Here is another bookish article by my bookish friend . I am terrifically busy preparing for camping trips, weddings, and speaking engagements and I haven’t had much time to write. So for now, enjoy the piece by Jeannette where she expands on this post from my blog. Little Known Book Treasures When I started to write this, I thought I…
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Brighty!
Probably the easiest way to involve my husband in our homeschool over the years has been to provide him with a living book to read aloud to the kids. If I choose a great title, everyone enjoys and shares in the experience. He doesn’t need any prep time, just drop on the couch and pick up where they left off….
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Commonplace Entry – Living Things Have Shadows
my commonplace book (or rather, one of them!) A thoughtful quote from Rumer Godden to add to my definition of a living book: “Rumer always deplored the idea that books for children, even very young ones, should be relentlessly cheerful – ‘perhaps the reason why these books are so lifeless is that living things have shadows’.” – Anne Chisolm in Rumer Godden: A Storyteller’s Life p….
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Seeing and Storing
It would be difficult to overrate this habit of seeing and storing as a means of after-solace and refreshment. The busiest of us have holidays when we slip our necks out of the yoke and come face to face with Nature, to be healed and blessed by “The breathing balm, The silence and the calm…
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Discovering a New Author by Cheri Struble (Guest Post)
I am so pleased to share with you today this guest post by Cheri Struble! Recently Cheri told me about this new-to-me author and I asked her to try and put her enthusiasm down on paper. Enjoy this post and leave Cheri a comment at the end. -Nancy Iris Noble (1922-1986) I first met Iris Noble quite by accident….
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The Rarer Action – Resources for The Tempest
“The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.” – Prospero Prospero with his daughter Miranda I had hopes of a stage production, but circumstances in my life necessitated some changes in plans. It wasn’t going to be a big deal, but we would at least have had a stage, an audience, and a few sound effects. Instead, we had…
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Edith Schaeffer (1914-2013)
I met Edith Schaeffer in Rochester at a L’Abri conference over 15 years ago. She was tiny and intense, with dark eyes that looked right into you. It was the sort of look that makes you feel like, even though there were hundreds of people in the room, she was here to talk to just you. She was sitting down,…
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The Adventures of Madalene and Louisa
Here is a fun find that’s full of mommy connections of the CM kind. This book is just strange, charming, and full of whimsy.The Adventures of Madalene and Louisa is a delightful collection of quirky drawings by two Victorian girls, Madalene and Louisa Pasley while they were between the ages of 12 and 16 (during the 1850s). It begins with this – “When…
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The Real Work
Red-bellied woodpecker sighted on the first day of spring The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, And that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded…
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