It’s been a busy week. I had some time at home without the kids, and rather than being quite relaxing, it becomes the span of time in which I’m running around trying to get things done - inside the house and out. And so the between that time and the kids being home for spring break, it’s been kind of a mad rush to try to get as much in as possible without making myself sick in the process. Because, if nothing else, the dust will get me!
Writing
Reading
‘Sacred Alaska’: Q&A With Film Director Simon Scionka On Native Culture and Orthodox Spirituality - I meant to get a couple of these links in the post about “Sacred Alaska”
‘Sacred Alaska’ explores Orthodoxy’s holistic approach to mission work, and its enduring legacy
US-Japan ‘forgotten battle’ remembered after death of last Alaskan taken captive in WWII - South China Morning Post | Related to research I’ve previously done on the Orthodox Church in Alaska
Attu's last survivor remembered for his leadership and forgiveness - Alaska Public Media |
Clark County, Wisconsin crash: 2-year-old sole survivor of Dewhurst collision that killed 9 on Highway 95, relatives say - ABC7 Chicago | So incredibly sad… so much a reminder that one absentminded decision can have horrible repercussions.
Princess Catherine Apologises Over Edited Royal Snap - Breitbart | Seriously? Who cares?
Your Car is Tattling on You - Breitbart | Yep. There is no shrinking away from the fight. Stand and fight!
The Beatles' Paul McCartney Explains Why Things John Lennon And Yoko Ono Believed In Were Crap | The title had me laughing!
"The Only Person on Earth Who’s Legally Not Satoshi Nakamoto" - Craig Wright Gets Brutally Trolled as His Bitcoin-Related Claims Stand Discredited - Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym for the person or people who created Bitcoin. A man named Craig Wright tried claiming it was him, it went to court, and it seems that it wasn’t even vaguely possible that he could be Satoshi Nakamoto.
This… um… had me thinking… I found him because his father heads a Biblical Classics project at a college (where Patristics and Computer Science meet - yay!) The writer here is deaf - does this count as “bodyqueer”?
Books
In my “free time”, I’ve been working intently on St. Sebastian Dabovich’s book The Holy Orthodox Church, which was published in 1898. At some point in the near future, I’ll be at a point where I can sit and read through it all at once, but at the moment, I’ve kind of been pulled into his head, if that makes sense. Not that there’s a whole lot in the book that is personal, but, for instance, I was working on the foreward today, and he notes that his book isn’t a great work of theology or anything, but something that might be useful for normal Orthodox Christians of that time, and threw in a little bit of what seemed to be a self-depreciating jab - “Therefore, the reader, if one should be found, must not expect to discover a learned thesis on Liturgic Science, or Theology.” He’s also got a couple of phrase that just make me think that I would have liked to meet this man. Hopefully someday, yes?
Listening
ORTHODOX EXORCIST: Rod Dreher's interview with Archpriest Nectarios Trevino -
Tucker Carlson’s Plane Crashes - Fascinating to hear what a pilot thinks of the story. He never says Tucker is lying; in fact, I think he’s very open to the possibility that what happened was worse than what ended up in the report officially, but as someone who is experienced in aviation, he thinks about these things differently
Watching
I saw the movie “Sacred Alaska” and the link to the post is above.
How to receive Holy Communion (Roman Catholic)
Music
Music and seismic activity at Yellowstone
Laugh
Moms & Daylight Savings
He’s not wrong, is he? *L*
Learn
Tons of CSS links in my history!
1 & 2 Paralipomenon = 1 & 2 Chronicles. I never knew this!
How have you all been? What have I missed?
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for reading! :)