{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
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I’ll do two catch-ups today — the garden and last week’s graduation!
Here’s a pic after a ton of work with everything just left out because I couldn’t find any minions to clean up after me — where are they??
Those five beds in the front of the photo have buckwheat growing in them. I’m starting to interplant my tender veggies — my hope is that the flowering buckwheat will attract predators of the bad bugs that harm them. It also adds a lot of good nutrients to the soil.
Graduation at Thomas More College is a splendid affair, even in the cold rain. It all began with thesis presentations by all the seniors on Friday, followed by an elegant meal under the tent. And yes, it was cold enough for my winter coat!
The next day there was a beautiful Mass under the tent, celebrated by Bishop Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska. The Schola provided the polyphony and chant (Bridget is the soprano on the end there).
If it looks like Bridget is crying her eyes out emotional, she is!
So, busy around here! On to our links!
If you are near Central Massachusetts (a quick hop from southern New Hampshire, Providence, Boston, or even Hartford!) come join us for John’s Open Art Studio day tomorrow! We’d love to meet you and show you around!
I had a little chat on Mater Dei Radio with Mary Harrell the other day for a quick 20 minutes, about The Little Oratory and various things you might find interesting.
Our friend Fr. Pokorsky on how we might find ourselves erased: Beware of the Beria Method.
Fr. Schall on What Teachers Mean — perhaps there is something here to give encouragement to the homeschooler with an inferiority complex, though Fr. Schall is mainly speaking about the awakening that ought to happen in college. I think the homeschooler is more free to connect one’s children to interesting people than the patrons of the local public school, at this point:
“But finding a good teacher, even if he is not in one’s own university or one’s own time, even if he is not really a professional “teacher,” is a great blessing. He can lead us to things that we otherwise would not have known or encountered. Both the teacher and the student are directed to something beyond themselves.”
Department of long articles about arcane subjects: Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia.
A meditation to take to prayer, perhaps: Pope Benedict’s Christmas greetings of 2010 — on subjectivity, objectivity, and conscience. Incredibly relevant today, despite not being exactly the correct season, liturgically speaking. “For [John Henry Newman], “conscience” means man’s capacity for truth: the capacity to recognize precisely in the decision-making areas of his life – religion and morals – a truth, the truth. At the same time, conscience – man’s capacity to recognize truth – thereby imposes on him the obligation to set out along the path towards truth, to seek it and to submit to it wherever he finds it.”
I don’t even know what to say about this article, other than I couldn’t figure out how to listen to the video (was that just me? Or there’s no audio? In a story about music?) but don’t tell me that we will forever be consigned to weakly crooning On Eagles’ Wings, because this is a story about baroque music in (literally) jungle cultures — “Here near the borders of Brazil and Paraguay, harpsichords and lutes can be found in the smallest villages. Luthiers have carved violins from local cedar for centuries.”
Before and After: a church gets renovated.
Great photos from this week, from The Week.
A happy feast day to all our Philips!! The Chief, Rosie’s Capt. P, and Pippo!! Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday, the one feast dedicated to a dogma, the One-in-Threeness of God!
From the archives:
It’s been in the news that Snapchat added a dark pornographic side to its site (and apparently took it away after protests) — but don’t think that protecting your children is a matter of deleting apps. It’s a way of life. I tried to outline how to live this way in my article about sex education.
Last week Deirdre wrote about how her family has joined us here at the Manse while her husband The Artist sets up shop. Although we still (still!! never done!!) have one more room to renovate up there, here is a little tour of the space (pre-move-in, obviously).
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