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Productivity & mindset for Christian homemakers

Weekly Review | roof, resilience, and writing | August 24, 2024

Published 7 months ago • 2 min read

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This week I was skimming and taking notes from Amusing Ourselves to Death for a project, and thought this was a relevant quote:
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People were faced with the problem of information glut, which means that simultaneously they were faced with the problem of a diminished social and political potency....Voting, we might veen say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent...we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing."
— Neil Postman

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House in progress

Roof decking going up! The stuff in blue bags is insulation that needs to go down before we pour the garage pad.

We started our homeschool year this week! So far, so good. It's very fun to have three independent students and a few classes with eager teens. There's a lot of real work to keep up with them, but it's much more my jam than phonics lessons was. :) Of course, no one has turned in papers yet for me to review and give feedback (not grades) on. Reviewing papers is a 90 minute appointment on my calendar moving forward...

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See you next week!

Mystie

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We can actually enjoy housework and love being homemakers when we focus on truth and work with gratitude.

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