{bits & pieces}
Early distant warnings:
Well, this one is immediate: Tomorrow is Candlemas and also the beginning of the Seven Sunday’s of St. Joseph.
If I can figure out how to do it without too much time (since I’m still trying to get my book manuscript out the door), I’d like to do a Lenten reading on A Return to Modesty by Wendy Shalit.
If you think you’d be up for that, maybe start the process of getting a hold of the book. (affiliate link — probably also available at the library — and the new edition is apparently only different in that she added a foreword, so the first edition can work fine for our purposes I think).
On to decorating news flash: I have long been hunting for a pair of comfy chairs for this spot in my living room. Two weeks ago I found this one, just one, on facebook marketplace. The lovely lady who was selling it (her house is gorgeous) told me in response to the question “do you have another one” that if she had, she would keep them, and I quickly made the deal lest she change her mind anyway.
It was wicked cheap and sturdy and also reupholstered, which as thrifters know, upholstery is where great old furniture goes to die. Deirdre says the chair balances the piano, and maybe another chair is not needed.
Anyway, I love this chair and am super happy to have gotten it, and had to share!
Notes: Rug and piano from the Chief’s parents. Painting over mantel (partially obscured) by Habou (she also painted the thrifted magazine rack). Icon from Rosie and Philip from their Florence trip. Antlers found in the woods by the boys in days gone by. Curtains in dining room from World Market, wish they would have more in this vein. Yes, we need to paint this room and maybe in the process repair the hole in the plaster where the new thermostat got put in… five years ago.
bits & pieces
Progesterone can help with miscarriage.
Underground graffiti in Moscow — icons in the streets and abandoned buildings.
One minute (but watch to the end) — a beautiful film about marriage. I’m not crying, you’re crying. Iranian filmmakers are the best. I highly recommend Children of Heaven as well — and again, watch to the very end.
Jane Stannus: there is no Catholic feminism. A sober analysis of the inherent contradiction between the ideology of feminism and the truths of Christianity, and the implications for the future of the Church. So what is the vision for women? I am working on trying to articulate that, but truthfully, this whole blog is my answer…
from the archives:
February homeschool burnout avoidance.
Frugal soup (Lent is just around the corner!)
Living Lent with older children.
Auntie Therese’s advice for homeschooling moms.
liturgical year
Today we celebrate St. Bridget of Ireland!
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