Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
image from Parallel Lives, Amyot translation 1565 “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch Roman fort that Mason’s students visited – and so did we! “Watersheds, hills, lakes, valleys, contours, were studied out of doors as well as places of local interest such as old streets and houses and the…
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Rarely do I go anywhere and not run into problems while traveling. Lost passport? Check. Cancelled flights? Check. Sleeping in airports? Check. Being escorted out of security by a TSA agent? It really happened. Let me explain. I was speaking in Peoria, IL at the Continuing Conversation: From Ideas to Practice conference. It was so wonderful to see this group…
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While we were at Shalom Hill Farm last weekend for the Living Education Retreat, I shared some thoughts about the word shalom at the morning meditation. This is a brief gathering out on the observation deck in the early morning right alongside the baaing sheep and flickering birds. It is a peaceful time to meditate on truth and beauty before…
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I hope you haven’t tired of my reports from the Lake District. I have a few left to share. It has been challenging to find the time to post here. Very soon, the Living Education Retreat takes place out on the prairie. I am so thankful for my five friends that give so generously of their lives and experience in…
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“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.” -Duke Ferdinand, As You Like It, Act 2.1 first ever successful lupine in the Kelly garden So here is what I wrote last week. I am getting ready to leave for…
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Long before I ever heard of Charlotte Mason, I knew who Beatrix Potter was, so seeing her Hill Top Farm was something I was looking forward to. Knowing that their years in the Lake District overlapped, surely they met – right? Charlotte Mason established herself at Ambleside in 1890 , while Beatrix Potter vacationed in the Lake District in the…
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If I was going to go to Ambleside, I had a few things that were a must-see. One of these things had to do with the artist Jean Francois Millet. Years ago, I read about how in 1900, the then-famous artist Fred Yates came to Scale How to give a the college students a talk on Millet. Mr. Yates had…
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“An unwalled university all dedicate to plain living and high thinking.” – Charlotte Mason on Ambleside My husband and I have just returned from a dream trip to England. We spent one week in the Lake District with some very special friends and then three days in London. I kept an abbreviated journal of sorts, which is a good thing…
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A most lovely map from Beatrix Potter – at home in the Lake District When I was quite young, my parents gave me a copy of The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle for Christmas. I remember distinctly being puzzled about that stile that Lucy climbed over. What was a stile? What an odd word that no one from my hometown of…
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