Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Before While I was out on a walk early in the morning a few days before Mother’s Day, I spotted this wooden, black, decrepit couch frame thingie tossed by the side of the road. I have always wanted a place to lie down on my porch, but the wicker settees that I had were much too short. This monstrosity was…
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“Life is as a book whose best pages are as yet uncut, and a growing interest holds us, filling the mind as a flood tide the sinuous shore line.” – William Quayle Oh, dear. Posting will not be occurring regularly this summer! If I’m not traveling, I’m busy being at home and outside. You should stop by, sit a spell, …
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“Our search must be for the grains of gold.” – Charlotte Mason, Ourselves – Our Souls and Bodies, Bk. 2 p. 187 Eastern Screech owlet in our yard this week! These words have been impressed upon me over the past few months. There is so much there. No lecture here, just sharing with you and hoping that you can ponder…
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She (wisdom) is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. Proverbs 3:18 Last weekend was full of wonder. I was speaking at the 2015 Homewoods Gathering, a retreat focused on learning and living out the principles of Charlotte Mason. It was held at the beautiful home of Alex…
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Dicentra spectabilis A sure sign of spring around here is when the airy bushes of bleeding hearts appear. I have been given a few of these old-fashioned plants for Mother’s Day over the years. I plant them next to our door to be sure and spot the dangling beauties as soon as they arrive. This year, my daughter entered them…
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A Mother and Children By a Window at Dusk Viggo Pedersen (1854-1926) Is it possible that the mother could, when alone with her children, occasionally hold this communing out loud, so that the children might grow up in the sense of the presence of God? It would probably be difficult for many mothers to break down the barrier…
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Must-have gem that we referred to often – Storied City: A Children’s Book Walking Tour Guide to New York City We began at the Met. Transfixed by Caravaggio’s The Denial of St. Peter Frederic Remington’s Bronco Buster (a sculpture we studied in TBG) James Jebusa Shannon’s Jungle Tales – Can you guess what this is all about? Thrilled to see…
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Funky ornament found in one of Charlotte Mason’s boxes at the Armitt in Ambleside It is always interesting to come across descriptions of schools and learning in the past. Here is the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s first composition! It’s from These Happy Golden Years (p. 96-98.) I can imagine how her unhurried upbringing, love and attention to the natural…
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lambs in Ambleside last spring Let Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ represent their standard in poetry. – Charlotte Mason Blake’s colored engraving of The Lamb One of the first pieces of poetry my oldest son memorized was The Lamb by William Blake from Songs of Innocence. Few things are sweeter than listening to a six-year-old recite this. (Why didn’t I…
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