Mid-Summer Scroll

artworks that are warm to look at, reads, a seasonal recipe and pictures of our summer with turbulent weather shifts

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Poetry of Mid-Summer:

(discovered on Loro Piana social media account)

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Recipe of Mid-Summer:

“Strawberry Clafoutis is a twist on the scrumptious french dessert traditionally made with black cherries. This simple, yet impressive, dessert is brimming with sweet, fresh strawberries encased in a light and fluffy custard-like filling,” by LIFE TASTES GOOD

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Artworks of Mid-Summer:

Ariccia near Rome, 1836 - Mikhail Lebedev

Lilac, 1937 - Pyotr Konchalovsky (“but to have resources within you, to paint lilacs whilst your country is in ruins…”)

By the Lake, 1912 - Helen McNicolle

A Boat Passing a Lock, 1826 - John Constable ("I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.")

Britta cactus, 1904 by Carl Larsson

Summer Sunlight, 1892 - Childe Hassam

Eugène von Guérard - Lake Wakatipu with Mount Earnslaw, 1877-1878

Rubens Santoro - A Venetian canal

Fujishima Takeji, Sunrise over the Eastern Sea, 1932

Bathing Girls in a Rowboat on a Summer Day Just Before Sunset, Harald Slott-Møller

Malik Dieleman - Days of Creation

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Reads of Mid-Summer:

How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged

Inside the Aesthetics of Attentiveness by Erica Grimm-Vance

“There are only two things piercing enough to penetrate our souls in this way; they are beauty and affliction.”(S. Weil, 1977b, pg. 467) She believed them to be the most potent forces available with which life educates the heart. She would count them as likely candidates to cut through the thick skin of presumption, the onrushing momentum of habit, focus attention and to account for the power of aesthetics.”

The Problem With Great Books Programs

“Man no longer turns to God, revelation, nature, or history for guidance, but rather these become malleable to man’s creative will. Each man becomes his own god, his own “Logos,” who believes reality should conform to the “truth” of his own imagination. Man now makes his own reality and demands others adhere to it — the dictatorship of relativism.”

(Also sharing my recently published article, exploring the moral and ethical dilemma of IVF.)

Infertility treatments for Christians?

“In 2011 an Ottawa music station held a "Win a Baby" contest with a grand prize of up to three fertility treatments (valued at $35,000). That bothered Margaret Somerville, who was at that time director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law. She wrote in the Ottawa Citizen that treating a baby as a thing and objectifying it "breaches the foundational societal value that human life is priceless and ‘hors de commerce’ – it’s not commensurable in money and must not be commercialized.”

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Mid-Summer Snapshots:

Thank you for reading, and see you in the next one!