LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

On an autumn day in 2007, while I was visiting from California, my mother made a request I both dreaded and longed to fulfill. She'd ...

[Stages of a Man's Life from the Cradle to the Grave, c. 1848] Yesterday on Facebook I referred to my daughters, who are in their ea...

This morning a Canadian woman wrote such an interesting comment on an old post of mine, "Rationing is not a four-letter word," ...

[Pieter Breugel the Elder, Portrait of an Old Woman , 1563] Deliver us from the presumption of coming to this Table for solace only, ...

[Jordaens, The Supper at Emmaus , 1645] And now back to food as sacrament--what we'll be talking about this Sunday at St Barnabas. I...

[Caravaggio, Bacchus , 1596] A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. -- Brillat-Savarin, or maybe an Italian proverb   ...

[Salvador Dali, Basket of Bread , 1926] Bread is an especially rich symbol (see yesterday's post about how symbols have many layers ...