Armistice Day

In Flanders Fields

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

 

 

At the Foot of the Cross

Ave Maria

Feast of the Annunciation 

 

Oh, Look-It's the Enterprise

So this story is from December- apparently NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sent back pictures that show something akin to the Starfleet Insignia.  Perhaps one of the lost mssions of the Enterprise?  An alternate reality? Something funky with the Space - Time Continuum? 

Read more here and check out the pictures.

Happy Valentine's Day

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Sonnet 116
William  Shakespeare

St Rosalie Rendu

Rosalie Rendu is one of the founders of the St Vincent DePaul Society.   If you are ever in need of a good project -look up the St Vincent DePaul Society. 

Read more about Rosalie Rendu here.  Read more about the St Vincent DePaul Society here 

Merry Christmas