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Ruthie Owens's avatar

I looooved listening to the Embodying Cultures of Life panel. Thanks for sharing Haley!

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Haley Baumeister's avatar

YES. It was extremely up your alley so I'm glad you listened. :)

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Steve Kays's avatar

Happy anniversary!

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Haley Baumeister's avatar

Thanks Steve.

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Dominika's avatar

Thank you for linking my post! "The Robert Farrar Capon Memorial Center for Needless Splendor and Research Institute in Unnecessary Studies" is amazing. Is this a real thing? And laminators! I didn't feel like we were an official homeschooling family until I bought one. "our household life is forever changed, unstoppable, etc." Truth!

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Haley Baumeister's avatar

hahaha I think you need a free login to read the old posts at Mere Orthodoxy. But no it's not a "real" thing. You would love reading the whole post though, it's amazing. :')

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Leah's avatar

Forsaking All Others -- so good!

"When we bind ourselves to just one thing, we refuse to imagine ourselves as the sum of all of our choices. We might then become persons who have received grace, not made but given." I've been finding myself gradually watching options and choices slip away -- over the entirety of marriage -- as I receive gifts and seek faithfulness in, and to, them. It's quieter. Solid. And truly it feels otherworldly at times, in an age obsessed with, yes, optimization.

Thanks for consistently reminding me to consider this contrast of life given vs life made. It's showing up in so many areas, which is helping me to sink in more deeply.

Thanks for sharing the collection this week.

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Sarah Greene's avatar

So many good pieces! Thank you

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Jim Dalrymple II's avatar

So much great stuff here!

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Haley Baumeister's avatar

I have a piece of yours on deck for this week!!! Housing, baby!!

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Grace Leuenberger's avatar

A couple of things:

1. I am slowly reading Leaves of Change, too, after you posted about it! I love it, and it's giving me a new appreciation for the process of growing and tending to a garden, which I will help with a little bit at culinary school. It's a lovely book.

2. I highly recommend the music-album vignette writing exercise! I wrote a piece on this topic sometime last year, based on the idea of a "sound map," which I had read about in a Niall Williams novel. It was a lovely exercise and transported me back through time and space in a way I don't often get to do. I tend to neglect my imagination in favor of sharpening my intellect; not good! Linking here if you want to read :) https://substack.com/@graceleuenberger/p-144947792

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Haley Baumeister's avatar

AMAZING on both fronts, here. I'm glad you're reading it! And thank you for sharing this piece. I've saved it to visit soon.

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Alecia Nicole's avatar

So many good things in this one!! The Screwtape Letters discussion in the NY Times (Fascinating! I don't know who the Gen Z speaker is, but she seems fascinating)...the beautiful essays on marriage...and the quote about intellect in overdrive that I was about to comment on, then looked back at the original post and realized I've already told you how much I loved those specific sentences. Haha, thanks for sharing all these things! I have lots to dig into this week now. :)

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Haley Baumeister's avatar

Yeah I had never heard of her before, either. But apparently she's some economics influencer of some sort? And I presume a Christian (maybe??) as she recommends not only The Screwtape Letters but another C.S. Lewis book (A Grief Observed) toward the end of the episode. Wild times.

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Amelia Buzzard's avatar

Wait Haley, are you Anglican? We are in the process of joining an ACNA church

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Haley Baumeister's avatar

We've been going to one. It's a whole weird story, but I suppose we'd like to "be Anglican."

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