Episode 30: The Literary Life of Caitlin Beauchamp
On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Angelina and Cindy interview Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp. In addition to being a homeschool graduate and a lover of the humanities, Caitlin is a busy wife and a mother of young children. In their conversation, Angelina, Cindy and Caitlin dive into the deep end from the start, discussing the purpose of beauty. They talk about Caitlin’s early reading life and how she came to love books. She shares how she had to learn some humility in her reading life as an adult.
Angelina asks Caitlin how she finds the time to keep up her reading life amidst the responsibilities of mothering. Cindy and Caitlin talk about the importance of feeding your mind with other people’s ideas instead of taking the road to self-pity. The ladies discuss the timing of reading certain books to children and the great joy of watching children blossom as they listen to the right kinds of stories. Caitlin shares some of the books she reads to get out of a slump, as well as some other favorites and current reads.
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In the Bleak Midwinter
by Christina Rossetti
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him, whom cherubim, worship night and day,
Breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom angels fall before,
The ox and ass and camel which adore.
Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
But His mother only, in her maiden bliss,
Worshiped the beloved with a kiss.
What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.
Book List:
The Reading Life by C. S. Lewis
Poetics by Aristotle
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Stories from The Faerie Queen by Jeanie Lang
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Silence by Shusako Endo
Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery
Middlemarch by George Eliot (the Audible version read by Juliet Stevenson)
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
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Ana Braga-Henebry
Read Moby Dick. Actually it’s a great listen. Some chapters are simply unforgettable. There’s one entitled “White”. Wow. You will finish it and say, “remember that comment by that “Ana” way back when? She was right.”