Weekly Virtue: Recap Restraint, Prep Courage or Fortitude

The week started with me yelling at my daughter to go faster, finish her meal, get her boots on, stop fussing about the wrinkle in her sock, and generally stop slowing things down.
Definitely something I need to cut back on, but restraint is nothing without something to replace the old behaviour.
Greene’s book The Explosive Child [...]

Weekly Virtue: Humility Recap and Start Heavenly Virtues, Prudence

My grand goal is for this to be picked up by others, to become a virtual tour. If you’re aware of another blog leading something similar, let me know. I may drop this and join there. If you’d like to join, do so, either in the comments or link to your own blog. If you’d [...]

Weekly Virtue: Recap Chastity, Prepare for Humility

Recap Chastity, Prepare for Humility

Weekly Virtues: Cleanliness Recap, Tranquility Preparation

Still working through Ben Franklin’s 13 virtus. This week was Cleanliness.
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
This was the worst week in a long time for cleaning the kitchen first thing in the morning. It often waited until the kids got home from school. Not good. The rest of the house is about average.
Husband [...]

Weekly Virtues. Moderation Recap, Cleanliness Preparation

This week’s virtue was Moderation.
Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Hmmm, I suppose 10 hours on Dad’s site was excessive, especially since it included research and experiments into neat things about the program that won’t go on his site. Spending all of yesterday reading also counts. On the other hand, [...]

Weekly Virtues Rebooted, again. Justice Recap. Prepare for Moderation.

Sandy picks up where she left off with the Weekly Virtues. Recap Justice and prepare for Moderation.

Weekly Virtue: Sincerity Recap; Justice Prologue

This was supposed to go up the 10th. It’s now the 13th. Oops.
The Past
The virtue last week was Sincerity.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
I was most definitely not mindful of this during the week. If you’d asked me what the virtue of the week was, I [...]

Weekly Virtue: Industry

Industry. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Need to cut down on the internet a bit more (no surprise there), but I’ve had appointments and deadlines fast and furious lately, and met them all. Two revisions of the storytelling schedule bookmarks. Learned two stories and repolished three more. [...]

Weekly Virtue: Frugality

Next in a series exploring virtues, and how they apply (or not) to my life.

Virtues

Well, l guess some things are in more order now. I bought several weeks worth of meat at the good butcher today. All organic. Also finished shredding 2001-2005. No clue where 2006 is. 2007 is in a box.
Also bought date book for next year. I’m going 3×6 (approx), monthly, with post-its and separate notebook. Nice [...]