Degrees in Idealism

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

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It’s My Body, But That’s Not the Point

11.09.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

It’s My Body, But That’s Not the Point

Unlike my husband and toddler, my love language is not primarily physical affection. I need to be near those I love, but I don’t necessarily need a whole lot of touch. Many nights in bed I naturally graviate to my own cool space once it’s time to sleep, but no matter what, both my husband […]

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Categories // Culture, Family, Marriage Tags // #bodies, #feminism, #love, #lovelanguages, #women

Is Every Girl Beautiful?

04.01.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 3 Comments

Every girl is beautiful. So say the many ad campaigns of the body-positive movement in an effort to end the epidemics of eating disorders, self-hatred, and low self-esteem among girls and women. And I agree. Every girl is beautiful. Every human being is beautiful. I believe we were created, and we are thereby works of art — […]

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Categories // Beauty, Culture Tags // #beauty, #femininity, #findingmeaning, #women

On Creeps

09.14.2014 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

He’s kinda creepy. I’ve heard it countless times used to describe countless guys— as if calling them rude or inconsiderate or dumb or arrogant except not— “creepy” is another level of criticism. It’s a branding. A tattoo on a reputation. When a girl hears a guy described as creepy there’s pretty much no way she […]

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Categories // Culture Tags // #dating, #friendships, #men, #women

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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About The Name

“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

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sons of God

A short novella in which Lucifer talks about his dad.

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