Little Nyssa
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We have family photos of a kindergarten graduation from the 1940s. It's really cute.
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I think you're right on the timing, Ellie. I didn't graduate from *anything* until high school. My younger brother, who is several years behind me and went through most of his schooling in the late 80's and 90's, graduated from *everything* - kindy, elementary school, and middle school.
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I have been there too! What I recommend is first taking a little time regularly just to do nothing at all, alone, with no pressure and no expectations. Say go out for coffee all by yourself every week. Just sit. Remember who you are. What you want to do will become clear to you. You could bring a book or newspaper or notebook.
I wouldn't dive into a new project immediately since it could turn out to be just more work.
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...the U.S. can, and must, stand up...
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Jane, the Cocktail Party is based on Euripides? I will have to check that out! I'm still working on the Waste Land.
I am reading a biography of Louisa May Alcott, by Harriet Reisen. It's very good. Reisen's style is a bit quirky but she has done a tremendous lot of research. I am interested in the question of an author's moral point of view and how it appears consciously or unconsciously in their work, so I want to know all about Alcott and the two types of literature she wrote and why.
While reading about the Alcott family, I am unpleasantly reminded of some families we've discussed on the WTM, who have been in the news lately, who live in wilful poverty in thrall to some kind of ideals which are not clear to anyone and which prevent them from providing proper care and food and shelter for their children. :(
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I am working away on The Waste Land, still.
I really hated the Cider House Rules, too, for a very specific reason: I worked as a CNM for many years, and people who do OBGYN just don't talk about it in the way he does. I wondered if he did any kind of research or if he invented his character's experiences. For example, a woman's c----x does not look like a cherry lifesaver. It just doesn't! Who does the author think he is??? Sorry if that's gross. But I dislike an author who pretends to know about something and he really doesn't. Blech!!
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Reminds me of.... "This one has eleven."
That would be 110% right?
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Shine a hair dryer on it. The wax will melt and you can wipe it out.
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If the person was in enough trouble, I would help. I think for each of us, the amount of what we consider enough trouble would be different. And, I have heard of cases where people became surprisingly sweet in old age. I suppose it is unusual though.
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The link up posted upthread about ATI Russia states that it was in 1991, not the 1970s. Much easier to understand, since after the fall of communism there was a lot of chaos and people were looking to the West for possibilities.
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If you believe that the Christian life is one of continual repentance and spiritual growth, then honesty is not so much a problem.
If you believe that you were saved once for all when you made a profession of faith, then any admission of present sin would be very threatening to your faith and even to the foundations of your personality and view of the world. You might feel so threatened that you have to hold on so tightly.
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I remember feeling pressure to be seen as a perfect person so I could be a good witness for Jesus Christ. Then I realized I would be a much better witness if I face my problems/failures/sins bravely and honestly.
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You forgot it- but did you know where it was? That's the main thing, as in: That's a mom who REALLY KNOWS where her towel is.
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The Secret Adversary is IMHO Agatha Christie's best book! I love the adventure and the love story. :)
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Thank you for all you do!
One question- do you often feel that you have to advocate for the kids with CPS? I knew a foster mom who felt that CPS was dragging its feet on getting the family reunited in a particular case and she took the initiative to push things along and the case was resolved quickly after that.
Also, it seemed in that case that CPS and the SWs wanted the foster mom to keep a relationship with the kids & parents after the reunification. But the bio parents did not want that at all-- they wanted that whole episode to be over. They felt ashamed. Do you ever have a relationship with the kids and parents after the kids leave your care? Or is it supposed to be a clean break? Can you say hello to them if you see them on the street?
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Idnib, what a great app! I am just using a volume of his Collected Works from the library-- but I was thinking of getting something I could buy & write notes on. That app has a wealth of info, and I have to say that hearing a recording of Prufrock as a teen really made it accessible for me.
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I would have been very put off too. That said, the principal at our PS is much like her, yet the individual teachers have been great and all my concerns have been addressed by them, not by her.
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I don't think that education has to do with abuse of spiritual power. The temptation to use spiritual power is very attractive and compelling no matter what kind of church you are a pastor of, or how you became a leader.
You might think that pride in your educational attainments might lead you to become a tyrant, but on the other hand higher education is supposed to also teach people to be reflective and self-examining and also to understand someone else's point of view.
I think the antidote is humility, and where do you learn or teach that? Self-examination might lead to it, or a deep faith, but Education or lack thereof isn't a guarantee either way.
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I love, love, love GKC!
This week I am reading T.S.Eliot. I enjoyed rereading Prufrock and the poems in that group. I could not at all get into Murder in the Cathedral, but the play The Cocktail Party was interesting and a little weird. I enjoyed it but I'm not sure what to make of it!
Then I read up on his life and his first wife Vivian. How disturbing and sad. Must a poet have a "muse" who upsets them and makes them suffer and write great poetry? I am also thinking of Brodsky and his Marina, Nabokov and his lost Russia, etc.
I will try the Wasteland next.
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I told my DS that he could not go into the garage alone because it was full of weasels.
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I think the weirdest thing about our town's gifted orogram has been the leaders of it... Nice teachers, but with no grasp of what their task is or how to communicate with parents. They speak some kind of educational Newspeak that is almost complete gibberish.
I wish that when our kids had first qualified I had stopped the staff members and asked them to define exactly what they meant by all these unfamiliar terms, as soon as they first mentioned them.
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A friend of mine just got me to look at a situation like this from the other side. She asked me how I would feel if there were people in my community who disagreed with everything we were doing and were constantly giving silent criticism (or overt criticism)? She had experienced this, people who stayed out of obligation but never were happy campers and were always telling her what was wrong with the church. She said in this case she was glad when those folks moved on. She said it was much better for everyone.
I'm sure you are much kinder about your frustration. She just made me look at it from the other side, that's all.
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Palazzo pants: yeah or nay?
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Noooo! Just. No!