Tomorrow is the Winter Warmer so I’ll be quite busy all day. I’ve struggled more this week to get my reading done. The routine of waking up and getting started is a struggle to even get to my books. Cooking breakfast has become a priority, which is a great thing. I want to feed and…
Last week, I wrote kind of a summing up post. This week, I’ve simply copied my Substack ruminations. Do you have a preference? This was certainly faster, but less … contemplative of the week’s reading … tell me in the comments! I’ll probably do a mix based on how much time I have to pull…
I’m playing at Substack: I have no intention of abandoning ladydusk.com … I’ve had this blog for a very long time – whether on blogger or here on my own URL. I have a goal of writing here more frequently (not that 2025 has been a good indicator so far). But, so many people are…
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,…
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall My rating: 3 of 5 stars I really liked this at the beginning. He does a fine job with so many of the first chapters (through Western Europe) and showing the geography as being so integral to a culture and a…
I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting my book reviews here and not just at GoodReads. But perhaps that has been a mistake. So, I’m going to attempt to bring back that, er, feature. At least it’ll add content to the blog 😉 1984: New Classic Edition by George Orwell My rating: 4 of…
The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after year ! If the blossoms were liable to change — if they were to become capricious and irregular — they might excite more surprise, more curiosity, but we should love them less; they…
Walk is an interesting word for the year because it is ubiquitous. The idea of travel by foot is everywhere – both implied and spelled out – in the scriptures. It is also very both a metaphor as well as an action. As I’ve been reading, I’ve noticed so many ways we refer to the…
I was really excited to be making all of these connections early in the year and thinking through them – how the body should and should not be used. I was also excited to be “getting my steps” more regularly again. I felt like things were getting back on track.
Dr Gamble’s The Great Tradition is still influencing my reading. This year I read Great Pedagogical Essays by FVN Painter which is the anthology that inspired Dr. Gamble to his work. It was surprising to me how much overlap there was between the two; the first half (or so) was largely the same writers, starting…