Walking in the Light
We all interact with art every day. For most of us, our day-to-day engagement with art is the common habit of listening to the radio as we drive to work or turning on the television after supper. Whether we are aware of it or not, those songs and shows communicate something to us. Art has subject matter, and that subject matter fills our imaginations. Therefore, we ought to concern ourselves with what kinds of subject matter we take...
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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