spending the day learning how to read chant notation basics
summer.
Part 4 of my thinking through the college search alongside my teenagers. This one is on the architectural spaces on campus: sarahendren.com/2024/07/2…
Read-aloud update: Malcolm and I finished Escape from Camp 14, kissed the ground of this wacky and troubled country we call home, and went back to the Earthsea series. Now at Tehanu.
Sean Illing is a national treasure, and this deep discussion of Nietzsche and his legacy intellectually and politically is a great example of the best kind of podcast convo with a disciplined academic: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
16 yr old daughter discovering architecture this summer.
Today’s much-needed runner’s high courtesy of TV On The Radio. A bed of roses! A rollercoaster! www.youtube.com/watch
Good to see my grad history program getting a nice influx of support: www.latimes.com/californi…
Trying to lean hard into some advice a priest gave to a friend, and by extension, to me: Don’t push the river.
Gonna be following along eagerly with Paper Shoot cameras: papershootcamera.com/. My friend Jesse pointed me to that product, a perfect companion for the email-based photo app of his that I use with my family and friends: finite.photos/.
This’ll be me all week
Picking up our eldest from Down syndrome camp. Dance party to end the night! There are no dance parties like Trisomy 21 dance parties. Y’all are missing out.
I’ll be a great aunt today. My niece is at the hospital! We’re all so excited.
Oh MAN the Boston French Film Festival lineup looks so good: www.mfa.org/programs/…
Part 3 in my series on considering college. First was on formation, second on readiness, and this one on the prescriptive disciplines: sarahendren.com/2024/06/2…
I wrote about the big beautiful world of adaptive fashion, past and present, in this conversation with Grace Jun on her new book: sarahendren.substack.com/p/the-sha…
Sara H, apparently world’s worst Bostonian: why are all these ppl in the train wearing Celtics gear
Some days it feels like all intellectual roads lead to Erich Fromm’s having and being.
People with Down syndrome who were hospitalized with COVID were six times more likely than others to have a DNR order: news.harvard.edu/gazette/s…
Still amazed at how few people know how to ask questions in a social setting. It’s not hard! But people only know how to talk, tell stories, show their expertise. Then they pause, silent, and wait to be asked something else. I am freakishly curious, so I’ll do it, but it’s not a conversation.