Superfood

  Wadsworth Farm , earlier today. We picked two gallons. Which – I have discovered this afternoon – is a lot.

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Revolution

I had wanted to read this for a while.  Got it sent to the nearest library branch; then forgot about it.  Saw it yesterday at another library branch. Checked it out; read it. Why did I want to read it? I’m not sure. It struck me there might be some points in common between the [...]

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“….great Eucharistic souls…”

Therefore, while the bodily food is assimilated by the body and contributes to its maintenance, the Eucharist is a different bread: we do not assimilate it, but it assimilates us to itself, so that we become conformed to Jesus Christ and members of his body, one with Him. ….  Thus the deep sense of social [...]

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Our work here is done

Once you have covered every inch of your own room with Legos and such… ….move on to the downstairs hallway. This was after they had spent many joyful minutes constructing some kind of slalom down the stairs, turning out the lights, and then video-ing each other sliding/bumping down the stairs holding a big round light in [...]

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Lawbreakers

 

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Go for the pizza stone…

…come away with the Star Wars cookie cutters Pretty nifty. (Williams-Sonoma. ) Sorry – we don’t do the frosting. (Speaking of food. The lemon-lime-mint sorbet was (is) astonishing. Very grown-up taste (like the rosemary cookies I made at Christmas.)  Made chocolate ice cream which was (at last) a success. Tonight I’m making the base for a [...]

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Summer

Still here. Lisa Hendey had a “rant” about summer enrichment. It’s here. I resonate with that.  Not that it’s much of a reach for me to do so.  I am fairly resolutely anti-activity anyway.  It’s that introvert personality that I’ve tried hard not to impose on my own children, being willing to let them do [...]

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Charlotte’s Weblog

Thanks to Owen Swain of Drawn to Catholicism who got it from Laughing Squid and kindly sent it to me!

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Dulce

I had almost forgotten I owned an ice-cream machine. A few days ago, though, I remembered and since then have determined that one of my summer projects (along with doing something about ten years’ worth of photographs – printed and on two computers) is to master sorbet and ice-cream. The first day, I used some watermelon [...]

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Lord, Teach Us

The intercessor does not make excuses for the sin of his people; he does not list presumed merits either of his people or of himself; rather, he appeals to the gratuitousness of God: a free God, who is total love, who never ceases to go in search of the one who has strayed, who always [...]

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