#Reality

Ah, le French vatnique !

Ihania kerrakseen ❤️

Kas, aamiaishuoneessa on televisio, ja sattumalta näin puffin Mielensäpahoittaja-filmistä (olen siis Ranskassa) 😅

Agreed 👇

St-Étienne-du-Montin urkuparvi

Notre-Damen urkuparvi

Su kirkkopäivä: ap St-Étienne-du-Montin urkuparvella, ip Notre-Damen urkuparvella ❤️

"It was…he said, a principle in the history of the world, that evil should bring forth good, and his poor little cock-boat had been set adrift upon an ocean of blessing."

George MacDonald

(From "The Marquis of Lossie," CHAPTER LXX, THE DISCLOSURE)

Aloitin viime viikolla lukemaan @oula.bsky.social ja Aapo Roseliuksen Villi itä, joka on ollut kovaa kamaa.

Tälle teokselle voi antaa kyllä lämpimän lukusuosituksen! Heimosotia käsittelevä kirja käy kotimaan historian ja luokkakonfliktien perusteoksesta

Onko #kirjasky #kirjataivas yhä käytössä?

"Have you a library?" asked Lady Joan—mainly to say something, for she was not particularly fond of books; like most people she had not yet learned to read."

George MacDonald

(From "Warlock o' Glenwarlock," CHAPTER XVI, THROUGH THE DAY)
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What is it to really learn to read?

JD Vance is bragging about cutting weapons to Ukraine while cozying up to authoritarians. This isn’t America First, this is America Last. I unpack all of this in my Week In Review on my YouTube page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsI_...

Argentina is the IMF's biggest borrower by a longshot. Source: buff.ly/23r7f0X

"A man must do a thing because it is right, even if he die for it; but truth were poor indeed if it did not bring at last all things subject to it! As beauty and truth are one, so are truth and strength one."

George MacDonald

(From "Donal Grant," CHAPTER XIV, THE SCHOOLROOM)

Paljon onnea, @dillemuths.bsky.social 🎂☀️💐🥂🎵❤️

Footage of the celebrations of "Tisza" supporters in Budapest, #Hungary.

"Most men who learn would learn more, I suspect, if they had work to do, and difficulty in the way of learning."

George MacDonald

(From "There and Back," CHAPTER X, THE LIBRARY)

"…actions in themselves good, however imperfect the motives that give rise to them, react blissfully upon character and nature. It is better to be an atheist who does the will of God, than a so-called Christian who does not."

George MacDonald

A different map of Iberia emerges underwater: a narrow Atlantic shelf drops off fast, the Strait of Gibraltar acts as a turbulent hinge, and the Mediterranean sits warmer and enclosed. Source: buff.ly/44PrT9z

"…he did not know that there are many other educations besides a college one, some of them tending far more than that to develope the common-sense, or faculty of judging of things by their nature…"

Tämä on helppo uskoa, siispä sitä kieltämme vaalikaamme ❤️

“. . . I hae had what’s ca’d a good education—though I hae learned mair frae my ain needs than frae a’ my buiks.”

[“. . . I have had what’s called a good education—though I have learned more from my own needs than from all my books.”]

George MacDonald

“A man must do his duty, if he would be a free man, whether he likes it or not, and whether it is appreciated or not. But if he can regard it as the will of God, the work not fallen upon him by chance, but given him to do, understanding that every thing well done belongs to His kingdom..."

Sir Gibbie is definitely one of my favourite novels, by any author ❤️

Ihmiset saavat jälleen katsoa elävää planeettaamme kauempaa kuin sen lähikiertoradalta. Pian he näkevät kuinka se nousee Kuun takaa näkyviin.

Kukaan ei ole nähnyt samaa yli 50 vuoteen.

"...the larks kept shooting aloft, there, like music-rockets, to explode in showers of glowing and sparkling song; while, all the time and over all, the sun as he went down kept shining in the might of his peace; and the heart of Mary praised her Father in heaven."

George MacDonald

"Sweet earthy odors rose about Mary from the wet ground; the rain-drops glittered on the grass and corn-blades and hedgerows; a soft damp wind breathed rather than blew about the gaps and gates; with an upward springing, like that of a fountain momently gathering strength..."

"It seems to me, at least, in my great ignorance, that one cannot understand music unless he is humble toward it, and consents, if need be, not to understand. When one is quiescent, submissive, opens the ears of the mind, and demands of them nothing more than the hearing—..."

“ 'Papa,' I said, “why did you say we have done a wrong? You did not do it.'

“ 'My dear boy, persons who are so near each other as we are, must not only bear the consequences together of any wrong done by one of them, but must, in a sense, bear each other’s iniquities even..."

Bach-maraton

Tässä päivän ohjelma ❤️

"I have no time to grow old," said the lady. "I am too busy for that. It is very idle to grow old."

George MacDonald

(From "The Golden Key")

"…She slept little during the night, starting awake as often as she began to slumber, and before the morning came was a good deal humbled. All sorts of means are kept at work to make the children obedient and simple and noble. Joy and sorrow are servants in God’s nursery..."