1. Federation
I don't even have a photo of the day, but I can happily report that John, Mary, and Margaret all scored Superiors on piano and theory last Saturday at the National Federation of Music Club's local Festival!- John
- Concerto in C, 1st Mvt. by Haydn
- Jazz Exercise No. 2 by Oscar Peterson
- The Grand Tetons by Valerie Roubos
- Mary
- Spokane Falls
- Aria by Handel
- Margaret
- First Dancing Lesson by Andrey Komanetsky
- Arabesque by Friedrich Burgmuller
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| My pianists last week at a recital |
2. The Jungle Book
We enjoyed a field trip Monday to see "The Jungle Book" at the children's theater. Margaret (7) did not know until the morning of the event, so scolded me for not forewarning her because she knows our general family rule that we read a book before seeing the movie or play. I thought she wouldn't need to read this favorite again because she's read the original Rudyard Kipling once and the junior edition three times prior but she's a stickler! |
| Reading before the play |
The sun peeked out after our wettest winter in something like over 100 years and we all enjoyed a brown bag lunch and outdoor play with friends.
The children even had a thank you note ready to hand me at our lunch outing, which touched me!
3. A Glimpse of Spring
Cooler temperatures and rain are returning, but this week we did get to enjoy a glimpse of spring and played outside much more.
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| Lots of muddy clothing every day |
One day, Thomas (3-1/2) tied himself to a tree and very happily stood there admiring his own handiwork for a long time. I'm wondering if he was inspired by our reading aloud the tale of William Tell last week.
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| Reading outside in the fresh air |
4. Miscellaneous Moments
We have been listening to "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough for some time now, so Joseph made a launching machine just like them, he says.
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| Family board game night |
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| Thomas says he built the Bank of America tower. |
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| Cute little brothers! |
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| David loves pizza Tuesdays! |
One day I needed to occupy Joseph (6) for ten minutes while I finished cooking dinner, so I had the sudden, bright idea to hand him a catalog I was about to throw away and offer that he could cut pictures out of it. His eyes bugged out with joy and he leapt at the chance. Next thing I knew, a whole group of my kids began cutting out magazines and, after days of a flurry of paper scraps flying everywhere, we now have an entire family of paper dolls, all with names and various wardrobes at their disposal.
5. Bonus Reading I
"Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence" by Alex Berenson, Imprimis, January 2019 • Volume 48, Number 1-- This was written by an author probably like many of my generation who recall marijuana as "just pot," a light drug, just a plant. He had to be convinced that the new marijuana is an entirely different and very different drug: "I soon realized that in all my years as a journalist I had never seen a story where the gap between insider and outsider knowledge was so great, or the stakes so high."
- The author shows a very high statistical correspondence between use of marijuana and later development of schizophrenia, something worth of better scientific investigation. Marijuana use "accounted for eleven percent of all the psychosis cases in emergency rooms—90,000 cases, 250 a day, triple the number in 2006." We're not talking about just getting the munchies late at night anymore.
- "Cannabis users today are also consuming a drug that is far more potent than ever before, as measured by the amount of THC—delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical in cannabis responsible for its psychoactive effects—it contains. In the 1970s, the last time this many Americans used cannabis, most marijuana contained less than two percent THC. Today, marijuana routinely contains 20 to 25 percent THC, thanks to sophisticated farming and cloning techniques . . . ." (And this does not even discuss that most marijuana on the market today is laced with man-made drugs, some of which have caused overdoses and death.)
6. Bonus Reading II
"Why I Threw Away My Rock and Rap Cassettes in High School" by Peter Kwasniewski at One Peter Five, February 28, 2019
This is an excellent article written using layperson's language that is shorter and more accessible than perhaps listening to a longer homily, listening to an even longer audio CD talk, or reading an entire book--all resources offered at my page Worthwhile Listening.
The findings on key questions were informative:
7. Bonus Reading III
Two articles on the same study are offered below and the numbers are stunning. I'd like to see the next study be much larger, and I'd also love to see a survey of Catholics who attend the Novus Ordo exclusively but attend it every single week and holy day of obligation in order to have a likely more apples-to-apples comparison.- "National Survey Results: What We Learned About Latin Mass Attendees" by Brian Williams at Liturgy Guy, 2/25/19
- "New Survey Shows Disparity of Beliefs Between Latin Mass, Novus Ordo Catholics" by Steve Skojek at OnePeterFive
Quotation from OnePeterFive:
The findings on key questions were informative:
- 2% of TLM-attending Catholics approved of contraception vs. 89% of NOM Catholics.
- 1% of TLM Catholics approved of abortion compared to 51% of NOM attendees.
- 99% of TLM Catholics said they attend Mass weekly vs. 22% of NOM.
- 2% of TLM goers approved of “gay marriage” as opposed to 67% of NOM.
Also of note was the rate of giving among TLM Catholics, which was nearly six times the amount of giving (at 6% of income) as NOM parishioners (at 1.2%). TLM Catholics also had a fertility rate of 3.6 vs 2.3 for NOM — indicating “a nearly 60% larger family size”.
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