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June Snapshots

July 2, 2016August 12, 2016 Rabbit Trails

June was absolutely beautiful in Coastal Virginia. Cool temperatures enabled us to savor the outdoors before the crushing humidity we know is coming in July and August. The very first day of June we hosted our church Home Group. I … Continue reading June Snapshots

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Remembering Normandy: The National D-Day Memorial

October 6, 2013June 13, 2014 Rabbit Trails

The National D-Day Memorial is located just minutes west of Lynchburg in Bedford, Virginia. We regularly pass by it on our way to the family farm, but despite our love for history, we never took time to take the exit … Continue reading Remembering Normandy: The National D-Day Memorial

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The Moses Myers House

September 17, 2013March 30, 2014 Rabbit Trails

Last year as I was brainstorming ideas for local outings suitable to a year of studying Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Classical Greece, Republic and Empirical Rome and its demise, I scheduled in several focus trips to our local Chrysler Museum of … Continue reading The Moses Myers House

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The Grandeur that is Dome…

August 10, 2013September 6, 2017 Rabbit Trails

As we moved toward Imperial Rome, our effort to connect our history study to architecture looked upward beyond columns to domes.  The classic Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster describes the construction of the original Pantheon in Rome by Caesar’s … Continue reading The Grandeur that is Dome…

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Connecting Architecture to History

July 22, 2013September 6, 2017 Rabbit Trails

Having grown up in various regions of the Old Dominion I’ve been surrounded by Classical Architecture all my life.   From the capital city of Richmond, the outskirts of Washington D.C., the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge, to the Chesapeake Bay … Continue reading Connecting Architecture to History

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Stopping by Mount Vernon Plantation

August 18, 2012October 6, 2013 Rabbit Trails

For a time my family lived in Northern Virginia just 5 minutes from Mount Vernon Plantation.  I graduated from Mt. Vernon High School!  My friends and I would often use the far reaches of the plantation’s parking lot as a … Continue reading Stopping by Mount Vernon Plantation

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“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

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Truth is eternal,
knowledge is changeable.
It is disastrous to confuse them.

Madeleine L'Engle

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course, it is the cross.

Flannery O'Connor

How is it possible?

How is it that God permeates the universe, that everything that is - comes from his hand; that every thought and emotion we have - has significance only in Him yet we are neither shaken nor inflamed by the reality of His presence, but able to live as though He did not exist? How is this truly Satanic deceit possible? Romano Guardini

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