Growing Flax: An Expression of Culture Making
Where do clothes come from? This simple question has a simple answer on its face. The main four natural fibers are wool, silk, linen, and cotton. How those fibers become fabric is far more complicated than I previously realized. I have little experience with wool, silk, or cotton. However, I am learning how to work with flax. Flax is a strong, fibrous plant that, when harvested and processed, becomes linen thread. My goal is to follow...
Honoring a Life Well-Spent
by Sarah E. Lytle Children look forward to adolescence; teenagers look forward to adulthood; adults look forward to retirement; and the elderly look back to the happiness of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. That is, people often wish for a different situation in life. If a man could only reach the next phase of life, then he would find happiness and contentment. Of course, this phenomenon is not new. Many of the great...
Frugality: A Habit for the Steward
by Sarah Lytle Lydia Maria Child called extravagance “the prevailing evil of the present day” in 1828.[1] Her book The American Frugal Housewife taught families how to live within their means. After reading that book, I began to consider the relationship between frugality, as Lydia Maria Child named it, and Biblical stewardship. Over the past few years, I have become interested in nineteenth-century cookbooks and other books written...
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