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Happy Wednesday!
A QUOTE
If nothing slows their momentum, Amazon will control nearly 80% of the consumer book market by the end of 2025. Every single book lover should worry. After we’re done worrying, we must change the way we buy books.
Books are a fundamental social good that have an outsized impact on our development, individually and collectively. They move us forward. They have been fundamental to our moral and social evolution, our inner lives, and our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world. What they give us is too precious to trust to a single entity for whom they are ultimately just a product, and whose algorithms value them only by the revenue and customers they bring in. – from a thought-provoking letter from Bookshop’s founder, Andy Hunter
TABS OPEN IN MY BROWSER RIGHT NOW
- Well Read Mom // a new friend invited me to her book club and I think I may join!
- these organic Vitamin D vitamins // getting ready to stock up for cold weather months ahead (you can use this link for $10 off your purchase!)
- this beautiful Gregorian Chant Rosary // I keep this on in the background when I work and it’s so peaceful
- Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet // a new book on my radar
- Overnight Breakfast Egg Casserole // we definitely have plenty of eggs!
A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART
“Mother with Children” by Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller (found here)
A RECOMMENDATION
The Heights School has a wonderful reading list for boys on their website. From the intro: “What cannot be found here are the types of books—a product of very recent times—that have been written to promote reading as a form of entertainment, a mere distraction, to compete with video games, the Internet, and television, leaving little to the imagination. Instead, these recommended titles require the cultivation of a certain amount of interior silence and strength to retreat into a world where the written word works with the imagination to give life to an adventure. As such, it will be an effort for some to become immersed in these books. Nonetheless, the ascetical struggle to cultivate the interior silence necessary to enter these imaginative worlds (both fiction and non-fiction) will undoubtedly be richly rewarded.” I have been referring to the list as I make school plans and introduce new works of literature into our home library.
THREE GOOD THINGS
hens that lay almost a dozen eggs each morning(!!), wearing an apron that was also worn by my great-grandmother, an afternoon thunderstorm
That book list looks to be invaluable! (I even spot some of my favorite titles on it.) That painting by Waldmuller (whom I’ve never heard of until now) is beautiful! Thank you for posting these!
Melisa
I agree! I just love that sweet baby’s grin for his mama!
An apron worn by a great grandmother.. how wonderful and sweet, what a beautiful remembrance to her. I have a tea towel that was my grandmothers and it’s got holes but I treasure it.
My Gram also had a farm way back when, so my aunt mailed it to me, saying I’m following in Gram’s footsteps. I love it so much and I’ll treasure it forever! These little pieces of our history are so important.