Mother Antonia: read Mary Ellen Chase’s A Goodly Fellowship, a memoir of her (Chase’s) teaching career. Her chapter on St. Catherine’s includes a widely-quoted paragraph about Mother Antonia (“[She] went at the realization of St. Catherine’s College with everything she had in her, and she had literally everything….She prayed while she hustled, and she hustled...
Tag: Studying
Conducting research and organizing material.
tagged
Mother Antonia: Finished reading Liberating Sanctuary. Pages duly marked for taking notes. It’s hard to remember life before Post-Its.
scarcity
Mother Antonia: Took notes and categorized them. “Making do with scarce resources” is definitely a category. Infrastructure: literal infrastructure. The Captcha application (Blue Captcha) I was using to filter out spam was making it too difficult for actual people to post comments, so I switched to Akismet.
friends and relations
Mother Antonia: reading, organizing notes, Googling. When S. Antonia was a young student at the University of Chicago, she wrote affectionate, chatty letters to her friend Florence Guthrie of Blooming Prairie, MN, and encouraged Florence to join the Sisters of St. Joseph. Later, when Sister Antonia was president of CSC, a Sister Ste. Helene Guthrie...
pattern recognition
Everything Looks Like A Face: Very productive meeting with Elizabeth. We start to see the larger patterns of give-and-take among the characters, and to sort out where there may be missing tiles in the “mosaic”. Erika: Did some problems. 11 skills away from the coveted Sally Ride badge.
squeaking by
Erika: barely escaped another “nothin'” by doing a couple of problems just now.
baseline
Everything Looks Like A Face: responded to some of Elizabeth’s suggestions and comments. Erika: did some problems.
workaday
Mother Antonia: read research materials. Erika: Did a bunch of problems.
craft
Everything Looks Like A Face: Emailing with Elizabeth. Mother Antonia: Taking notes on Ryan & Wolkerstorfer. Here’s a quote I like from Carroll, Cavallaro & Doherty (Liberating Sanctuary). John Fleming quotes S. Jeanne Marie Bonnett, who somewhat reluctantly had to learn to do crafts when taking courses in Occupational Therapy. I love woodwork. St. Joseph...
and, back to this
Erika: Did some math problems.