Category Archives: My View

… at least for a little while. Some of you WDTPRS vets have seen the Z-Cam in times past.  I used to have it set up and on in the chapel of "The Sabine Farm", where I live when I … Read More →

Here are a couple shots of a vestment used yesterday for All Souls.   A detail:   Contrast this with a vestment I saw recently: No details of this one are needed. 

I simply have to show you a great photo of child I baptized. There are a couple more, here and here. The young feller is named Giuseppe.  He one of the several children of a dear friend of mine in … Read More →

A warm xie xie goes out to the kind soul, JW, who plucked an item from my amazon wish list and sent me some Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong Tea. I am sipping it with appreciation right now on this … Read More →

Here at The Sabine Farm it is Labor Day, though every day is a day of labor at The Sabine Farm. Today I share with you readers the purple fruits of the place. Here are some grape bunches.  It wouldn’t … Read More →

On the deck, with the little steeple of the Sabine chapel in the background. One bottle of the Widow is in the seau a glace, the other sits patiently on the MP itself (which remains under embargo until noon Rome … Read More →

On the Z-Cam in the Sabine Chapel, I have an audio loop playing 24/7.  Right now one of the sections in the loop features a famous prayer for detachment by St. Thomas More, whose feast is celebrated today.  With a … Read More →

The flights went without flaw yesterday.  Everything at the Sabine Farm is just right.  No sign of mice. My car started. This morning brought the predicted "big American breakfast"  to which I had been looking forward.  The local library had … Read More →

There is a tradition in Rome on Pentecost Sunday.  At the Church S. Maria ad Martyres, the Pantheon, at the end of Mass red rose petals are let fall in great abundance through the oculus, the dome’s "eye" which is … Read More →

ALERT: I have zeroed in on a restaurant specializing in fish which, amazingly, I have not been to yet.  More amazingly, it is not far from where I live. Aimeh!  Too little time…. This place is situated along the Via … Read More →