Girl in a Hammock, Winslow Homer, 1873 It should be – a rest, that is. It is a change from the normal school routine. We sleep later, stay up later, read and play much more. While I’ve been refreshed and enjoyed things unique to summer, it hasn’t been very slow. A graduation and then this upcoming wedding, not to mention…
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Lovers of Liberty
From joy to joy, Nancy
A New Way to Listen – Commonplacing for the Little People
Just a delicious new recipe Marit made – a summer raspberry cake. Are you looking to get your kids started with commonplacing this fall? Last year I implemented an idea for my children to start this habit and it worked so well, I want to share it with you. Perhaps you can find some ideas here to help your children…
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Knife Wielding Strangers or Mom’s Nature Study
For who has despised the day of small things? – Zechariah 4:10 So, this day started out like so many others. I’m walking by the woods near the school at 5:45 a.m. and I see a familiar sight – strangers quickly parking their cars and entering the woods with knives! I tell myself, “Today I will solve this mystery.” a…
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Imagination – Cultivate Your Capacities for Amazement
Cultivate your capacities for amazement – you won’t worship without it. There are a lot of boring worship services in the world filled with people who have killed their capacities for amazement by watching tv hour after hour after hour so that the only thing that excites them is the imbecility of sitcoms and they have zero capacity to be…
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The Hive
Let us try, however imperfectly, to make education a science of relationships––in other words, try in one subject or another to let the children work upon living ideas. In this field small efforts are honoured with great rewards, and we perceive that the education we are giving exceeds all that we intended or imagined. – Charlotte Mason, 3.163 It has been…
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A Pentecost of Finches
A.M. Yellow flames flutter about the feeder: A Pentecost of finches. -Robert Siegel I think I have a new favorite collective noun – Pentecost of finches. Into my commonplace it goes! The picture shows eggs laid by a new couple that just moved back into our fern on the porch. They are house finches and return every year to choose…
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Sweet the Mother-Walk, But Perilous!
If there is anyone in the world whom we should not have to deceive, who is most likely to know us for what we are and love us anyway, who will never prefer complexity of thought and expression to simplicity and directness of feeling, who is so interested in us that we do not have to make our letters “interesting” and consequently, perhaps, false…
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This Fetish of Progress
sweet find from local antique store We had our final PMEU meeting of the school year, despite severe thunderstorms. I spoke on the high school years for those wishing to implement or continue on with the living methods of Charlotte Mason. We talked about progress and our culture’s obsession with doing, doing, doing for grades or admissions or whatever. Busyness…
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