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Leaf love
The girls and I went for a walk (in their case, a run) last week looking for leaves to sketch for our inaugural leaf study. As with most topics in nature study, this…
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Divine life in human conditions
Hence, as a better writer has said, our imitation of God in this life — that is, our willed imitation as distinct from any of the likenesses which He has impressed upon our…
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But for what nature does to us
Many people — I am myself one — would never, but for what nature does to us, have had any content to put into the words we must use in confessing our faith.…
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Heart of Darkness
This is one classic I was never assigned in my voyage through academia. Having recently read Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible, I decided now would be a good time to continue the focus on…
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Parenting food for thought
This is a post that’s been in my drafts folder for about a year. It has to do with a book I haven’t finished called Kids Are Worth It! by Barbara Coloroso. It’s…
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Fox tales
Back in the spring, we heard a gray fox bark nearly every night for awhile. It’s a disturbing sound, screamy and rather tortured. (There are some examples at youtube.) It would always begin…