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Mother’s Day Sights
I promise this will be the last photo post for awhile. But I don’t have time to write about the other things on my mind today, and I DO have some photos from…
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Mother’s Day (and Bilbo Baggins)
We spent some time at my parents’ house yesterday, celebrating Mother’s Day and retrieving two kids, a dog, a rabbit, and two hamsters. My husband and I had gone to our denomination’s District…
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Chipping sparrow
This pretty little chipping sparrow is becoming a regular visitor. We think of sparrows as “common,” but I think this is a really lovely, delicately marked little bird. Maybe we’ll have a family…
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Caddie Woodlawn
It took us a long time to read Caddie Woodlawn. But we never lost the thread, and our interest never waned. I enjoyed this book when I was a child, and I enjoyed…
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Bible musings
Every now and then I feel an unsought skepticism when I’m reading my Bible. Last week I read the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife in Genesis 39. I was struck by how…
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Goodnight Mister Tom
Goodnight Mister Tom is… heartbreaking. Inspiring. Eye-opening. It’s heartbreaking because it depicts two ways people can damage and destroy one another: child abuse and war. William Beech, a little boy evacuated from a…
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Signs of spring
I don’t have much to say, but I’ve been feasting my eyes on the sights of spring. This handsome grosbeak appeared for the first time today. Earlier this week, I got to observe…
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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…