Salve Mary Clare! Good for you! I'm glad you got a good score. Tell Peter that the Good Friday service promises to be interesting...I am scheduled to serve with three other servers, one of whom has never served before... --- Esther (3/28/2017)

Salve Esther! Glad you like the poem; I find it quite interesting that your bird is such a snow-lover. Maybe he really does think that feathers are falling outside! Magistra emailed me with "official" results, too. She says that I missed one question. It was a pretty difficult reading comprehension one that I probably would never have gotten correct. This was (in my opinion) a pretty difficult NLE, so 39 out of 40 was great news! --- Mary Clare (3/24/2017)

Salve Mary Clare, Wow, I really like your poem! "Out in the world where feathers fell" reminds me of our parakeet---he gets very excited when it is snowing and my dad says that he must think it is feathers! Magistra went over our NLE scores today. She says I missed two questions, which is about what I expected. Did she tell you what you got yet? --- Esther (3/24/2017)

Salve Esther, I finished my snow landscape poem and pasted it below. It's not a contest entry, but I wrote it because I thought that the world covered in snow (for once this winter) was poem worthy, even if on a Tuesday morning. (The poem is called "Morning After Snowfall.") The world is silent, white, and bright, For beast and bud doth sleep Beneath a quilt of down quite white, More white than fleece from sheep. Beneath the world's cathedral dome, No beast or bud doth move, Save those who wrote on white quilt's tome Their prints of foot or hoof. Out in the world where feathers fell, No sound or peep doth show, For who would break the silent spell Of freshly fallen snow? --- Mary Clare (3/19/2017)

Salve Mary Clare,