“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Kentucky edition
We’re still in Louisville, so I thought I’d do a Kentucky-themed folk song (and the state song), “My Old Kentucky Home.” Frederick Douglass once said the song awakened “the sympathies for the slave, in which anti-slavery principles take root and flourish.” It’s striking that in 1852 a song that rather mildly suggests that the lives […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Steeped in story
This post contains affiliated links. This afternoon, we’re all laying around reading and listening to our folk song playlist until it’s time to go to my daughter’s softball tournament. It’s a nice bit of downtime sandwiched between to periods of frantic activity, and I’m appreciating the mellow atmosphere. The girls are listening to Rilla of […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Jump start on June
May has five Fridays, and June will be full of extra travel, so I’m getting a head start on our June pieces. I love the hymn, “I love to tell the story.” It makes me think of small country churches and dusty hymnals. Hymnals should be a thing again. Bring back the hymnal! Down with […]
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Fine Arts Friday: “All things seem possible in May.”
This post contains affiliated links. May is upon us, and for Texans, that really means summer — bearable and mild summer — but summer nonetheless. Yes, I realize the calendar says “spring,” but 90 degree days says “grab a glass of ice tea, it’s summer.” I wish our local pool would acquiesce to that reality […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Telling THE story
One of the purposes of art is to tell a story. The story of Jesus, particularly his death and resurrection, has been told in art again and again. In painting, drama, song, and literature, we tell over and over again the gospel — that Christ died for our sins and rose again that we […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Sing with me!
New month, new songs. You know the drill. The hymn will sound very familiar, being set to the same tune as my favorite hymn. It’s nice when you already know the melody. The words are also lovely. Lord of All Hopefulness Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, whose trust, ever childlike, no cares […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Thanks a lot, Dickens!
This month’s hymn is “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” a still popular though often altered hymn. You’ll find lovely versions by All Sons & Daughters and Fernando Ortega. I chose a version by Chris Rice because it leaves the second verse intact: Here I’ll raise my Ebenezer; Hither by Thy help I’m come; Of course, […]
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Fine Arts Friday: February stuff
Time for new songs for a new month. I’ve pretty much abandoned the Ambleside rotation this month and instead have chosen things that fit with our other studies. For our hymn this month, I chose one to go along with a sermon series our church is doing on revival. The key verse of Psalm 85:6 […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Free stuff!
The Getty Publications is offering over 250 art volumes as free downloads. A myriad of topics are covered, from Pieter de Hooch to Ancient Gems and Finger Rings. That got me thinking about other fine arts resources available for free. I feel rather strongly that while information may want to be free and whatnot, violating copyright […]
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Fine Arts Friday: New Year, New Stuff
Cribbed from The Common Room’s Facebook Page — a thoroughly likable page. (Hint hint.) “‘Education is the Science of Relations’; that is, that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, nature lore, handicrafts, science and art, and upon many living books, for we […]
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