Welcome back to another week of what the girls are reading :)
To-do list:
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Links:
New Darren Beattie interview. Cool!
Certain girls are kind of like this
NPR is now recognizing Christian Girl Autumn
Friend of the newsletter Teddy’s excellent writeup of Natcon.
Food:
Amy ate this:
Sarah made pasta.
She also went to a farmer’s market on Thursday and bought peaches and something called a ground cherry, which tastes halfway between a cherry tomato and a grape.
Clare had pawpaw for the first time this week. It was great.
Right after eating the pawpaw she went on a punishing and horrid retreat where she ate punishing and horrid retreat food. It was a silent retreat so she ate all her meals outside alone as opposed to beneath the oppressive fluorescents of the cinderblock cafeteria which she imagines could double as a bomb shelter in a pinch. She chose solitude at mealtime partly because of the lack of mind for architecture, but mostly because there is almost no sound more dreadful than the sound of people shifting in their seats and scraping utensils across plates while solemnly masticating. The only sound more dreadful is lots of people thinking at once.
Poem:
What we’re reading:
Amy is reading Atonement.
Sarah is reading On the Incarnation
Clare finished that little Randall Jarrell book about the bat who decided to become a poet. She’s moving along well with her Bible and the Steinbeck book she mentioned in the last issue.
Exhortations:
Now is the time to make sure you have good cold weather basics, so take inventory of your boots, jackets, and sweaters <3
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