{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, like of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
This is the only kind of herbal tea I actually like: hibiscus flower tea, also called kerkaday in Arabic and Jamaica by Latinos. Have you ever had it? It’s most refreshing and very good for you. Egyptians like it with a little lime squeezed in it. It has one million vitamin Cs in it. #Science.
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If you are reading along with us this Lent, I hope you enjoyed this week’s discussion about play. If you are hungry for more, may I suggest this excellent and engaging entry by Fr. James Schall (comprising two essays: On the Meaning of Sport and What Say You of the Peacock’s Tail?). I think it will help illuminate the doing/being problem.
Maybe Shakespeare will be punnier after you read this? (He was super rude, apparently — more than we thought! Yikes.)
If you are in the market for a 12 passenger van, you need to read this, and it’s amusing even if you are not.
Did you know that there are four Marian hymns/chants for each season, to be sung after night prayers? This season (from Candlemas to Holy Week) the chant is Ave Regina Caelorum. It’s a simple tune and the words are so beautiful and serene. You can read about it and find the translation here. I bet your children learn it before you do!
(Something to point out to them about the way the monks sing: it’s very calm and relaxed without being lame; they sing with emphasis, the way you would speak, voice rising and falling; at the end of each phrase, the voice lets up a bit; the tone is never forced. Listen carefully for how they do it — it’s quite different from metrical singing that we usually do. Here’s a little primer on chant notation.)
I really enjoyed this post from Melissa Wiley. Good suggestions for things to spend your money on instead of curriculum. I love her choices, but– actually, get the stereo microscope I mention in this post (the link is towards the bottom), and for the reasons I suggest.
We had two {bits & pieces} featuring encomia of the late, lamented, mourned, Antonin Scalia. With due reverence, I’d like to direct you to this respectful and pointed critique of his jurisprudential theory. While Scalia’s strict “originalist” reading of the Constitution was a necessary corrective to the corrosive effects of the Court’s tendency to make law out of thin air or emanations of penumbrae, it lacked that vital connection to natural law and to the God of all law. “Who will undo the injustice, which at times we inflict by law upon ourselves? Increasingly we are becoming a nation lacking judgment. Who will decide aright for this land’s afflicted?” asks author Anthony Giambrone.
An aside: Do you know that to this day, the inscription over the door of City Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts (ground zero for secular atheism) reads:
God has given Commandments unto Men. From these Commandments Men have framed Laws by which to be governed. It is honorable and praiseworthy to faithfully serve the people by helping to administer these Laws. If the Laws are not enforced, the People are not well governed.
Today is the Feast of St. John of the Cross.
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