As we brace for the coming storm and I hear the plows already roaring by up and down the street, this struck me as more than appropriate. The Illuminist by Jane Hirschfield Even in his glass cabin you can see the man driving the snowplow is...
Sunday Our car was dead and so were our brains. It didn’t occur to us to take Dom’s car and go to Mass in shifts. Oh well. We read the readings and then watched the papal Mass in Manila. Curious about all the images of the Baby Jesus, I did some...
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Nicole DuPlessis shared this poem from Love Poems From God by Daniel Ladinsky. It claims to be a translation of St Teresa of Avila, but it’s not quite clear if it’s really a translation or a poem inspired by her writings. Ladinsky seems...
Well here we are again, The Wine Dark Sea has a birthday. Now we are ten! Double digits. Aren’t we getting big? I feel like I should write some kind of fabulous retrospective but I find that I’ve already done a few of those. When we were...
Sunday Bedtime stories, a story from a book of Indian mythology. Arjuna and Krishna and a battle. Monday Hard time getting started. Bella did two pages of math, me reading the questions and writing down the answers. That’s it. She never did get back...
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or I want to run away to Mansfield Park Last night when I read this passage in which Fanny, having been sent down in disgrace to stay with her family in Portsmouth to teach her the error of her ways, reminisces on the glories of Mansfield I realized...
Last week we took a break from school work, that is no reading, writing, math. But plenty of read alouds and other educational stuff. We watched Much Ado about Nothing, which Bella got fro Christmas. And episodes of Blue Planet. Notable books...
Sunday morning on our way to Mass Dom commented on the sign at the corner pharmacy advertising Valentines Day merchandise, wondering if people really buy Valentines stuff this far in advance of the holiday. That got us talking about all these...
