What is the value in abstract art?
This week I took my 7th and 8th grade art students to visit the Modern art museum in Fort Worth. There were a lot of comments such as:...
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Lara Neri
- Sep 12, 2019
- 4 min
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
- Sep 5, 2019
- 6 min
Chasing the White Whale
When I was at university there was a professor, Dr. Curtsinger, who was obsessed with Moby Dick. I never took any classes with him, but...
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Lara Neri
- Aug 2, 2019
- 7 min
top 10 audible listens for a family road trip
In our family, we listen to audiobooks constantly - in the car, playing legos, cooking, cleaning, getting ready to go to sleep. We have...
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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
- Jun 13, 2019
- 5 min
My favorite Russian Murderer
My husband and I have just finished a refreshing three-day class at the Dallas Institute discussing Gogol’s Dead Souls, Melville’s...
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Lara Neri
- May 9, 2019
- 4 min
Where is that lacrosse team?
When I was a graduate student in literature, I came across two books that had a formative effect on my philosophy of education: John...
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Lara Neri
- Apr 4, 2019
- 4 min
Onward & Upward
I remember listening in amazement in high school chapel at my Christian school as various guest speakers told of dramatic conversions...
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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
- Feb 28, 2019
- 3 min
Will "Beauty save the world"?
I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...
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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
- 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 21, 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
- May 8, 2016
- 1 min
the transformative power of story
Various influences were dropped into my path that lead me into the Catholic Church, one of the most prominent being the work of Fyodor...
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