February 17, 2021 #ThreeShots☕️📚😇
Productivity tips, reading the classics, and Blessed Edvige Carboni
Well, here we are, folks. Lent 2021. If you thought last year was the Lentiest Lent, then stay tuned! 😉
1. Productivity FTW
Need a little boost for your productivity? Here are 40 one-sentence tips.
2. Making the case for reading the classics
Found this gem of a quote from Bob Dylan:
But I had something else as well. I had principles and sensibilities and an informed view of the world. And I had had that for a while. Learned it all in grammar school. Don Quixote, Ivanhoe, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Tale of Two Cities, all the rest—typical grammar school reading that gave you a way of looking at life, an understanding of human nature, and a standard to measure things by. I took all that with me when I started composing lyrics. And the themes from those books worked their way into many of my songs, either knowingly or unintentionally. I wanted to write songs unlike anything anybody ever heard, and these themes were fundamental.
I probably don’t need to convince you to read the classics. And reading them doesn’t mean you like them. But, as I keep finding as I dig into them myself, there’s a reason they’re classics.
Loved the way Dr. Tod Worner encourages us all to revisit the classics (or, for some of us, to discover them for the first time), tapping into Bob Dylan, Flannery O’Connor, and some great writing of his own.
3. Saint of the Day: Blessed Edvige Carboni
Blessed Edvige Carboni was a mystic who was visited by Jesus, Mary, and the saints. She had the stigmata, ecstasies, bilocation, and levitation, among other things. But, by all accounts, she started out as just kid #2 in a line-up of six, who left school in the fourth grade. Though she was attracted to religious life, she took care of her mother instead. She moved to Rome just before World War II and spent her time working with charities and praying for the dead. She was beatified in 2019 by Pope Francis.
Image source: All Saints & Martyrs.
Prayer for today: As we enter Lent today, Lord, may the example of saints such as Blessed Edvige Carboni guide us to your merciful love and abundant grace. 🙏
See you soon, y’all. Remember you are dust…
Blessings and coffee,
Sarah