Links/Resources Mentioned This Episode:
- After-School Restraint Collapse
- Unruffled (Janet Lansbury’s parenting podcast)
- Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life
- Favorite quote: “Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points, the life of the world beautiful? Everything has its wonders–even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein, to be content. Sometimes it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond, there is light and music and sweet companionship, but I may not enter. Fate, silence, pitiless, bars the way. Feign would I question his imperious decree. For my heart is still undisciplined and passionate. But my tongue will not utter the bitter, futile words that rise to my lips. And they fall back into my heart like unshed tears. Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘There is joy in self-forgetfulness.’ So, I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun. The music in others’ ears my symphony. The smile on others’ lips my happiness.”
- Anne Lamott’s Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair
- Favorite quote: “This is all that restoration requires most of the time: that one person not give up. For instance, when I was in school, there were a few teachers along the way who must have seen in me a hummingbird of charming achievement–all eyes, bird bones, frizzly hair, and a desperation to please and impress. They knew that there was power and beauty deep inside me, but that I was afraid of this, and I was in fragments. Men and women alike, old and new at teaching, were like aunties or grandparents in their firm patience with me, in their conviction of my worth. They had a divine curiosity about me. ‘Hey, who’s in there? Are you willing to talk straight and find out who you actually are, if I keep you company? Do you want to make friends with your heart? Here, start with this poem.’ This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be–people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.”
- Add me on Goodreads to start swapping book titles!
- HOUZZ
- Theology of Home
- Fountains of Carrots Episode 123: Bringing Beauty to the World Through the Beauty of Home
- Millet’s The Angelus
Join the Conversation!
- Is your house experiencing after school restraint collapse 2.0? What’s easing the transition back to school?
- What are you reading lately?
- How do you track what you’ve read and what you want to read?
- Tasteful religious art–where do I go to find it?
- Do you have a tip for a way to make specific areas of your home more functional for family life?
- Lastly, go and find a copy of Holly Pierlot’s A Mother’s Rule of Life so that we can do a deep dive on the book next week!
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