Degrees in Idealism

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Embracing the King of Prussia and Other Chaos

11.05.2013 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

Ever since I’ve had music on my computer I’ve had very detailed playlists. I have playlists for every season, for various holidays. I have driving playlists, sad playlists, hyper playlists, mellow playlists. When it was necessary, I didn’t have just one breakup playlist, but three. A breakup playlist for wallowing. A breakup playlist for being […]

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Categories // Beauty, Family Tags // #babies, #beauty, #motherhood, #parenthood, #stress

11 Things My Baby Boy Has Taught Me

10.31.2013 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

1. You really don’t need to take a bath every day. No. You really don’t. 2. When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, sleep. When you want to play, play. It’s silly and useless to try to do them all at the wrong times because you just get frustrated. 3. Being embarrassed is dumb. It […]

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Categories // Family Tags // #babies, #babyboys, #motherhood, #parenthood

Regarding Supermom

07.24.2013 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

I wasn’t going to get the epidural. And they laughed at me. They told me oh you just wait! And I defended myself. I did my research and I did my preparations. But my plans didn’t work out like I wanted them to. I’d love to go through one by one all the reasons I […]

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Categories // Culture, Family Tags // #motherhood, #parenthood, #pregnancy, #simplicity

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About Me

I'm Elizabeth. I'm a wife, a mother to three little boys, 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. A link to my fiction book is at the bottom of the page.

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“There are degrees in idealism. We learn first to play with it academically, as the magnet was once a toy. Then we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that it may be true, that it is true in gleams and fragments. Then, its countenance waxes stern and grand, and we see that it must be true.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I found this quote well described my own experience– consistently reworking my idealism, being surprised by it, sometimes even losing it only to discover it all the more fully. I know we will never find all the answers, but how thrilling it is to find ourselves getting a little closer to the source and summit of things, a little closer, as we work our way through the “degrees.”

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sons of God

A short novella in which Lucifer talks about his dad.

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