The Thoughtful Homemaker

I don’t really have a favorite word right now. I am enjoying Aron’s new words too much to think of any of my own. He calls tacos “cocos”. He thought I was making tacos last night. When he saw that I was rolling them up to make enchiladas he said they were “coco rolls”. I […]

Acheiropoieta means “not made by hand”. Acheiropoieta are icons that are supposed to have been made miraculously and are not made by human hand. There are several acheiropoieta around the world and are considered to be powerful and especially holy. The most famous of these is the shroud of Turin.
Another famous acheiropoieta is the […]

Porphyrogenitos literally mean “born of the purple” and is used to describe one born of a Byzantine “Basilieus” or emperor and an “Augusta”, his wife. The child was literally born in room made with walls veneered with porphyry, a purple stone only found on top of a mountain far away in the barren part of […]

Being a reader of history, “iconoclasm” isn’t necessarily a new word for me. I read it again this week and discovered that one of my ancestors was an iconolater or one who engages in iconoclasm. He was a puritan whose son was closely allied and even married a Quaker and Quakers were not known for […]