Degrees in Idealism

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

Lenten Music

04.06.2019 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 2 Comments

A little late, but I wanted to share the playlist that helps me focus on the season. I hope it can help you too!

Categories // Soul Tags // #beauty, #catholicism, #lent, #music

My Favorite Children’s Picture Books

03.24.2018 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 4 Comments

“Read to your kids,” parents are told over and over again. Choosing books in favor of T.V. or other sorts of entertainment is surely a no-brainer. But does it matter what you read to them? With all the reading campaigning that goes on, it would seem like any combination of words and pictures bound together […]

Categories // Beauty, Family Tags // #beauty, #books, #charlottemason, #children, #homeschooling, #parenting

What is an animal that is not nocturnal?

11.30.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

My three year old turned to me, and asked, urgently, What’s it called when an animal is NOT nocturnal? Hmm. I don’t know. That’s a good question. He paused for a few moments and, maybe one day when me and Nicholas are big we can go and find a dragonfly. And then we can ask […]

Categories // Beauty, Culture, Soul Tags // #beauty, #livinginthepresent, #technologyproblems, #wonder

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 — […]

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

If Computers Replace Mozart

02.06.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

I recently watched a video that compared human composed music with computer composed music. I was sure that the computer music would be robotic and easily recognizable. I was wrong. The computers made symphonies just as the humans made symphonies and most people (including me) couldn’t tell the difference between the two. And this terrified […]

Categories // Beauty, Culture, Soul Tags // #beauty, #findingmeaning, #mozart, #music, #technology, #technologyproblems

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 […]

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

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