Weekly Links: this week, it's all about writing

SOME INTERESTING LINKS FOR YOUR SUNDAY AFTERNOON, SET OUT IN MY USUAL CATEGORIES of faith, family, and fiction.

Faith 

-"How Methodists Invented Your Kid's Grape Juice Sugar High"

-"Save Your Soul: Stop Writing"

-"A Near Miss": on a good movie missing because it thinks religion isn't a legitimate part of culture.

-"On The Theology of Sleep"

Family

-"Laws of Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father": If you are a parent who knows what the King James version of the Old Testament sounds like, this will make you laugh.

Fiction

-"The Glamorous Life of the Writer": One of my favorite authors, Elizabeth Moon, tells it like it is.

-"Money and the Writer"

-"Misinterpretable Words": on living with a changing language (as we all do).

-"Why Do Books Written By Women Get Such Terrible Book Covers"

-"Understanding Shakespeare" - a lovely, annotated and connected digital library, so that you can research the research to your heart's delight.


Have a great weekend!

Peace of Christ to you,

Jessica Snell

sketching just for the fun of it

This summer, while I was on vacation, I started sketching again.

Sketching is one of those things that I'm not terribly good at, but that I very much enjoy. But in the busyness of life, it had kind of fallen by the wayside--and it was such a pleasure to take it up again! Here are a few of my efforts:

a practical sort of a heroine

I like the wistful feel of this profile

I think I need to do more of this. It feels good to do something artistic that I have no intention of ever making any money at--that is, there's something refreshing and renewing about doing something artistic for no other reason than that I really, really enjoy it.

(Yeah, I knit and crochet for the fun of it, too, but there I'm still getting a tangible, very usable object--socks, sweater, etc.--out of the process. So it doesn't seem quite the same. Maybe I need to knit more impractical things...)

Do you have hobby that's just a hobby? what is it? why do you love it?

Peace of Christ to you,

Jessica Snell

Weekend Link Round-up!

A bit of good reading from 'round the Web:

"The Courage to Rest":

When I began to try to live by the new, focused schedule, I found that more than anything it was an exercise in letting go of control. I understood on a visceral level why it’s monks and nuns who are known to have the most peaceful daily routines: because it requires great trust in God to walk away from your endless list of demands when there is still technically time to get a few more things done. It requires tremendous faith to rest.

"What’s Next on Sherlock? Steven Moffat Answers Our Lingering Questions About Season 3 ": For all my fellow fans. :)

"wordy wednesday: peanut sauce":  Yummmmm, I want to make this.

"New York Fugshion Week: Tadashi Shoji": This slideshow has so many things I want to wear. Especially the capes.

"Between Heaven and Earth": this analysis of the death of Absalom is just fascinating. (No, really, it is.)


Peace of Christ to you,
Jessica Snell