clean water and warm sunshine. Our class were then assigned to pick straw berries. Although our clothes were soaked with sweat, we didn't mind it at all becauseit paid off. Seeing our fruits of labor were packed and loaded onto the truck,we all felt satisfied...
Chapters 8: The Rhythm of Labor and Birth and 9: Postpartum Changes and Challenges honor the power, joy and pain of birth and what to expect after the blessed event. Birthing charms and talisman, and a ritual “Creating a Spiritual Birth Plan” allow the intention of birthing as a sacred...
My daughter and family came to have lunch at our house and the grandkids had an egg hunt. This is the third year they have had the egg hunt at our house. We didn’t have a garden in the first year, so they had an indoor egg hunt, running upstairs and downstairs. Although I had ...
Blessed as we are that the brunt of the Creator’s fearsome wrath against sin fell upon His own innocent Son, the heat of that rage which so burned Jesus’ soul is felt a little by all men in the vanity, difficulty, and necessity of labor (Gen. 3:17-18; Eccl. 5:15-17) and in...
and I have concluded to my own satisfaction that a vegetarian diet is: (i) better in terms of the ethics of animal suffering (though not as good as a vegan one); (ii) better for the environment; (iii) not supportive of horrible labor practices that are commonly engaged in by large ag...
One night when I was in the sixth grade, we went to the Burger Pit in Los Gatos, California. Someone had left a Sci-Fi paperback in the booth where they seated us. The cover featured a fetching space maiden in skimpy garb, in the clutches of an ugly alien with tentacles. “You don...
Odo wrote: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for Joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the...
but designs every puzzle and encounter with two players in mind. Each character gets new abilities and powers that are incomplete without the other to solve puzzles, navigate platforming challenges, and fight bosses. The story is also a delight, though with one oddly dark moment involving a stuf...
We explored this magical artificial landscape together, which Lanier had created just hours before. Our gloved hands could pick up and move virtual objects. It was Lanier who named this new experience “virtual reality.” It felt unbelievably real. In that short visit I knew I had seen the ...
Thanks to this continuous labor, she “ate” just enough to get by, before the tube. She didn’t lose much weight, and she did grow longer, but she didn’t gain any weight either. I just needed to try harder. ‘You have to hold her like this,’ said one lactation consultant. ‘...