A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Placed in front of a dreamy classic farmhouse on the shores of Lake Michigan, this tiny schoolhouse is one of the cutest Little Free Libraries I've discovered so far. Unfortunately, the taste of whomever stocked the shelves was not classic and I left empty-handed. The owners of the beautiful home, however, not only have great architectural taste, but are also fans of the poetry of Yeats, as they have given their property the name "Innisfree" after his bucolic poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." No doubt they are wealthy city folk, who built or found their dream home here at the water's edge with these lines in mind:
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
Liturgical: Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.
Bishop Barron's reflections today.
Sanctoral: St. Romuald, founder; St. Juliana of Falconieri, Virgin; Saints Gervase and Protase, martyred at Milan in the second century. St. Ambrose discovered their bodies in 386. They rest now, with the body of St. Ambrose himself on the altar of the crypt of St. Ambrose church at Milan. They are invoked in the Litany of the Saints.
Human: The festival of Minerva was celebrated in ancient Rome at her temple on the Aventine hill (also on March 19 and September 19) -- Romans exchanged gifts in honor of Minerva – goddess of wisdom, war, arts and crafts; Juneteenth (a federal holiday since 2021); Birthday of Blaise Pascal (mathematician and physicist) – 1623; Death of J. M. Barrie (author) – 1937
Natural: What is the widest tree known to man?
The tree with the largest circumference ever recorded was 190 feet around, a European chestnut known as the “Tree of the Hundred Horses” on Mount Etna, Sicily. Measured in 1770, the tree is now in three, widely separated parts. The biggest tree in the United States is the giant sequoia “General Sherman” in Sequoia National Park, California, with a girth of 102.6 feet.
Italian Word of the Day: Piscina (swimming pool)
Quote: "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." --Blaise Pascal
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