Once we have created a workable routine, another challenges becomes clear. How do we maintain momentum, energy, stability and peace? At least part of the answer comes from Goeth: we should love those things we must do. Once our daily tasks become beloved tasks, the routine become less routine. This, I believe, is something we can pass on to our children, like an attitude, for Goethe is encouraging a mindset not an activity. If they see some measure of joy as we cook, clean, mow and repair, they are apt to find it easier to love (in a manner of speaking) clearing their plates, bathing and doing homework. Strange as it is, they usually grow up to be like us."FOLLOW THE HEART: Behind the Cover with Designer Kirk DouPonce" - a step-by-step look at how a book cover is designed - fascinating stuff!
"The Theology of the Bathroom": I can't pull out just one quotation from this one, I'm sorry, but it had me helplessly amused, and thanking God for Simcha Fisher. Because: yes. Very much yes.
"Severus Snape Does Not Deserve Your Pity":
Can I say this out loud? Well… here it goes: it really bugs me when people get all weepy about Severus Snape and his somber, torturous tale. As a Harry Potter fan I usually keep this to myself because Snape fans are a little rabid and also he’s played by Alan Rickman on film, and speaking poorly of any Rickman-played character is probably a criminal offense in most countries.
But it really does bother me. And maybe not for the reasons you would assume."Helpless and Vulnerable":
Having to live in this season has made me realize that I still have choices to make within it. How am I going to react to these feelings? I could choose to ignore my vulnerability, shoving it away from me in denial, putting on the brave face to act tough and strong. Or I can be truly brave and let my vulnerability affect me. I can let it open me up to my deeper feelings of grief and fear—yes—but also feelings of compassion, tenderness and love.
2 comments:
"And so, not wanting to recreate that particular experience, I decided I'd give the bathroom a good old fashioned scrub down, and give the oldest three kids a good lesson in latrinewifery in the process. (They do clean it once a week, but it was mostly a clearing out, wiping down operation, without any vigorous, circular scrubbing, or caustic chemicals, or bitterness against men. In other words, they weren't really cleaning it.)"
EXACTLY.
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/simcha-fisher/the-theology-of-the-bathroom/#ixzz2RaR1lmhJ
Also: "they, too, would be the mistress of a house which was more or less livable except for that one room, that one room which, despite the rubber duckies and the cheery tropical fish festooning the shower curtain, was actually a repository of shame, neglect, loathing, rage, and poop."
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/simcha-fisher/the-theology-of-the-bathroom/#ixzz2RaRU5DxG
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