Degrees in Idealism

exploring how we would live if we truly believed life was meaningful

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It’s The Breaths You Take Together

08.27.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 3 Comments

As a parent, it is easy to worry about spending “quality time” with my children. We live in a busy world and family time is usually limited. We’re often told that if “quantity of time” is lacking, we can make up for it with extra-special “quality”— activities, outings, vacations, etc. But I’m always fascinated when […]

Categories // Family Tags // #childhoodmemories, #family, #koselig, #motherhood, #parenthood

When We Play All Day

07.15.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

In becoming an adult, and especially since having children, I’ve been shocked by how bad we adults are at play. For children, play is everything and everything is play. For adults, play is compartmentalized. We work now in order to play later. But oftentimes, this means play never really happens. It’s the American stereotype. We get […]

Categories // Family, Soul Tags // #childhoodmemories, #family, #koselig, #sabbath, #sunday

Why Home Videos Make Us Cry (And Why They Don’t Need To)

03.17.2014 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

Yesterday my husband and I were trying to fix my computer and, in the process, stumbled upon a slideshow of home videos. We were sucked in. And as always seems to happen with home videos, they roused within me that deep longing feeling, that pervasive, aching bittersweetness. And as always, I asked myself why? I […]

Categories // Family, Soul Tags // #childhoodmemories, #children, #family, #livinginthepresent, #love, #memories

About Me

I'm Elizabeth. I'm a wife, a mother to four little boys (and another little boy on the way,) a writer, and a lover and seeker of the beautiful, the true, and the good. I am a believer in idealism-- that even amidst the chaos and the confusion, the exhaustion and the sadness of life there is always joy to be found, hope to be clung to, and a better path to be taken. I write my thoughts on this blog. Links to my fiction books are at the bottom of the page.

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