Part of what I enjoyed about this past visit up north was a chance to observe my mom in the zone, managing and prepping food for all of us. While we did try to contribute in various ways, of course the management remains up to her. “Management” includes many trips: trips to the store, trips to the pantry, and, of course, trips to the extra refrigeration and freezer units out in the garage.
Sometimes you have to – quickly! – get a thing or two done between these trips.
And sometimes the cold is such that it's just not worth taking off your coat.
Even if your coat is a portable sleeping bag (totally worth it for the climate!).
This week's links!
- If you are like the folks at the LMLD homestead, you have been enjoying fresh, clean snow recently. Turns out that this presents an opportunity for Cleaning rugs with snow!
- While some folks out there want to relegate cursive to the dustbin (one of the threats of the Common Core), some of us are definitely willing to stand up for the practice of sophisticated handwriting. In addition to its aesthetic and practical applications, Learning Cursive is good for the Brain!
- In the miscellany department, we recommend Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions. We don't subscribe to his politics, but we do enjoy this list. And we're all for No. 27 as a rule.
- Rosie came across an Interview with Paul Sally, a recently deceased professor at University of Chicago (where Suki was a student not too long ago), and she passed it along for your perusal. Fans of mathematics will enjoy especially; mainly she just thought he sounded like an interesting character.
- My friend sent me an end-of-year update which included this quotation from Blessed John Henry Newman: “He has not created me for nothing. I shall do good, I shall do his work, I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of the truth in my own place– if I do but keep his commandments and serve him in my calling. Therefore, I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness will serve him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what he is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me- still He knows what he is about- and I trust Him.”
- From the archives: Let me tell you one thing about order.
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