{bits & pieces}
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We are not posting as much as we used to — the girls as I like to call them have lots of littles to chase after now, and I am writing my book. But do drop in on old posts!
This feature, {bits & pieces}, is my little way of having a conversation of sorts with you about what I’m reading and thinking about this week; sometimes I come across something online that I think I would have enjoyed using or discussing in my home school and/or at the dinner table. Feel free to join in the comments!
What’s on my mind right now is that I have been striving to learn to make sourdough bread from my own starter. If you look at my Instagram you can see some of my efforts.
I’ve been making pizza for 35 years or so, and I think I had a pretty good system going and some pretty good crust — until the sourdough thing… After weeks and weeks of fairly good bread but not great pizza, last night I just decided to make it my old way, no starter involved, and it was yummy. This loaf was from the dough that I had left after making three big pizzas.
Sometimes you just have to do what you do best! I’ll try again another time!
On to our links!
In upcoming events:
Are you nearby, or do you have a handy jet or something? Come to the Thomas More College Open House this weekend. Tomorrow (Sunday) evening, Phil and I will be at the banquet and poetry contest (always a blast, with our very own LMLD Bridget representing the senior class in the “serious” poem category). Then Monday there’s a great lineup of events. Do come!
Join me (and a nice line-up of speakers, including William Fahey, president of Thomas More College, speaking about the importance of a liberal arts education) on Friday for Refresh, which is “the Annual Midwinter Virtual Conference for you to get inspired – with 100% free content – provided online by Homeschool Connections to grow your ideas and grow your family’s strength.”
The schedule is in that link — see if something interests you! My episode is on at 12:45. Let me know in the comments here if there is anything in particular you’d love me to talk about!
Around the web:
Attention, gardeners! My grandmother would take her kitchen waste outside after she cleaned up in the evening and, digging a hole with a trowel, would bury it in her flower garden. Which was amazing. Here is a little article about this and other composting practices that seem pretty simple!
For the homeschool or for you: This article about the great physicist Richard Feynman’s approach to learning anything at all, the “notebook technique,” might spark something. I suggest just letting your young ‘un read it and mull it over during these dragging days of late winter. And maybe have an appealing stack of new notebooks on a shelf…
For your student who is doing macrobiology, an in-depth article about C. S. Lewis’ objections to the creative power of natural selection (in other words, evolution as an explanation for the origins of species, as a philosophy of man). His thoughts are in turn based on those of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and the objections have never been answered. (This is a long series, as a commenter below points out — the whole thing is linked in the last one, here.)
A great wedding sermon (scroll down for the full text).
Fr. Schall on basically how we come to know everything: A Short Catechesis. (For those of you who haven’t been introduced to him yet, Fr. Schall is a Jesuit priest who used to be a professor at Georgetown University, but don’t let that fool you. He is a veritable fount of wisdom, all delivered in a dryly witty and accessible way.)
If you are interested in what’s happening to free inquiry and truth in our universities, this book review sheds some light.
For the medieval buffs among us, one professor’s quest to reunite the separated pages of “book of hours” manuscripts. Apparently the individual pages net the owner more than the intact book, so, sadly, this is the new practice, to sell them off.
From the archives:
Do you need to get your meals under control, both organizationally and spending-wise? I have a complete plan for you. Here’s the theory (scroll down for all the posts) and here’s the worksheets to put it all into practice.
What we do “in here” — in the family, in the home, and why it matters for the wider world.
Today is the feast of the Seven Founders of the Order of Servites.
Don’t forget the Seven Sundays devotion to St. Joseph — it’s not too late to get to know this great saint in the weeks before his glorious feast!
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