Tom Faranda's Folly

Sent around by Fr. Nelson Cuoto, from Holy Name of Mary – my parish.

interesting -  she stayed by his bedside for 12 hour shifts along with another nurse doing a 12 hour shift.

Here is an obituary on the above Maryknoll sister. hit the link – what a great person – what a great life. Sister Virginia had a career as an Army nurse before becoming a nun. Nursing took her to Korea and Vietnam during those conflicts. Sister Virginia Farrell, M.M. died on April 14th , 2020 … Read more

Here Jeanne is with an early shot of her firstborn (me). Probably in Van Cortlandt Park, or thereabouts. I couldn’t put this up on her birthday – short term technical problem posting pictures.      

HA! Good hats though …

Just what we needed – two more chinchillas. Brings the # to eight. But these will definitely be getting homes. They were a few hours old when we got these picturse. Brigid heard them –  while doing some drawing and heard squeaking from the cage. She was drawing a fern so has decided for the … Read more

Ok so that's the gist of this short video. "Never an excuse to not share information." Lady it's China! … Why should they be honest. So much for Globalization.   

And one of the house mothers had to do a delivery! Chris Bell, who speaks for a few seconds, is a friend of ours.  

It turns out – not a surprise I suppose – that we really should stay much further away from each other if running, biking, or even walking outside briskly.  The study is from Europe. Links to the research is in the article. I suppose if you are wearing a mask or bandanna over your mouth … Read more

This was the cover picture for April’s Magnificat. The cover was an excerpt from the painting – the first picture below – and then the full picture with the commentary from Magnificat. I loved it.