KMD801

Christian wife married 22 years to high school sweetheart. Raising 3 daughters. Music educator, but current SAHM.

[Joy Marie Clarkson @joynessthebrave]

Klara and the Sun is one of my favorite books from the last few years. It is exquisitely precise, delicate, and pious. Choosing Taika Waititi, the director of Thor Ragnarok, to take it on is quite a choice!

[Barendina Smedley @fugitiveink]

Sadly we had to say goodbye to Biscuit this afternoon. She'd been with us since the spring of 2020. She was a delightful hen — full of character, funny & determined, a welcome companion and, I hope, a happy creature, too. It's good that she's beyond pain, but I'll miss her. Sleep well, little hen.

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

one day, your pet will be gone, and you’ll realize the luckiest part of your life was being loved by a tiny creature who thought you were home.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Unless I’m working in an ER, working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there’s no reason I should be expected to “thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.” Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.

[KMD801 @KMD801]

@michelle_gibby @OrevaZSN The book “teach like your hair is on fire” 👀

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

No. You didn’t read because you were dissociating or had ADHD; you read because books are a wonderful thing that enriched your life. Finding twisted motives for life’s greatest pleasures will make you miserable. We need to quit pathologizing the things that bring us joy.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

Most destruction in the life of a woman comes from having the wrong friends, the wrong influences, and taking the wrong advice.

Having good, and moral friends will shape your life more than any career, any job, any hobby.

A single bad friend can cause you years of pain. A friend who tells you should choose freedom over responsibility, resentment over forgiveness, instant gratification over delayed pleasure, this worldly common advice feels empowering for five minutes and then costs you five years of wondering why every step forward feels like two steps back.

It is not worth it.

Good, moral, grounded women will strengthen you, they will give you peace and help you grow in ways you did not know possible. Good people make you good, and the inverse is also true.

Choose your influences with the same mindset you choose a husband, because their impact on your life is not small, everyone you allow in is someone who will impact you, and you need to keep that in mind

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

Finally wrapped up the selection of images for The Heavens Declare - 125 gorgeous displays of God's handiwork in the universe.

This was the hardest part of the project. When it comes to astronomical images, there's an embarrassment of riches: millions of images to choose from. Out of those, I had to select less than a fraction of a percent to be in my book. But after nearly short-circuiting my brain, I did it.

I think y'all will love these images as much as I do. Here's a small sample of what will be in my book.

[KMD801 @KMD801]

@homemakinghunny Advantages to our public: consistent progress monitoring, following grade level standards, keeping a daily schedule and having to get up and dressed daily. Being accountable. Low risk of academic neglect. Classroom environment with procedures, words on the wall, discussion, etc.

[KMD801 @KMD801]

@homemakinghunny I homeschooled 3 during Covid & ended up at the heart hospital ER by April. They made significant gains- I loved a lot of it. However, they do very well in our impoverished area public school. Be intentional w their time @home if you send them to PS and all will be well.

[KMD801 @KMD801]

@SketchesbyBoze Think of the great authors, composers, and artists who never knew they would be famous. 🥺

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

How can you justify reading or creating art when the world is falling apart?

C.S. Lewis asked this question in a sermon called "Learning in Wartime," delivered to university students while Germans were dropping bombs on London.

His first point is crucial:

"The war creates absolutely no new situation; it simply aggravates the permanent situation."

The belief that study belongs only to peacetime is a false illusion born of modern comfort. Our greatest thinkers pursued Beauty in times of war.

Moreover, our literary tradition itself accepts war as an inescapable truth of reality:

The Iliad, Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus — every founding myth of the Western Tradition wrestles with war, violence, and even fratricide.

Lewis reminds us that civilization was not built by scholars in times of peace; rather, it was built by courageous souls who sought virtue in the face of death. Abandoning study leads to grave consequences for our culture:

"If you don't read good books, you will read bad ones. If you don't go on thinking rationally, you will think irrationally. If you reject aesthetic satisfactions, you will fall into sensual satisfactions."

The fact is, culture is never neutral. If we abandon the pursuit of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, our civilization ceases to be True, Beautiful, or even Good.

Lewis insists the intellectual life is itself a form of resistance:

"Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."

Reading then, is not just a leisurely pursuit in peacetime, nor is it an escape from the troubles of the world.

It's the very practice that makes civilization beautiful, and makes your own life meaningful and worth living.

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Why would I want AI when I can have Beethoven or Shakespeare or van Gogh who have plumbed the depths of human experience and brought back transcendence? True art nourishes the spirit and opens one up to oneself and the world.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Pope Leo writes, “The speed and ease with which answers or summaries can be obtained risk extinguishing the desire to ask questions.” Curiosity and the human hunger to learn are under attack. They are trying to build a world in which no one *wants* to know anything.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

My very personal list of ninety favorite books, as of about ten minutes ago. Middlemarch will almost certainly be near the top once I finish it.

[Dr. Ellen Walker @EllenFWalker]

Thinking about the gorgeous opening credits to Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry

[redpillbot @redpillb0t]

"By getting rid of paper archives and replacing them with digital archives, they can erase history. One day, you'll encounter the message "the page does not exist," and the next day, you'll see them deny that it ever really happened. " - Julian Assange

[Jacob Allee @jacob_allee]

Reading high quality literature to your kids is huge for increasing their vocabulary and even improving their own cadence and pitch when they read. I can always tell, when listening to my students read aloud, whose parents read to them extensively as a small child.

[Caitlin Francis @MrsCMFrancis]

The “must be nice” is a jealous, covetous attitude and you should kill that tendency in yourself whenever you find it

[Megha @megha_lilly]

Every single person has it in them to be a good husband/wife and to be a good parent. All that matters is whether they're willing to approach it with a humble heart rather than with pride and ego. This is not a "mental health" issue, this is a virtue issue.