(I know it’s not January, but I couldn’t resist posting this picture…)
Archive for December, 2008
Merry Christmas!
Posted in Personal on 25 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well …
Posted in Uncategorized on 21 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Caitlin’s off on her honeymoon. I’m off to Budapest. January will see a flurry of pictures, I’m sure. But for now, have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Glory in the grace of our incarnate Lord.
Love,
Rebecca
When God Became Small
Posted in Poetry on 15 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lightly as a falling star, immense, may you
drop into the body of the pure young girl like a seed
into its furrow, entering your narrow home under the shadow
of Gabriel’s feathers. May your flesh shape itself within her,
swelling her with shame and glory. May her belly grow
round as a small planet, a bowl of golden fruit.
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[Self]knowledge
Posted in Personal on 10 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Trains and buses come and go, as they will. When standing at a train station I am quite aware of my human powerlessness. I have no say when, or if “my” train will come. I just have to wait and be okay with whatever time it happens to show up.
I think this [...]
On classes … 320, 340
Posted in Personal, Teaching on 8 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I flipped back through some of my fall posts this evening (which unfortunately didn’t take very long), and noted that teaching seems to occupy the majority of my (meager) writing. This is appropriate, since it usually (excepting my closest friends) demands the majority of my hours and attention.
But, this fall (in addition to all-present [...]
Why aren’t more of us like H.L.?
Posted in Literary, Overheard on 7 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.”
[Harper Lee, from a 2006 letter to [...]
[Junior, educated, rich, kids] meet Boethius
Posted in Literary, Philosophy and Theology, Teaching, tagged boethius, christian martyrs, junior high, Teaching on 5 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This year I’ve been leading an after school honors reading group for some 7th and 8th graders; we began the year discussing Virgil’s Aeneid, and have now moved to Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. I have discovered that it is a difficult text to discuss with young people who haven’t really ever suffered.
So, yesterday, after [...]
december 4, evening
Posted in Uncategorized on 4 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
Caitlin takes a sip of spiked cider, and pronounces, with a shiver:
“I forget that people who like alcohol make drinks with alcohol with alcohol.”
Ms. Card, what should I read?
Posted in Literary, Teaching on 4 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the reasons I like teaching older elementary/junior high age students is that I love the challenge of finding them things to read (yes, at one point in my life my highest dream was to be a librarian). Here’s a sample from a “suggested reading list” project I worked on over Thanksgiving break [...]
Why are you laughing so hard, Ms. Card?
Posted in Overheard, Teaching on 4 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, during our grammar lesson, one of my students mis-read/pronounced “tidy” as “titty.” Self-control only reaches so deep, and it was several moments before I could teach with a straight face.
I told them I was laughing because “language is funny.”
Which, it is.
