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History Books
Much though I like the idea of the classical approach to history — going through the whole chronology in four years, and repeating that three times at increasing depth — I have to…
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The Boundary
“The Boundary” is one of the short stories in Wendell Berry’s The Wild Birds. I reread it this week and found it as extraordinarily powerful as I did the first time over 15…
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What’s On Your Nightstand: April 2011
I almost forgot about this month’s Nightstand carnival over at 5 Minutes for Books. I like to participate, to see what others are reading and to take stock of my own mental furniture…
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Rainy days and Mondays
It has rained so steadily lately that the trees are all growing moss and lichen on their bark. I’ve never noticed that before. I do hope some heat and sunshine will dry them…
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The potato peel book
I know. Everyone was reading and talking about The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society last year, and the year before that too. I can’t say it was even on my TBR…
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The dog who ate Easter
Yes. It’s true. You’ve heard of the Grinch who stole Christmas. This is the dog who ate Easter. We came home from the church Easter musical on Saturday evening to find the girls’…
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The cool of the dawn
They took the body down from the cross and one of the few rich men among the first Christians obtained permission to bury it in a rock tomb in his garden; the Romans…
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Good Friday: Nourishing Words
On Good Friday we remember the strange pairing of defeat and triumph, of suffering and power, in the Son of God. John Donne likens Christ to a sun that gave every appearance of…
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Playing with my new camera
A few months ago, the LCD display went blank on our camera. We could take pictures, but we could no longer see what we were capturing until the pics were downloaded to the…
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Revisiting Wendell Berry’s “Fidelity”
Yesterday, we buried my daughter’s hamster. She was injured a week ago, then endured a trip to the vet and a week of pain medication before quietly slipping away. Did she die of…