“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Persevering
I am 10 days away from the anniversary of The Great Blog Project. I’ve blogged every day since March 1, 2013. So of course, things are going wonky this week. Last night, my computer ate my rather long and complicated blog post. Which is probably a sign to shorten and uncomplicate things. Poor Bulldozer is […]
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astronomy, budget, Bulldozer, C.S. Lewis, diet, food, Germany, history, language, Olympics, parenting, Terrible Tuesday
Terrible Tuesday: Birthday boy edition
Bulldozer turns 9 today. Nine! How did that even happen? It. Goes. So. Fast. He’s getting a Kindle for his birthday. He knows he’s getting it, and he even picked out the case for it, but I told him if doesn’t act surprised I won’t give it to him. We have to maintain our little […]
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End of the day ruminations
We did quite a bit of traveling today, and then quite a bit of other stuff. The result is I am beat and less than an hour from breaking my chain. We can’t have that, so I give you a quote from the book A Year with C.S. Lewis (af) . This has been bouncing […]
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Good and evil
When the forces of good and evil collide, our tendency is to focus on the evil. I don’t know if it’s our innate sense of justice or just the tendency to rubberneck disaster, but the ugly gets the attention. But when we focus on the ugly to the exclusion of the good, we are denying […]
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Legacy
This post contains affiliated links Today is the 50th anniversary of not one, but three influential men: John F. Kennedy (as if you could miss that news), C.S. Lewis (all the Christians say “Woohoo!”), and Aldous Huxley (“Hey! It’s that guy!”). Kennedy is getting the most attention by far, but Lewis is also getting his […]
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admirable people, adventure, astronomy, C.S. Lewis, courage, heroes, kindness, recipes, risks, Terrible Tuesday, Tolkien
Terrible Tuesday: Oh boy
Tuesdays have been pretty intense this fall, with 3 hours of occupational therapy, an hour of speech therapy, and one and a half hours of Orchestra, not to mention the 2 to 3 hours of driving. Just to keep things interesting, we’ve decided to throw in a softball game every Tuesday for the next month. […]
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Musings on the status of humanity
This post contains affiliated links. The nudge rant yesterday has had me contemplating the current status of autonomy and self-determination. Frankly, it’s surprising how many people aren’t exercised about the government doing (more) social engineering. Government bureaucrats shaping our actions and values based on their own arbitrary standards? Yawn. Have the predictions of C.S. Lewis […]
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astronomy, Boston, C.S. Lewis, Charlotte Mason, free stuff, geek, government, links, pro-life, star trek, Terrible Tuesday
Terrible Tuesday: Wednesday edition
Yesterday, my heart was too full for the frivolity and fun of links. My prayers are with the families of little Martin Richard, Krystal Campbell, and the other as yet unnamed victim Lu Lingzi, as well as all of the injured and their families. As awful as it is at a time like this, it’s […]
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“The Lion all began with a picture…
of a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself: ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’” C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds The Chronicles of Narnia are […]
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A quote for the times
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own […]
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