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Oh heck....Where the Red Fern Grows scarred me for life! (and that was the book, not the movie). I have forbidden my children to read it, lol.
I never read the book. I didn't want to after the movie made me cry against my will around 10yo.
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I second Where the Red Fern Grows. Also The Little Princess.
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They have it! It's English Leather! Lol. Can't believe it's still available. Thanks, PM!
Hearing everyone's good memories is so much fun! Thanks to all who've posted!
Dh wore that scent when we were dating. 😊
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I'm about halfway through The Nordic Theory of Everything. It is fascinating, but I'm slowing down a bit, so I took periodic breaks to read two juvenile books with prime numbers. They are thrift store finds I hadn't read that had been hanging around the house for a while. The first was The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story by Sid Fleichmann. It actually was more of a time travel story than a ghost story and was just okay, but I imagine young readers might like it. The second book was The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson. It was over 200 pages, lol. This story was much more engaging and a bit reminiscent of Harry Potter.
Yesterday I started Houses of Stone by Barbara Michaels, aka Elizabeth Peters. She is my current author pick for a bit of relatively fluffy reading that is intelligent and adult. Lo and behold, this particular story delves into a discussion of women authors over the last couple hundred years! The story swings around a mysterious early American manuscript authored by an unknown woman.
The main character discusses with her favorite bookseller how modern readers are not affected by subtle psychological horror of the past. "They have become too jaded--too many chainsaws, too many decomposing corpses. And few comprehend that mental torture is the worst off all--the constriction of hope and ambition." "But that's what women's writing is all about," Karen said."That's the theme of Ismene's poem. 'They have shut me in houses of stone.' She wasn't talking about a physical prison."
Check out this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne that was the headpiece of chapter two: "All women, as authors, are feeble and tiresome. I wish they were forbidden to write, on pain of having their faces deeply scarified with an oyster shell." 😳
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My father's mother used Cashmere Bouquet. My mother's mother's house also smelled like moth balls.
Lovely smells from my past: mimosa trees in Puerto Rico, night blooming Jasmine outside my bedroom window in Florida, wood burning pizza ovens in Sicily, that kind of cool wet salty fishy smell on a pier at night.
I have hundreds of fond smell memories.
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Could it be a friend has arranged to send you or your dh a mystery as a unique gift? I heard about this kind of thing a few months ago.
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They are often discounted around holidays that require men to dress up like Christmas and Easter.
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I'm not caught up on this thread because my 3 y/o is crawling on me, but I've often thought that this song is almost a creed for the nonreligious.
What is the name of the song? I can't open the link on my tablet. Thanks.
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Can Westerns be from the 1800's? I was wondering if Roughing It by Mark Twain would count. I haven't read it yet and would like too.
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I read The DaVinci Code because one of my teens was reading it and I wanted to be informed. I'm proud to say I've never touched a Twilight book. This is an advantage to having four boys, they were all appalled at the thought.
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About the rest of what religion provides, I think there needs to be work on secular rituals surrounding death for those that need a feeling of tying up the loose threads, celebrating what was, mourning what no longer will be, and creating a satisfactory ending with a show of good will toward those who remain behind. If it is desired.
But, I don't believe that the popular religious stance that I see toward death is at all beneficial. The trend is to assume everyone who dies becomes some sort of Angel who watches over you. I see people having real difficulty moving on with their lives and obsessing over rituals to communicate their love to the dead and trying to find evidence of the dead's continued love for them. It seems unhealthy to me.
I think those with social instincts do need to be more creative to find an outlet if they are not religious, but I think they need not despair. There are plenty of civic and volunteer opportunities, local special interest clubs, amateur theater and choral groups, etc. Of course, they may not have that lofty feeling of grand overarching purpose, but I think they do as much good, if not more, than many churches.
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About group sings, if you live in the US it might not be too difficult to find them. In our area, it is starting to become popular to have sing-a- long experiences to classic musical movies or theater productions. There are also singing folk festivals, usually found in mountainous areas, lol. Try googling for your area.
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I finished Prague Winter and A Christmas Party, both good in their own ways. Today, I started The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen, a non-fiction recommended to me by my librarian/friend. It will count for my first bingo square this year.
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Dressing your truth is loosely based on personality with a kind of new agey doctrine about "energy" and "movement." They try to factor in physical attributes as well, which in my opinion is often conflicting. It definitely does not work for everyone, but they have enough tips to make a lot of people feel put together and happy with their style.
I went through a stage where I was trying to find my style/colors and searched the web for every kind of style assessment I could find. Nothing was obviously cut and dry for me. So I created my own particular style out of a combination of different assessments and my personal likes and dislikes.
For color analysis, I came up with soft autumn, soft summer, and soft winter. I realized that my skin, hair and eyes are neutral, not warm or cool, and medium, not dark or light. That was aggravating. Then I found that there are some color analyses that have a category that is just called " soft." I ended up choosing a main palette of medium charcoal grey, navy blue, teals and blue/greens, and berries, with a soft white or ivory. However, in autumn I have fun going chocolate brown, olive, and rusty orange for a few months.
I do gravitate toward the type 2 in DYT, but their colors are too muted for me and I am not fond of drapey ruffles of scarves. I have an almost equal tendency toward the type 4 personality, but I hate black, the colors are too harsh for me, and I don't care for stiff or crisp. Lol. I prefer an in between style of softly structured but casual.
The most helpful advice I got from DYT is to pay attention to 1. When you get compliments that say *you* look great, not your clothes. 2. When you feel very comfortable and appropriate in what you are wearing. 3. When you find yourself gravitating to a certain outfit in your closet or ignoring certain other clothes that you own. Ask yourself why, and what is it about those things that makes you like them or not. If something makes you feel awkward, it's probably not right for you. Plus, if possible, try to only buy what you love. Get rid of stuff you don't wear because it doesn't work for you.
It also helps to write down what your personal preferences are in color, fabrics, patterns, and styles on a small card as a reminder when you go shopping. That doesn't mean you can't be adventurous if you want, but you will have better luck
finding something that works well with the rest of your wardrobe.
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I disagree. It sounds like everyone felt sick then everyone got better. The pukers want their suffering to be recognized as superior and want to discount the experience of those with stronger stomachs. I'll bet everyone had the same virus but severity of symptoms varied widely.
They most definitely wanted to discount the experience of those with stronger stomachs. Puking your guts out for twelve hours, with subsequent extreme weakness, is in no way an equal experience to only a very mild nausea for a couple of hours. But I wouldn't call it superior. ðŸ˜
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Five, but three had inferior immune systems and should be mad at that and not their heartier family members. The pukers didn't win, they lost and shouldn't be angling for recognition.
It's the heartier family members who were angling for recognition. The pukers objected.
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But who is implying this? Didn't the other adults in the house do enough to help you out (in your mind)? If not, then talk about this in specific terms like an adult and not in terms of "showing sympathy". Otherwise you are just sounding a bit immature.
Yep. Even though I can tell you don't quite get it, I agree that I was being immature. Sometimes there is no energy left for maturity.
^ this
Also, a reminder that after norovirus, you are shedding the virus and contagious for up to two weeks (maybe even longer?), even if you are feeling better.
Ack! Do you realize how impossible it is to keep from contaminating people for two weeks?
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Just like an abusive spouse, lovely.
Well, not by ancient middle eastern standards. The bride was chosen by the groom and had nothing to say about it. She was obliged to be grateful for his favor. Likewise, yahweh tells the Israelites he has chosen them, even though they didn't ask to be chosen. They should be grateful. He is their God so they must be faithful to him or incur his wrath.
The Old Testament and archaeology is full of hints and evidence that the israelites were not monotheists from their earliest history. They don't seem to really settle down into the actual practice of monotheism until after the return from exile in Persia. I'm guessing the priests, who had a vested interest, came up with this kind of terminology to guilt the Israelites into adhering to a national/religious identity.
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And that sounds so bizarre and contradictory to me.
To me he sounds very much like other ancient gods, having human attributes, but with an advantage of power and immortality.
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See, I sympathize with the pukers who don't feel that the non-pukers earned the right to sympathy. Puking is my worst nightmare. If I have been puking and caring for pukers, the non-pukers better be expressing gratitude and sympathy. I don't care if your stomach was a little "off" -- if you didn't have chunks coming through your nose, you don't get a I-survived-the-stomach-bug T-shirt.
Call me petty. I don't care. ;)
You understand. 💛
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You seem to know a lot about this. What is with the comments I've heard from some Christians regarding their god being a jealous god? Jealousy strikes me as a pretty odd characteristic given the other traits he is said to have.
The bible actually says yahweh is a jealous God, more than once. The metaphor is that he has a relationship with his people that is like that of a husband and wife. (His people being Israelites in the Old Testament and believers of christ in the new) If they leave him or follow other gods, they are wicked and committing " adultery." Then he becomes jealous and sometimes even enraged.
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All five were sick, but with varying degrees of pukishness.
It cracks me up that others are irritated by the lack of puking and subsequent diminished sympathy. I would be THRILLED if not every member of my household vomited.
In general though, I'm not the type that likes or needs sympathy when I'm unwell. Just leave me alone in my room and I'll emerge when I'm better.
Actually it was the implication that the non-pukers, who experienced nothing more than a feeling of slight indigestion, were just as deserving of sympathy that irritated the others, not the sympathy level that they recieved. Plus, the person who was taking care of the pukers in spite of her own pukiness had used up all her sympathy, and still did the laundry and dishes and disinfecting that was not optional before the non-pukers got home and relaxed. I guess you'd have to be in the other person's shoes to get it.
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I hope this is jokingly meant. Whether or not a person vomits does nothing to indicate their level of sympathy.
Actually, this whole thread is slightly tongue in cheek. (Slightly). Yeah, there are definitely other ways to indicate ones level of sympathy or lack thereof. Those other ways may have something to do with a state of mind from which I am recovering, now that things are getting back to normal.
For Fun: Homeschool Things You Just Don't Get (no hate)
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Things I bought/tried but dropped:
Konos and Sonlight, kept a lot of the books. Co-ops, Latin, and Formal Logic. Textbooks in elementary, eased into them in middle school, starting with science. I adapted the four year history cycle to three years and every fourth year we do world geography/world religions. I use lots of books, few projects.
Math:
*All math manipulatives except base ten blocks and wrap-ups. Including: c rods, fraction tiles, gram/centimeter cubes (These still get used as building blocks, never were used for math or science.), and other things long forgotten.
*Saxon math, Boxed math work books, LOF, Math mammoth.
I also don't do crafty stuff or science experiments in the younger grades. I don't get giving elementary aged kids grades on their work. I just make sure they are progressing at a steady clip and review/correct when needed. I even avoid grading in middle school years.
I don't get fancy, expensive, time consuming, reading programs. I did one for the first kid but the rest learned well on 100 Easy lessons plus phonics and sight word flash cards. Also, they read something aloud to me every school day through 3rd grade. One of my kids balked at 100 easy lessons because he wanted to read what his siblings were reading right away. So, we read our way through Harry Potter and the Sorceror's stone, sounding out one word at a time, one sentence at a time.
I also don't do detailed daily lesson plans. At the beginning of the year I decide how much of each subject needs to be done each week to finish by the end of the school year, allowing for sick days, vacations and unexpected days off. Each kid gets a general weekly schedule and book/ material lists, I provide guidance as needed. It works for us.