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A little background on the Coffee Break Reading List. On my original blog, Homeschool Coffee Break, I started doing an occasional round-up of some of the stuff around the internet that I'd found interesting and worth passing along. Since it was a blog mostly about homeschooling, I tried to make sure I was including articles of particular interest to home educators, but when I was no longer homeschooling my own kids, it got a little harder to keep ahead of homeschool topics, and eventually the Coffee Break Reading List was retired. I've brought it back in this space, but not with the homeschooling focus. Just some interesting and fun things that I hope others will find interesting and fun as well.
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Some of the things around the web that I've been reading or exploring during recent coffee breaks:
An article at Desiring God both encouraged and challenged me when a friend shared it earlier this month. The Ministry of the Pew shares how all of us that might consider ourselves 'normal Christians' have an important role to play in strengthening and encouraged the fellowship of believers. Not all of us are preachers, teachers, or leaders, but God has a part for each of us to play, and as Paul teaches in his letter to Corinthians, "the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable."
Cresting The Hill is a blog I found recently that is written mainly for an over-50 crowd, but she has good stuff for all of us to consider. Like this article: Are You Nice Or Are You Kind? Have you ever considered that there's a difference between being nice and being kind? Or that sometimes being kind requires that you not be quite so nice?
Did you watch any of the Coronation festivities for King Charles III? I did. I'm not a devoted royal-watcher, but I do find it really interesting to follow the royal families, and particularly the British monarchy. After all, I grew up in Canada and remember wishing I could have been along the parade routes during royal visits; and I made sure to get up extremely early in the morning so I could watch Charles and Diana's wedding. (No set your DVR to capture it all back then!) So yes, of course I watched the coronation. Say what you will about the characters of the various members of the royal family, or about the usefulness or necessity of the monarchy, this was a television event watched by millions. A lot of the pomp and circumstance (also the name of an Elgar piece played at graduations, which was also played during the king's procession out of the abbey) was centuries old tradition and the regalia and ceremonies may have seemed stuffy or odd to modern viewers. And whether the ceremonies and rituals are rooted in the religious beliefs of Christianity or other belief systems can be debated. But one thing that struck me as I watched was that the gospel was being presented very clearly in word and music. Ancient scripted words perhaps, and possibly just a traditional recitation not deeply believed by some of the participants, but God's Word does not return void. A writer at The Federalist Papers explains: 350 Million People Around the World Heard the Gospel on Live TV
I did write an article for my homeschool blog about the coronation, so if you're interested in some of the components of the ceremony, you can find it here:
And since Monday is Victoria Day, making this a long weekend in Canada, you might also want to read an older article I have highlighted there: From the High School Lesson Book: Victoria Day
Maybe we should re-read the letters we do have.
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Quotable (I enjoy hunting up little quotes to add to my Five Minute Friday posts, and have started to amass a collection that are begging to be shared somewhere):
The first quote is from the above article about the difference between being kind and being nice. Then I had to share a couple of education related quotes, since it's graduation season! And I just officially joined a choir, so it seemed fitting to include a couple of quotes related to that. Enjoy, or ponder, or both!
I don't pretend to know much about people, but one thing I've noticed over the years is that some people are nice and some people are kind. ~Sangu Mandanna
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. ~B.B. King
Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. ~Wendy Priesnitz
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity . . . to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. ~Paul McCartney
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Some fun things I've found during coffee breaks:
Speaking of choral singing:
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Something I watched during coffee break:
I mentioned watching the coronation, but that was not a coffee break. That was a very early morning cup of tea. I've fallen down many a wormhole on YouTube and Rumble lately, but nothing that sticks out to share. Despite our interest in hockey and the Stanley Cup playoffs going on now, we've watched very few games. Our family's favorite teams were knocked out early, and none of us thought it worthwhile to pay the extra for a streaming service that would allow us to watch playoff games.
My husband has been watching The Good Place, and I've watched a lot of those with him. Very funny and entertaining, and occasionally even makes you think. We've also watched a couple of movies. Last night he suggested watching Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania but I hadn't seen the previous Ant-Man and the Wasp movie, so we watched that instead. Quantumania will probably be our pick for one night this week. A more recent movie we watched one night was A Man Called Otto. It's really good.
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What I've been reading during longer coffee breaks:
Fair As A Star by Mimi Matthews
The Keys to Gramercy Park by Candice Sue Patterson
On my reading pile for upcoming coffee breaks:
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Composition As Conversation by Heather M. Hoover
Find out more at my book blog Just A Second.
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Found anything interesting on the web lately? Read any good books? Leave a comment and let me know!
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