“Wise men are feeling strongly that prudence requires of us, … to live simple lives, to avoid excesses, even if…
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Reader’s Journal 2014
People are naturally divided into those who read and think and those who do not read or think; and the…
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Christmas Books – 2014
I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while…
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Advent and Awakening
We shared a lesson on the poet Eleanor Farjeon at our Awakening session yesterday. We finished the gathering by joining…
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Gratitude – Be on the Watch and Make a Full Return
Idealized painting by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1914 A kindness is like a flower that has…
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The Silver Answer – Another Reason
For us,… whatever ’s undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done. Grief may be joy misunderstood: Only the Good discerns…
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Humanity Unfolds Itself: Handcrafts and the Boy
First, just this quote from George MacDonald: To become able to make something is, I think, necessary to thorough development. …
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Sacred Ministry
The Sower, 1850 – Millet We began a new semester of our Charlotte Mason community, Truth, Beauty, Goodness. You can…
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Fairy Rings
“Where science does not teach a child to wonder and admire it has perhaps no educative value.” –…
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Motto for Teachers
In thinking about humility, we have a former student of Mason’s and secretary of the PNEU, R.A. Pennethorne, giving us…
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Why “Sage Parnassus” or What’s in a Name?
painting by Kay Maniscalco (rather Barbara Cooney-esque, don’t you think?) Quite often I get the question, “Could you explain the…
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Plutarch Primer, Part III
That which is not for the interest of the whole swarm is not for the interest of a single bee….
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