Canadian troops attend a Thanksgiving Day Mass in Cambrai, France, October, 1918

Monday was Canadian Thanksgiving.

How does darning a sock, Ursula K. LeGuin, the Amish and Post-War rationing teach us to love and serve the Lord?

We do a pious act when we acknowledge that the things we have are not of our own making. I was just thinking this as I was sitting here darning a sock. I know so many younger people – and many who are not young any longer – who do not have basic domestic skills.

The 20th century was the Age of Destruction and everyone who is an adult today was raised in the second half of the 20th century and suffered from grave losses during that destruction, even if they are not aware of it. And a great deal of that loss was cultural. Children were not raised being taught things.

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