September 2025

Clockwise from upper left:

• St Mark's Los Angeles God's Work Our Hands shirt
• Parking lot graffiti at Saint Mary's Mariposa
• Late September Birthday Cake for a guest in our usually all girls dormitory
• Bright flowers in flower boxes along Mariposa Street

• With the many updates to Season of Creation observances and the lack of updates to my own existence, I haven't been designing for each Creation Sunday, but I did create a banner using a favorite Isaiah design as the backdrop to illustrate a flourishing world.

• On Sunday 07 September I went back to Saint Mark's LA. Happily it was their God's Work/Our Hands work day and I bought a Saint Mark's shirt. Serendipitous, because my other two GWOH shirts had expired. (Not really. They'd gotten faded and worn so I recycled rather than donating them.) Google AI made this collage. As I've observed, they use templates not available for us to use, though we get a good variety of collage layout options. I especially like the angular ones they started about a year ago.

• Thursday 11 September 911 Twenty-four years. I blogged a reflection similar to those I wrote several previous years because I still couldn't say it better.

• Sunday 14 September I planned to attend the liturgy at Saint Mary's Mariposa that's about a two minute walk from where I'm staying, but the website had the service time wrong. That means I arrived too late for worship, yet in time for snacks and conversation.

• I have a long ago history with Saint Mary's. A few previous lives ago, I was organist there for Patti and Gordon's wedding, and I designed the wedding invitation. There's also some recent anecdotal stuff that's too complicated to write here.

• You may know my (now previous, maybe?) stance on reserving the sacrament? When I told the priest in charge how sad I was to miss the eucharist, she replied they had it reserved in the tabernacle, so I was able to receive (in one kind only), after all.

• Wonderful graffiti decorates the parking lot walls.

• Thursday 23 September Flowers along Mariposa Street preceded fourth Tuesday lunch in Santa Monica.

• Google AI made outstanding collages of our tasty lunch.