I already made plans with a friend (her idea) for The Odyssey! So excited. Yes, please share your thoughts on the album. “Dan” is the song currently playing in my head on a loop.
I’m looking forward to reading that piece on motherhood as a lifestyle choice, even though there’s a 99.5% chance that I won’t have kids of my own. I want to know how better to support my friends who are currently in those "trenches" – so thank you so much for passing this on.
Also, a big YES to hearing your thoughts on that Noah Kahan record! I know a handful of his songs, and like them, but would LOVE the chance to think through and enjoy good music with you!
Decades of conservatives (or orthodox Christians) being jackasses to poor mothers ("welfare queens" et al) is now coming to roost on the rest of everyone. Your rugged individualism you demanded is now yours in isolated motherhood. This is the spiritual and communal consequences of your own political and social successes. The chickens coming home to roost and all. Maybe showing backbone in your Not Woke Corporation would be an actual stand for motherhood. You only contribute to isolation and pain for mothers until you take that stand for poor women, immigrant women, and the burden of being mothers of color. Shame until then.
I would love a Devil Wears Prada 2 review! (Not that you already have a million things to do. But if you did decide to do one, I would read it. Ha,ha). Excited to see it, but will wait til it streams. Ha,ha. Also, are you planning to watch The Other Bennet Sister?
So looking forward to the new film, The Odyssey, which will be released this summer.
Will be leading a weekly group in June & July on The Hero’s Journey. We’ll recall the long travails of the mighty warrior’s storm-tossed journey, hampered by the whims of the gods and even his own flaws, in trying to reach home after 20 long years away.
We’ll contrast Odysseus’s limitations with cultivating St. Paul’s nine fruits of the spirit as a spiritual remedy to help one’s Christian character grow and discover the tools that will assist us, in one day reaching our true home at last.
Hoping it will be a journey of the heart as well as of the soul.
Please share your thoughts on the album. I'd love your take! I just finished Count of Monte Cristo. It was good, but I had forgotten whole characters and their arcs, so I kept being surprised. I wonder if some of the anti-child/parenthood fervor is partly due to backlash against evangelicalism/fundamentalism after the Vision Forum/Pearls/Duggar pick has been/keeps being exposed and some tradwife pushback. Culture does not like those extremes, so it is rejecting anything that looks like them. I dont know. Just a notion I thought of this week. That it may not actually be a rejection of children/mothers in general, but a way of rejecting the extremes.
I know that y=mx+b, but I don't remember which numbers go in which places. Thank goodness that my mom and sister are/were both math teachers!
I already made plans with a friend (her idea) for The Odyssey! So excited. Yes, please share your thoughts on the album. “Dan” is the song currently playing in my head on a loop.
That quote from your anti motherhood piece just 🔥🔥
I’m looking forward to reading that piece on motherhood as a lifestyle choice, even though there’s a 99.5% chance that I won’t have kids of my own. I want to know how better to support my friends who are currently in those "trenches" – so thank you so much for passing this on.
Also, a big YES to hearing your thoughts on that Noah Kahan record! I know a handful of his songs, and like them, but would LOVE the chance to think through and enjoy good music with you!
Decades of conservatives (or orthodox Christians) being jackasses to poor mothers ("welfare queens" et al) is now coming to roost on the rest of everyone. Your rugged individualism you demanded is now yours in isolated motherhood. This is the spiritual and communal consequences of your own political and social successes. The chickens coming home to roost and all. Maybe showing backbone in your Not Woke Corporation would be an actual stand for motherhood. You only contribute to isolation and pain for mothers until you take that stand for poor women, immigrant women, and the burden of being mothers of color. Shame until then.
Wondering if you are planning on watching The Other Bennet Sister, which has just had its US release on BritBox!
I would love a Devil Wears Prada 2 review! (Not that you already have a million things to do. But if you did decide to do one, I would read it. Ha,ha). Excited to see it, but will wait til it streams. Ha,ha. Also, are you planning to watch The Other Bennet Sister?
So looking forward to the new film, The Odyssey, which will be released this summer.
Will be leading a weekly group in June & July on The Hero’s Journey. We’ll recall the long travails of the mighty warrior’s storm-tossed journey, hampered by the whims of the gods and even his own flaws, in trying to reach home after 20 long years away.
We’ll contrast Odysseus’s limitations with cultivating St. Paul’s nine fruits of the spirit as a spiritual remedy to help one’s Christian character grow and discover the tools that will assist us, in one day reaching our true home at last.
Hoping it will be a journey of the heart as well as of the soul.
Please share your thoughts on the album. I'd love your take! I just finished Count of Monte Cristo. It was good, but I had forgotten whole characters and their arcs, so I kept being surprised. I wonder if some of the anti-child/parenthood fervor is partly due to backlash against evangelicalism/fundamentalism after the Vision Forum/Pearls/Duggar pick has been/keeps being exposed and some tradwife pushback. Culture does not like those extremes, so it is rejecting anything that looks like them. I dont know. Just a notion I thought of this week. That it may not actually be a rejection of children/mothers in general, but a way of rejecting the extremes.