines since I was a wee lassie, and have never willingly turned one away but this time we are sticking to a single pet policy, at least until cats figure out how to change their own litter or until the kids potty train them...
Liturgical: Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."
Bishop Barron's reflections today.
Sanctoral: St. Symphorosa-- a Roman widow martyred in Tivoli, Italy, in the 2nd-century persecutions of Hadrian. Her tomb is on the Via Tiburtina, nine miles from Rome, together with that of seven other martyrs whom a late tradition depicts as her sons.
Human: 64 AD- The Great Fire of Rome, leading to Emperor Nero's persecution of Christians.
452 AD – The Huns suddenly invaded Italy and occupied Aquileia, then Pavia and Milan. Aquileia never regained its former glory.
Death of John Paul Jones (naval commander) – 1792, Jane Austen (author ) – 1817.
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element and called it polonium (after Marie's homeland of Poland)– 1898
Italian Word of the Day: Carino (nice / pretty)
Quote: "The benevolence of her heart, the sweetness of her temper and the extraordinary endowments of her mind obtained the regard of all who knew her, and the warmest love of her intimate connections."
-from the epitaph on the tomb of Jane Austen, written by her brother
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