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Archive: May 2014

Learning Notes

[Last week’s notes, not this week’s. I seem to be half a week behind.] Monday Baking day. I made scones for breakfast, baked a loaf of sourdough, and made lemon cupcakes for Sophie’s baptism day– belatedly since the acutual...

Bella’s Birthday

Yesterday my firstborn child turned 8. My heart is so full. I want to write volumes about my beloved daughter. But our day was very full and in the end I went to bed without even trying to start writing about it. (I don’t know why I...

Wearing the Cape: the Sequels

(Well, I started writing this last Friday but never got around to posting it, so all the time references to last week actually are about the week before last.) Last week I got the nasty stomach bug of doom that Ben had. I woke up on Wednesday with a...

What Exactly Is “Privilege”?

“Check Your Privilege” I suppose you may have already seen this piece by Tal Fortgang, a Princeton undergraduate: Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege. It is rather clumsy and reads like something written by a well...

The Language of Icons

I may or may not have shared this before, but this piece by Priest’s Wife reminded me about three articles I stumbled upon earlier this year from the Orthodox Arts Journal and as I can’t find my previous blog post, if there was one, I...

Down in Adoration Falling

“Look with kindness on those who do not recognize your presence, – reveal yourself to them, so that they may welcome you as Savior. Christ, our life, hear our prayer.” — from intercessions Evening Prayer on Monday, fourth week of...

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