Michaela
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Homeschooling mother. Children’s author. Orthodox Christian. 🕊☦️🌲
New England
Joined March 2008
A thread of our family read aloud books for 2025! First up: The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston. A beautiful, mysterious, cozy, atmospheric, and deeply moving story set in an old English castle at Christmastime. We reread it every Christmas. My 7-year-old loves it.
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Astronomers on Mt Athos studying the stars with astrolabes and quadrants BL Add 24189; Sir John Mandeville, Illustrations for Mandeville's Travels; Bohemia; 15th century; f.15r @BLMedieval
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@OldHollowTree @LadyHollowTree found a medieval bee keeper at the Lady of the Lakes Ren Faire in Florida.
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Icon of Joshua's Vision of St Michael the Archangel, Moscow School c.1210
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Photos of old coffee mugs. Love the fonts and the artwork, the dim shade of beige, and the always bulbous handles. Just something about the sum of the parts. They just make you feel good.
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Theotokos Oranta "Woman Clothed in the Sun" - Prosopon School
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Mary Magdalene finding the empty tomb. Drawn by my 8-year-old. ☦️
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Everyone should give @BakeEurope a follow. Kristin is a culinary anthropologist in the style of Elisabeth Luard with a focus on traditional European baking recipes and methods. Her impressive and vast library of content (YouTube channel and corresponding website) is meticulously
A cookie made for the dead? In Italy, Fave dei Morti—“beans of the dead”—are almond cookies flavored with liqueur or cocoa & baked each year for All Souls’ Day to honor passed loved ones. Why are they called beans and how do they get their colors? Watch the 📽️ in my bio!
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My three-year-old asked me to get our icon of St. Lucy down from the wall, and then carried it off on her own and drew it. Her first iconography. She’s so proud of it. So am I. ❤️☦️
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Great words of wisdom from Elder Arsenie Papacioc.
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Then we reread The Horse and His Boy, my oldest’s favorite in the Narnia series. Having now read it several times, this one has grown on me. The talking horse Bree is one of the best characters Lewis ever wrote. And it’s a true adventure novel, with spiritual depth.
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Next up was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve read it out loud…it’s several times a year at this point. It never gets old. Each time I notice something new and more wonderful. Beloved book.
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Alas, I’ve not been keeping this thread current. An attempt at catch-up! We read this children’s adaptation of Pilgrim’s Progress twice in a row, because my oldest loved it so much. I recommend it, but with some reservations…it is very Calvinist. (We’re Eastern Orthodox.)
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“I am saying then, that literacy—the mastery of language and the knowledge of books—is not an ornament, but a necessity. It is impractical only by the standards of quick profit and easy power. Longer perspective will show that it alone can preserve in us the possibility of an
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“This is what Friedrich Nietzsche knew, and what today’s liberal humanists will too often deny: if you knock out the pillars of a sacred order, the universe itself will change shape. At the primal level, such a change is experienced by people as a deep and lasting trauma, whether
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