Put those teenagers out to pasture
For some months now, I have been consumed with starting this little school, Saint Anthonys' Academy. It is a place I first conceived of...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 19, 2019
- 6 min
Whilst Residing at the Palace Court Hotel
or "Part Two of My First European Adventure" In the summer of 1995, I made my first trek across Europe. I began by touring England and...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
My First European Adventure: Part One
This month twenty four years ago, in the summer of 1995, I made my first trek across Europe. I began by touring England and Scotland...
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Lara Neri
- May 15, 2019
- 4 min
Give Sorrow Words: the Healing Power of Theater
Over the past 10 years my husband and I have done quite a bit of reading, taking classes, attending conferences, and learning from...
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Lara Neri
- Mar 21, 2019
- 4 min
saying yes to losing control
When I was younger I did not want the mess, the noise, the chaos, or the financial burden of children. And I was under the impression...
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Lara Neri
- Mar 19, 2019
- 3 min
Superheroes & the Triumph of Orthodoxy
The first time I remember seeing an icon was in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I was taking a class in Israel my sophomore year...
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Lara Neri
- Mar 7, 2019
- 4 min
Adoption. God loves it.
We adopted our son six weeks after he had survived a premature birth at 25 weeks due to an overdose of cocaine. He was born at 1 lb. 14...
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Lara Neri
- Feb 14, 2019
- 3 min
St. Valentine: active love is labor and fortitude
In our family, we have four very intense children, two adopted with trauma histories, one with secondary trauma, one with a missing...
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Lara Neri
- Jan 17, 2018
- 2 min
tea & tiny emperors
This past summer I was very blessed to be able to participate not only in another iconography class with the Byzantine School of...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 26, 2016
- 2 min
art camps: pursuing Beauty together
Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 5, 2016
- 1 min
love despite ugliness
Today at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 22, 2016
- 1 min
rebirth & regeneration: the image of the snake
Today in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 8, 2016
- 1 min
beauty & simplicity
The Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 3, 2016
- 1 min
enjoy an art museum today
Now that school is out, many parents are looking for interesting, fun alternatives to sitting around at home watching their children...
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Lara Neri
- May 5, 2016
- 1 min
the feast of St. George
St. George is a popular saint, renowned for slaying a dragon and saving a princess. He is venerated as a vanquisher of evil and knight of...
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Lara Neri
- May 2, 2016
- 3 min
doing shots for the saints
The first time I met Babushka, my friend Ira’s 76 year old grandmother, she appeared as a tiny speck in a row boat across the water. As...
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Lara Neri
- Feb 12, 2016
- 2 min