“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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The Quote Is a Lie!
This post may contain affiliated links. I love C.S. Lewis. Lurve him. And I quote him incessantly — and misquote him apparently. This is one I’ve always believed was accurate. It sounds sort of like something he would say. Until you think about it for a minute and realize that new dreams and endeavors in […]
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Living a contented life
Today’s C.S. Lewis quote: The whole lesson of my life has been that no ‘methods of stimulation’ are of any lasting use. They are indeed like drugs—a stronger dose is needed each time and soon no possible dose is effective. We must not bother about thrills at all. Do the present duty—bear the present pain—enjoy […]
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Ideas for Wednesday Activities
“What I like doing best in Nothing.” “How do you do Nothing?” asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. “Well, it’s when people call out at you just as you’re going off to do it, What are you going to do, Christopher Robin, and you say, Oh, nothing, and then you go […]
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Baby steps to a commonplace books
Last fall, I decided I wanted to start a commonplace book. Very simply, a commonplace book is a place where you collect quotes, selections from books, poetry, etc. It’s a good way to keep and meditate on the wisdom we come across through our reading. George Washington’s “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior” is the […]
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Lewis on Letting Go
This post may contain affiliated links. This is a variation of a very popular C.S. Lewis quote. Lewis is, of course, highly quotable, but the context of the quotes is where the real meat lies. Lewis had an enormous correspondence, and one of his pen-pals was an American woman Mary Willis Shelburne. His letters to […]
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Terrible Tuesday: emphathizing with the Grinch
Not in feeling grinchy about Christmas but about its relentless approach, whether I’m ready or not. “He hadn’t stopped Christmas from coming, it came! Somehow or other… it came just the same.” Oh yeah, I feel that. Time’s-a-wasting links! This made me do a nerdy dance of joy: time capsule opened that was buried in […]
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You’ll never finish
And that’s okay. It’s to be expected, actually. C.S. Lewis wrote, “The second enemy is frustration–the feeling that we shall not have time to finish. If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest human life leaves a man, in any branch of learning, a beginner, I shall seem […]
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On the limits of my knowledge
A quote that has been rattling around in my brain from the Empty Shelf Challenge book I just reviewed. “We will just have to realize that ignorance will always be our lot and then get on with the task — often a joyful one — of learning what we can with the time and abilities […]
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Terrible Tuesday: 847 miles to Louisville
Traveling links! 1984 was a big year in cinematic history. I was 10, so I only saw Star Trek and Karate Kid. (Plus the movie we agreed to pretend didn’t happen: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.) Leawood, Kansas: on the front lines protecting the citizenry against 9-year-olds and their evil agenda of literacy […]
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Solitary musings on a Sunday
“No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as “what a man does with his solitude.” It was one of the Wesleys, I think, who said that the New Testament knows nothing of solitary religion. We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in […]
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