Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
“You cannot learn to love art, unless you first love what art mirrors.” – John Ruskin The paintings of local artist David Strom are a familiar sight in our small town. So familiar are his works to our family that years ago, when we were viewing Monet’s haystacks at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, my son informed the docent…
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postcard postmarked 1919 and featuring our house on the right I have mentioned in the past about Charlotte Mason and her wise advice on parenting. I still consider some of her words to be the most thoughtful parenting guidelines in print. Recently, I have been reading more about her thoughts on authority and docility. She says that these two are fundamental but…
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Paperwhites! Thanks to dd for thinking of this last November. Today – a card with a beautiful picture of Croatia, a loved one in chemo, flowers in 10 degrees, basketball, influenza and an email asking me about more books for the upcoming Lenten season. I can always come up with book recommendations. These are books that are worthy living books…
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Let’s begin with a definition, shall we? According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of crank is “an annoyingly eccentric person; also : one who is overly enthusiastic about a particular subject or activity.” A crank is something Charlotte Mason spends a bit of time railing against and her complaint of this type of person is found throughout her curriculum. Sorry…
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I have always wanted to keep track of all the books I read over the course of a year. I only wish I started this, oh, about 40 years ago. This is a record of the books I read mainly at night when I retired for the day. It does not include the books I read for our school…
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Madonna and Child by Raphael 1505 “Every mother knows out of her own heart’s fulness what the Birth at Bethlehem means.” – Charlotte Mason So our Sunday, this Sunday before Christmas, was full of children. Since my baby is now nine years old, it sure is special to have friends’ little ones around – especially at Christmas time. We started…
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I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much that, while I cannot give, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take peace. The Gloom…
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“There is something about saying, ‘We always do this,’ which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar favorite food. Tradition is a good gift…
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