About Laurel Good

Laurel Good is a mother and wife. She blogs at Breeding Lilacs.

A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child’s Mind

By |2022-10-16T15:47:47-05:00June 21st, 2012|Categories: Books, Film, Moral Imagination|Tags: |

Michael O’Brien’s “A Landscape with Dragons” is a study of the shaping of a child’s imagination. More than that, it’s an exploration of how stories and their use of images and universal symbols shape a child’s spiritual sensitivity and moral compass. A waist-high stack of liquor boxes runs the length of my dining room wall. [...]

On Community

By |2016-03-13T14:27:54-05:00June 3rd, 2012|Categories: Community|Tags: |

Laurel Good with her son Sam My son Sam was fourteen months old when he first felt the sensation of grass beneath his feet. I lay him on his back on a blanket under a tree so he could watch the wind in the leaves, and he kept his heels in the air [...]

Books That Make Us Human

By |2015-05-18T14:57:16-05:00September 22nd, 2011|Categories: Books, Books that Make Us Human, Catholicism, Conservatism, Literature, Western Civilization|Tags: |

Willa Cather 1) My Antonia, by Willa Cather: Cather’s story of immigrants and the land celebrates the surprising inner strength of one young woman who learns to cultivate the earth, while many who lack her fortitude succumb to the trials of frontier life or give in to their own weak wills. 2) Soldier of the [...]

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