The CCC

A productive morning: the last of the boxes upstairs unpacked, pictures hung in Lucy’s room, the curtain and curtain rod hung in our room (with a very clever improvised ribbon decoration, if I do say so myself).  And it follows on a productive week.  Most notably, I painted the kitchen (a sort of Tuscan orange, [...]

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And an unfinished parable

I am working on my final paper for class, and I realized that I had two perfect books to write it–books that bridge the life of the parish and the life of the university, books that would enable me to take just the right intellectual stance.  Of course, they are in the basement.  In boxes.
The [...]

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A very unsubtle parable

For those of you who have known that I’m findng Amherst a bit lonely–which is pretty much anyone who knows me, I suppose, as I’m not able to hide it very well–I had one of those lovely signs of hope show up outside the window today.
When he was here at the end of September, my [...]

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Solvitur ambulando

 
Last Wednesday, I realized that not only have I only been outside after dark four times in the last three months, I also have been cooped up during the daytime.  Tending a toddler can be a strangely housebound activity: mealtimes, naptimes, all calling us home.  And so I took advantage of preschool to go on [...]

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