What Draws Me to Agatha’s Almanac
A film that hurts my heart with its mediative, quirky beauty. Watched at the MHV among garden club members. In the presence of the film’s very star. Aspirational. More thoughts here.
Books and Film
Reading Carl-Klassen’s book: Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders
Right from the start, the title of this book had me: Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders: A Century of Stories from Mexico’s Mennonite Villages, by […]
Martens’ ‘Lineage’ helps me understand my own
I want to read this right before going to sleep, so I can dream about five centuries of wandering Mennonites. This is exactly the kind […]
I read her diary. Now what?
I told you that I was going to read Anna Baerg’s diary, and then I fell down some rabbit holes, but I’m on the other […]
Reading the Diary of Anna Baerg
Not the Diary of Anne Frank… which, it has just occurred to me, I have never actually read either. As I have tried to start […]