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Woman Holding A Balance
Between dark and light,Between this world and the next,Between maidenhood and motherhoodShe pauses, held in balanceLike the balance she holds. Her focus not the gold orThe weighing, but the justiceOf her scales, settl… -
Valkyrie and Leisure
Sobering describes my feelings after watching this movie with DH a couple of weeks ago and it reminded me of how ignorant I felt the day I graduated from college 31 years ago. I distinctly remember thinking how little … -
Leisure: Waiting for the Weekend
Waiting for the Weekend author Witold Rybczynski references philosopher Josef Pieper four times in this informative book about how people have spent their free/leisure time over the centuries. I was pleased to learn th… -
2 Days That Ruined Your Healthcare
Tonight ABC will broadcast an infomercial addressing the President's plan on healthcare. I'll be chiming in and commiserating with friends at Cindy's blog. Before hand though I just want to recommend a good book and gi… -
The Shoe Bird
Captivating on all fronts, The Shoe Bird is an entertaining and eductional way to spend an hour with a child or friend. This musical fable is based on an 1964 novella of the same name by Eudora Welty. Samuel Jones's a… -
Herdsman LPMcD
On my blog today I've highlighted a poem entitled The Calf Path by Sam Foss. It explains the dangers of blindly following precedent. But it also implies that there is a another way, a straighter path that when followed… -
Misery
Misery is the title of Wendell Berry's newest short story recently published in Shenandoah, Washington and Lee's literary magazine. In summary, the narrator describes the marriage of his grandparents, comparing and contr… -
Fine Art Friday:Cassatt
Young Woman Reading, 1876 Mary Stevenson Cassatt Oil on Canvas 13-3/4 x 10-1/2 in Museum of Fine Arts, BostonBetter to Receive is the… -
Hannah Coulter's Resting Together
Significant perhaps only to me, but I noted that Mrs Berry holds the copyright to this novel, unlike the bulk of the other Berry books. Furthermore, it didnt take me long to lose the male voice that I was hearing as I r… -
Hannah Coulter & Membership
Wondering about belonging to a family, Donna over at the online bookclub reading Wendell Berry's Hannah Coulter posited some good questions about feeling a part of an extended family: a *membership* if you will. And ho…
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