Meghan, Vicar’s Consort ⚓️

Christian wife & mission partner to @GodRemembrancer. Mother to two little Anglicans here and 7 we’ll see again one day. #Ambleside #CharlotteMason @1662pod

[Meghan, Vicar’s Consort ⚓️ @MeghanTarsitano]

From Bp. J.C. Ryle’s opening chapter of Stories for Boys and Girls based on Zechariah 8:5, “The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing.”

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@WSJ Super excited for it. Hoping the lewd commercial problem is fixed so my children can enjoy this American tradition with us.

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@IVMiles Thanks for this; it’s now stuck in my head and I’m going to have to try very hard not to hum it at my very teetotaller-heavy folk dance lessons tonight.

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@sb4809 @littlebayschool I’ll second this. There are always some misses and I don’t always read the ones heavily geared toward RCs, but it’s been great overall and has helped get me reading more again. The best thing is the books are preselected, so no one gets offended if you don’t like the book.

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@AnneOfTheBooks That book is fantastic. One of the best things about Ambleside is the books are ones you want to keep and re-read many times.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[Meghan, Vicar’s Consort ⚓️ @MeghanTarsitano]

I highly recommend Pyle’s Robin Hood for kids for all the usual reasons but also for the pure amusement of hearing one’s children naturally trade barbs such as “Well boasted, fair infant!” And a frequent occurrence of “Sweet chuck!”

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@littlebayschool Double-sided, body/clothing tape is so handy to keep.

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@MESabo86 @RolandGunnTN We love this series. We’ve done the audiobooks many times and the reader really does an admirable job of a Welsh accent.

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@IVMiles So, not The Leopard?

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@BMcGrewvy My understanding was they cast her and by the time shooting began she was actually pregnant, so they just went with it. It’s a little irritating but she is such a good actress I can see not switching to someone else.

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@SherriKEdman Holy cow. I’d love that.

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@RachelReneeRee1 Love this. I’ve endeavored to makee sure Madeline owns the books she loves best. She reads them over and over. Library books are great; however, there is a bond between a girl and her own copy. And the opportunity to return again and again.

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

We love how you are fighting for kids, @TimTebow.

But you are committing a base-rate fallacy, confusing raw numbers with risk. “Dads” (which you often distinguish from stepfathers) appear in more abuse cases largely because they live with far more children. But when you compare rates rather than totals, the most dangerous adults in the home are consistently *unrelated* men. That is measurable when it comes to sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, as well as the dramatically higher rates of child filicide by beatings (120x) at the hands of stepfather's and mother's boyfriend

That reality is so widely recognized that the presence of a cohabiting, unrelated man is sometimes seen as a *predictor* for abuse. No researcher would say the same thing about biological fathers. Rather, their presence is associated with lower overall levels of risk.

You are sending the message that biological fathers are dangerous when, in fact, the exact opposite trend shows up in the data. Statistically, a child’s own father is the safest man in their life.

We want your message and ministry to go far. You are doing heroic work by drawing attention to abuse that too many people ignore. But the way this is being communicated reinforces a dangerous fallacy- that a child’s own father is just as, or even more, dangerous than other men.

That framing suggests it is inconsequential (or even beneficial) for a mother to leave a non-abusive father and move in with someone else. Or that she can go to a sperm bank and deliberately create a fatherless child because biology is irrelevant to a child’s well-being. Or that single motherhood is no serious concern because fathers are presumed to be such a danger.

Biological fathers do sometimes offend. We have just never found any other household configuration that protects children better than their own married mother and father raising them together.

If we really want to protect children, we need to get this right.

[Meghan, Vicar’s Consort ⚓️ @MeghanTarsitano]

@NoblestCalling There aren’t a ton of good illustrators from any era. As in any art, excellence is rare. Sophie Blackhall is another stupendous modern illustrator. The Fan Brothers also come to mind.

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@SherriKEdman Love ol’ Henrietta. OIS is my favorite though, so far.

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@SherriKEdman I so agree! I re-read it recently and that part really stood out for me.

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@monkofjustice It’s a favorite of mine too. Love to give it as gifts to children and adults too.

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@owroot It’s the best.

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Absolutely.

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

🧵1/14 The systematic psychiatric drugging of women is part of a larger antihuman agenda. Targeting the very qualities that sustain life itself: female sensitivity, empathy, and emotional intelligence.
And we're calling it "mental health treatment."