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Five for Friday
Apr. 3rd, 2020 09:22 pm1. ( homeschooling )
2. Emma bought a bracelet making kit, and so everyone in the house has new bracelets to wear (including several of Fiona's stuffed animals). Mine says Bossy (at my request; not an indictment by the offspring); Emma's says bimbo (which, okay, whatever LOL); Fiona's says her name; Josh's says Billiam (which has been what he names the characters he plays in all video games for the last twenty years IDK why).
3. The last time Josh had to go the grocery store was on March 31st; he also bought a printer/scanner combo, and we got it set up this morning. I am so relieved. That was going to be an issue eventually.
4.
Poetry as Prayer: Emily Dickenson by John Delli-Carpini
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The handful of Dickinson poems I read in high school didn't wow me, and I never had to read any in college, so I've just assumed most of my adult life that I didn't care for Dickinson much.
I got this book almost twenty years ago from my in-laws, and I never read it. I think I was not only disinterested in Dickinson but worried that the religious content would be too overt. I was wrong on both counts.
The author is a Catholic priest, and that certainly informs his writing, but he talks about God in very general terms and mentions mosques and synagogues as sites of prayer, so it reads to me as being very pan-religious. Considering everything that's going on right now, I actually found reading this book more than a little comforting. A lot of it is about being intentional in existence and observing nature and the value of doubt and questioning.
And now I know that I'd like to read Dickinson!
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5. ( speculation about the effects of COVID-19 on higher education )
2. Emma bought a bracelet making kit, and so everyone in the house has new bracelets to wear (including several of Fiona's stuffed animals). Mine says Bossy (at my request; not an indictment by the offspring); Emma's says bimbo (which, okay, whatever LOL); Fiona's says her name; Josh's says Billiam (which has been what he names the characters he plays in all video games for the last twenty years IDK why).
3. The last time Josh had to go the grocery store was on March 31st; he also bought a printer/scanner combo, and we got it set up this morning. I am so relieved. That was going to be an issue eventually.
4.
Poetry as Prayer: Emily Dickenson by John Delli-CarpiniMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The handful of Dickinson poems I read in high school didn't wow me, and I never had to read any in college, so I've just assumed most of my adult life that I didn't care for Dickinson much.
I got this book almost twenty years ago from my in-laws, and I never read it. I think I was not only disinterested in Dickinson but worried that the religious content would be too overt. I was wrong on both counts.
The author is a Catholic priest, and that certainly informs his writing, but he talks about God in very general terms and mentions mosques and synagogues as sites of prayer, so it reads to me as being very pan-religious. Considering everything that's going on right now, I actually found reading this book more than a little comforting. A lot of it is about being intentional in existence and observing nature and the value of doubt and questioning.
And now I know that I'd like to read Dickinson!
View all my reviews
5. ( speculation about the effects of COVID-19 on higher education )
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