{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
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We have three winners of the wonderful Roman Hurko CD*! If you won, you have an email from me! If you didn’t win, do take advantage of the generous offer from the composer to purchase the CD for $15 plus shipping/handling (vs. the regular price of $20 plus shipping/handling). Just mention in your email** that you are a reader, and for the coming week, the discount will be applied.
*The album is also available on iTunes for $9.99. There’s no way to offer a discount there, but that’s more affordable, although you don’t get the beautiful printed matter, including translation. You can also buy the tracks separately.
**To purchase the CD, email carocpw at gmail dot com, where you will be directed to pay with Paypal and receive an invoice. The physical address is
CARO Productions, LLC
Ansonia Station
P.O. Box 230151
New York, NY
10023
10% of the purchase price will be donated to a fund for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster.
We are doing what we do and only now winding up our renovations of the Chief’s office/library, which of course brings us right up to Christmas decorating/crafting/baking time (not having been content with crowding our Thanksgiving prep). Here is a sneak peek!
Bridget has done yeoman’s work in there! I am trying to come in as the closer, putting in last-minute touch-ups and figuring out the new normal with all the books and, well, stuff.
So I am writing this in haste, so I can get to the boxes in the attic while attending to the boxes in the living room!
Buy an old house, they said.
It will be fun to DIY it, they said.
I’ll be falling in my grave just a little behind time, with paint under my fingernails, trying to tidy up as I go…
On to our links!
A fun article about when to put up and take down your Christmas tree from the Drinking with the Saints crew — their advice/experience exactly mirrors ours! With four December birthdays in our household, I just couldn’t leave the decorating to the last minute; but with a die-hard Advent-observer in our midst (the Chief), I couldn’t do it early, either. We do our best! How about you?
A wake-up call from the gentle and reasonable Prof. Peter Kreeft: Those who follow militant Islam and LGBT ideology are willing to die for what they believe. Are Christians?
A glimpse of a different era in the White House, when black cooks ruled and made what sounds to me like absolutely delicious food. I love the name Zephyr, and this talented chef for LBJ turns out to have been perhaps more famous than for her cooking.
You know I love John Taylor Gatto! The incisive Stella Morabito writes a marvelous appreciation of Gatto, who passed away this week, along with a strong critique of our educational system. For a good shot in the arm to do what it takes to give your children freedom to think and to learn good things, do read.
Monday was Solzhenitsyn’s 100th birthday (shared by Habou, although she’s not that old yet!). I think that some have learned of the great man’s writing from Jordan Peterson, but you owe it to yourself to read this article (and Solzhenitsyn’s works themselves). Peterson gets Solzhenitsyn’s witness to truth but does not understand that it is his faith that motivates and enlightens the Russian thinker. (If you have never read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (affiliate link) you must — and your teenagers must too. A tour de force that embeds the idea deep in your soul that each person must make the choice to do what is right or suffer moral death.)
From the archives:
There’s still time to make plum pudding if you want to.
And/or chocolate babka.
A little pep talk in the midst of “Christmas parties” and Advent preparations that may or may not be going the way you envisioned.
Today is the commemoration of St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli — and don’t miss the lovely little essay on the linked page about the “three nativities”!
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