Week 28 (2023) - by Haley Baumeister
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How Philosophy Ruined Art — Carrie Gress, Theology Of Home — “All of this might seem a bit pedestrian. Of course, this is just what art is today. But what did all of these ideas supplant? What did we lose in the exchange? What was sold off in that grand intellectual rummage sale?”
Say My Name: Self-Deception, Transparency, And Redemption In The Breaking Bad Universe — Kenneth Craycraft, Church Life Journal — “But the man Kim leaves behind, James McGill, seems to have fulfilled the necessary—and perhaps even sufficient—condition for his redemption.”
Living With Religious Scrupulosity Or Moral OCD — Alan Noble, Plough — “This means accepting a peculiar kind of suffering. Ask me to sacrifice my life for my family and I will, without hesitation. But ask me to willingly take on the fear, anxiety, and shame of OCD for my family, and I curl into a ball.”
(related: any of his excellent books. I can wholeheartedly vouch for all of ‘em, but On Getting Out Of Bed is the relevant one here.)
An Inconvenient Tree — Emma Durand-Wood, Strong Towns — “But after spending a lot of time humbly observing what’s happening with our city’s trees and pushing for investment in them, I keep coming back to the same conclusion.”
We Need Secret Gardens — Lara d’Entremont, Mere Orthodoxy — “Mason considered it a pitiable idea that a child may go his entire life and not be able to recognize a bumblebee… Consider the lilies when you fear, remember the tiny bird God feeds when you’re in want, watch the birthing doe when you doubt, and be instructed by the diligent ant—this is how God uses his creation to guide, comfort, and correct us.”
Among Death, An Abundance Of Life — Hadden Turner, Over The Field — “Perhaps, though, this close association of life with death unsettles us. Surely the dividing line between these two polar opposite states of being should be thicker, firmer, and more impermeable to one another.”
A Career Of Choice — Nathaniel Marshall, The Blue Scholar — “…I hope that I’ve given you a springboard for considering the trades in a better, fuller way, one that makes skilled labor a commendable option for your own practice or as a career of choice for the young folks in your life looking for what they want to do for a living.”
The Gravitational Pull Of Supervising Kids All The Time — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic — “I wrote about the snowball effect of helicopter parenting. An independence-minded approach to parenting requires some social infrastructure, if you will, that we... don't have anymore.”
(related: Murray’s previously shared essay Cities Aren't Built For Kids, and Dixie Dillon Lane's free-roaming childhood in Paris)
How Can We Build Supportive Friendships When It Feels So Hard? — Dixie Dillon Lane , Kate Moreland, Radiant — “Friend-dating can be scary when we live in a culture that values busyness and undermines reciprocity. But it is worth trying to teach yourself how to move beyond these problems if you really value mutual and supportive friendship.”
What Men Know About Birth Control, Based On My Conversations With “The Boys” — Alex Rico, Natural Womanhood — “Only half of these men had parents or teachers as resources to teach them about women’s health... Where does this low level of knowledge come from? It’s a sad result of all of us–men and women alike!– having been conditioned to accept hormonal birth control as the universal answer…”
(related: Should You Teach Your Teen Boy About Fertility Awareness?, FACTS, reading on birth control & reproductive health, NaPro Technology, Managing Your Fertility podcast, FAbM Base podcast, Guiding Star Project, This Is Your Brain On Birth Control, Taking Charge Of Your Fertility)
Continuing On:
Verity with Phylicia Masonheimer — Episodes 97-98 — Did God Set Humans Up To Fail? and Did Jesus Really Claim To Be God?
100 Days Of Dante — Paradiso, Cantos 19-25
The Commonplace with Autumn Kern — Charlotte Mason Principles #4, #5, #6
Recipe Binder — After years of being a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants or a look-a recipe-up-on-the-internet-if needed-and-maybe-save-to-a-Google-Doc-but-never-physically-print-it-out-person, I started a family recipe collection in a 3-ring binder with protector sheets.
Even though I loathe being constrained by recipes (and always take the creative liberty of changing at least a couple things) the mental load of planning and cooking for a family of 5 got to be such that some physical organization of our go-to’s (and other inspiration to try) was needed. It also helps to have one less need to look a screen/Google Doc list, and instead have something tangible to grab. (If you have multiple little ones in the chaotic kitchen every day, you understand.)
Highly recommend if you aren’t already on this train.
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