{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
That little enameled soap dish in my bathroom is wicked cute, huh? (Don’t forget to check out my new copper backsplash that I installed myself!)
I sort of assumed that it actually isn’t vintage (it appeared in my life, as so many things do, courtesy of Habou, whose studio is an a vast antiques/junk store), but apparently it is! So I better be careful of it. I was going to link to it so that you could get one too, but alas.
And why don’t they make it? If you had a company that made enamel things, wouldn’t you make that sweet little item?? Honestly. People.
What about this one?
You could put it up and install a hook above it — on that hook you could hang a little enamel cup. And then you’d just about be there, I think. This one is darling, though a bit pricey, I admit:
The soap dish also comes in green and other colors:
Anyway, just a thought of how to “get the look” if your vintage shops aren’t forthcoming. (The Amazon links in this post are affiliate links — thanks for shopping with us!)
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If I had a student in high school anymore, I would schedule a time to watch this hour-long interview by Bill Kristol with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It starts out rather slow, but little by little you get to know this impressive man, and by the second half, you’re hooked. Have a notebook handy to look up the books, Supreme Court decisions, and movies referenced in the conversation (I have a post about Killer Angels, a historical novel set at Gettysburg, mentioned towards the end of the video).
Love your neighbor enough to speak the truth — an astonishingly honest essay, directed at an Evangelical leader who has decided (just as it becomes extra comfortable to do so) that homosexuality is just fine — but it could apply to any situation in which the impetus to agree or to be silent is far stronger than that to speak the truth. Rosaria Butterfield is a woman who left a prestigious post, and a lifestyle as a lesbian that she was quite content with. Someone was brave enough to speak the truth to her, and now she returns the favor. (That last link may need to be clicked on more than once, but you can get to it eventually without subscribing, I’m pretty sure.)
Where’s the love for donkeys, asks the New York Times. Well, I love donkeys! Sometime I’ll take a picture of the ones who are my neighbors. They are so adorable.
The man who saved the papers of St. John of the Cross — well, this story is more fascinating than you might think. Roy Campbell was certainly larger than life. At first, C. S. Lewis didn’t like him, and then they became fast friends. I still remember that thrill of danger with something mysterious behind it, as of hidden goodness and power, when I first read the account of the meeting of the hobbits with Strider at the Inn at Bree. I think that there is practically no scene in all of literature that so combines all the marvelous elements that make a good story as that one. Well, who was Strider modeled after but Roy Campbell!
A very good piece about how to approach reading aloud to children, with application to many other things we do for their good. Maybe just enjoy…
Three doctors’ antidotes to social media — just some reflections on how these insightful men approached the search for meaning and connectedness; how these things relate to how we raise our children, and perhaps ourselves as well.
Why minds are not like computers, even if sometimes we talk as if they are.
From the archives:
Some thoughts on navigating organic/healthy/costly food.
I’m re-upping this (re-re-upping) because, timely: Mapping out the electoral college votes — do you or someone you love not quite get how the President is elected? What is this “electoral college” we sometimes hear tell about? Now is the moment to learn! (The comments are all good too.)
Is it scary to start a St. Greg’s Pocket? Now is the time — and how about starting with reading about marriage?
November is the month that Christians have traditionally remembered the dead. How do we do that? Lots of info here. And here is the doctrine of Purgatory, explained.
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