Back from the achingly beautiful desert . . . enjoying the riotous delight of a place so wet the trees grow like weeds. Excellent trip. During which I, unusually for me when I visit the place, got almost no news and no internet time. And was really quite happy that way.
Attempted to goof off one day and ended up doing my planning for the coming homeschool year. Determined that there really just isn’t that much free time running around my life. So I’m guessing the summer vocation will tranform into a full-time gig.
Encyclical remains just partly read. The part I read was, as expected, entirely fabulous.
Speaking of reading and weighty topics, focus for this school year is going to be on Just War, legitimate self-defence & waging peace. Maybe a little will trickle out onto the blog. Probably very little will trickle out — I’m scrambling to get the house ready for the school year, and hope to hit the ground running August 17th (our legal school year opens the 15th, a Saturday) so we don’t run into the gotta-work-through-the-end-of-June thing that hit us this past year.
All that to say, do recommend your favorite titles on Just War and related topics. And if you know of any such titles aimed specically at school-age *boys*, please oh please oh please speak up.
Have a good August,
Jen.