Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
coaster – woodburning on cedar for a sweet handcraft (note where the heart is!) Have you added to your commonplace book lately? Here are 3 of my commonplace entries that deal with the dualism that often besets our lives. This has been a hot topic around here lately. From Wendell Berry: I see also that my language has changed. In…
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Morning lessons at TBG/The Hive I have mentioned that in 2010 on the way to L’Harmas in Canada, I had the privilege of sitting next to Ron Stroud, a Classics Professor at UC Berkeley. He noticed that I was reading Howard’s End is on the Landing (a delightful book about books) and we struck up a conversation. Well, I asked…
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Miss Mason extolling the virtues of the Humanities We talked at our last Living Education Lesson about virtue and how it plays out in Mason’s paradigm, particularly in regard to Citizenship. The above was a favorite quote of mine, so I thought I would share. Things are busy this week as I am off to the Large Room Retreat in…
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“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”- from Parnassus on Wheels It’s about time…
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A new year, a new Shakespeare play! In case you didn’t know, all my Shakespeare posts can be found under the TBG tab above (just scroll down). I keep them all there for quick reference. Speaking of Shakespeare, I will be presenting an hour-long Shakespeare immersion in Washington, D.C. on February 3 at the In A Large Room retreat and…
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I love it when we share with one another what books we have finished. Here are my reads for the year, starting with my top picks. If you wrote a list of the books you read this year, please feel free to link to it in the comments below. (My list doesn’t…
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The mother sighed. “So he sits with half-shut eyes, dreaming, dreaming, not one word has he heard!” Hans Christian opened his eyes. “Truly, my mother, every word has gone deep into my heart. I but closed my eyes that I might see more clearly – see that small town of Bethlehem on a night of stars and cold.” …
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The Annunciation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1850 (Christina posed for Mary) Here are my favorite Advent resources that I have used over and over again. There are few things I haven’t shared before and a few that you’ve heard me talk about already. Please don’t try to do more than one or two things – keep it simple and just…
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Festive handcraft for the attendees in Peoria! The Truth, Beauty, Goodness Community teachers recently traveled to Peoria, IL to present an Awakening immersion at The Field Before Us. This is an all-day session where we model an actual meeting of our Charlotte Mason community with the attendees participating as the students. Then in the afternoon, we talk through each subject…
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