Time has been chugging along here lately... It has been so long since I posted. Some new things are going on, like I am helping to lead the K-2nd grade choir at church. Work has slowed down quite a bit in the last week or two. School has started and most everyone who will be learning Latin this year have already purchased their books. I really like working in publishing. It sounds sort of glamorous, though that usually dissapates a bit when I say that it is a Latin curriculum... confusion begins to set in a little bit. But nothing compared to when I worked at Hersheypark. Then you could see the confusion and the slight disdain fall over a listener's face. Now in this job, people don't have many pre-conceived notions of what it is like to work for a publisher of a nitch curriculum. Still the nitch exists, and I think classical education is one of the most interesting and potentailly influential movements going on in education right now. Amazing people are involved, and are bringing all kinds of talent with them. Interestingly, the main bulk of the revival of classical education is being spearheaded by Christians. A lot of Christins are begining to care and insist that we know and understand our culture, and the culture that we have come from as a Western civilization. I can see how Christians, as edcators, are acting as salt in this culture, as the preservative, in a time where much education is as thin and nourishing as Cool-aid. It is a very exciting movement to be working in. And non-Christians are taking note as well. Today we had a not-necessarily-Christian-but-very-ritzy prep school call and ask for evaluation copies of our texts...they are going to start teaching Latin to their elementary students... But anyway the job is good. Gets better everyday.
I am also trying to decide if I would like my Grandmothers organ. It is big and heavy and I don't know how to play it. I have been wanting to play a mandolin for years and that would be so much lighter and easier to carry around... but it is my Gramma's, and no one else wants it, so it is currently sitting in Goodwill. At least it was as of last friday. If it is not there anymore then this paragraph is irrelevant, but I am trying to weigh the value against the inconvenience. Stuff can be very inconvenient. I am close to the stage of going through a lot of my stuff again and deciding what to keep and what to get rid of. I still have three copies of Mere Christianity, left from a Bible study in college, and I hoped to pass them along to others who might want it... and I think I gave away one, but do I still need three copies of Mere Christianity?
Well I am starting to fall asleep, so that is my update for now... Time to go to bed... Maybe someone who really wants an organ, and plays it, and can't afford one will find it and buy it before I can get over there... Then I will be able to sleep in peace. Anybody want an organ?
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Sadly, we recently got rid of our organ. It's hard to even give them away; just check the papers. If cost, space, and the moving of it are not issues, take it. Even if you get a mere year of use, think of all the creative diversions it will allow. Twenty minutes to spare? Figure out your favorite hymn. Make up a tune. You'll feel great an avoid those ruddy mandolin calluses.
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