Archive for October, 2009

Domestic joys by Walt Whitman

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses–they are not phantasms . . . they have weight and form and location.” - Walt Whitman

Prosaics in family

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Applying the philosophy of prosaics to family: Seeing the Everyday. The philosophy of “prosaics,” created by contemporary literary critic Gary Saul Morson, “. . . Questions whether the most important events may not be the most ordinary and everyday ones—events that we do not appreciate simply because they are so commonplace. . .”

Pertinent to the work I am engaged in

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Seeing the Everyday is so pertinent to the work I am engaged in as a mother and wife, and it both encouraged and inspired me to make some improvements.