Archive for June, 2007
iPhone Craze
Friday, June 29th, 2007Well, it makes me sick to think of people having to have something like that…and having to have it RIGHT NOW! Sheesh, and the price tag! To use a cliche: What is the world coming to? It’s nauseating to see people who can’t control their desire to have more stuff.
Surprised By Joy
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007I wrote on Cindy’s blog about children going away for an education with masters and earlier below about the influence of the totality of experience on ourselves. I was thinking this because of reading Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis. Actually it is something that I’ve been thinking a very long time about, [...]
C.S. Lewis on Newspapers
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007People have been shocked at my opinion that I have found newspapers to be a waste of my time. I really don’t have much to waste! My main problem has been that as much as I would like to be informed of what’s going on in government, I really don’t have much faith that [...]
Totality
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007As I’ve been reading about poetic knowledge and the Jayber Crow way of looking at things more wholistically, it has made me think of certain circumstances in life. I have often been in the position of being asked to justify actions or decisions or opinions which have been long laid to rest by me because [...]
Beauty
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Go listen to this.
There are three videos. Two are for yesterday June 21 and one is for today June 22. The blond girl (at least) is homeschooled.
Von Trapp Story
Monday, June 18th, 2007The National Archives has an interesting article about the real story of the Von Trapp family.
Hardly knowing where to begin….
Friday, June 8th, 2007Some have been discussing what they’ll be doing for the summer and so I thought I’d add my plans. I really do plan on making up a reading list to participate in SeasonalSounding’s Summer Reading Challenge, but at the moment, I’m not sure how to prioritize my reading and to-do list. I rarely get everything [...]
Bookstore-Hannah Coulter
Friday, June 8th, 2007I felt like a dummy when I realized I had done this. I linked the Hannah Coulter book to Amazon because of the descriptions and reviews readily available, but I really should have pointed readers to Cumberland Books which is where I purchased Hannah Coulter.
VTrain
Friday, June 8th, 2007VTrain is drilling software. It’s touted as vocabulary training software, but the program is so versatile that it can be used for many things. It has “smart drilling” capabilities where cards are advanced as the student shows mastery and continued review is required for items not mastered. Scheduling can be set up for [...]
Hannah Coulter
Friday, June 1st, 2007I would just be repeating what a lot of others have said if I were to say that Wendell Berry is a wonderful writer. Here’s an excerpt from Hannah Coulter:
He was born in 1890. The summer Nathan and I married, Jarrat was fifty-eight, beginning to get old. His hair was white, his eyebrows coarse and [...]