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Mountains:
Sarah’s family hiked a few miles on the Appalachian trail in the Blue Ridge Mountains last week. The magenta flowers are rhododendrons and they were everywhere! The blueberries grow wild and thick there.
Links:
[I would like to get all of my mutuals together for this. —Sarah]
Snacks:
Clare made the largest meal she has ever prepared on Tuesday: macaroni and cheese and a salad for seventy-five people! She had the help of four other women. Next week it will probably be over a hundred. She’s preemptively exhausted.
Sarah did not do much cooking this week due to vacation, but she did make this bread:
She added extra water because the dough did not seem wet enough, but then it was SO wet and sticky that it didn’t hold its shape very well (hence the gnarly top) and didn’t have a great crumb. But her family really liked it and she is hoping she can reduce their store bought bread needs with regular baking.
Music:
Clare went to go see a band she had never heard of called Scythian a little ways away in Virginia the other day. She hates their name, but she loves their music! They play really great Irish music, even though they are Ukrainian. Go figure.
Poem:
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
What we’re reading:
Clare read a really cool short story the other day but hasn’t been reading much. She has watched a few good movies though so she will talk about that. She recently watched Rossellini’s Flowers of St. Francis, and was amazed by the excellent face acting in it from the cast, which was made entirely up of old monks. Then she watched Melville’s Leon Morin, Priest which broke her heart many times over. With another of the girls she watched the new Daily Wire documentary, What is a Woman? That one kind of broke her heart. But then shewent to the actual theater to watch the new Top Gun movie and, you guys, she loved it!!!! Fun for the whole entire freeking fambly!!!! And Tom Cruise is in such great shape?! Anyway ok tonight she is going to watch Dreyer’s Ordet. It probably won’t be as good as Top Gun tho. 😔 [I take it back. Ordet rocked. —C]
Amy hopes to finish the two books her co worker loaned her before her last day at this job next week. She’s also reading the final book of CS Lewis’s Space Trilogy and she’s really enjoying it so far. [YAY! Let’s talk about it soon. –Sarah]
Sarah went on vacation. Here are the books she said she was going to bring.
And she did bring all of them! But at the last moment she also slipped Boomers by Helen Andrews into her bag, because she was excited to read it.
First she finished Middlemarch. The closing line is so beautiful: “...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
Next, she read Boomers by Helen Andrews.
After this Sarah finished reading Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis. Then she re-read Till We Have Faces, which is her favorite book ever. She is saving her (many) thoughts for next newsletters.
Exhortations:
Forgive us! It was Clare who dropped the ball on getting this out earlier this week! Send her away! [This is so okay, Clare! I think the newsletter is much better for the wait. –Sarah]
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