Announcing the Seventh Annual Living Education Retreat! The theme this year is “Pursuit and Passion: Charlotte Mason and Science”. A rich, unique experience awaits attendees in August with 2 full days and 5 shared meals. You can read all the details in the flyer below. Let me know if you have any questions. I’d love for you to join us….
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Easter Reads
I’ve been meaning to put up a post about our favorite Easter books and an email from Erika nudged me to get it done sooner than later. So now you have plenty of time to get some of these for this year! From Mousekin’s Easter Basket by Edna Miller This first little book is more about spring than the actual Easter…
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Intellectual Culture – Poetry
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. – Goethe Sir Gawain and The Green Knight from the original manuscript Poetry takes up such a small…
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A Valentine
From Rosemary For Remembrance by Tasha Tudor Happy Valentine’s Day, dear friends! We will be reading this family favorite today – St. Valentine. From joy to joy, Nancy
Rhymes with Australia
Ian Serraillier (1912-1994) We are presently enjoying a few titles by Ian Serraillier (1912-1994). A schoolmaster and poet from London, Serraillier is well known for his retellings of Greek legends, folk tales, fairy tales, and Shakespeare. His writing is crisp, clear, and sophisticated. I like how he explains the pronunciation of his name: “My name, Serraillier, is pronounced: SER (as in serpent),…
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A Valentine from Christina
Christina and her mother Frances (photograph by Lewis Carroll) It is said that the mother of the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti once remarked, “I have never received a valentine from anyone.” Christina responded by not only giving her mother a valentine, but with it, an original poem. Annually. For some 40 years. The never-married Christina was very close to her mother and was rarely…
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Fertile Observations and Family Diaries
It is possible to see the more in winter, because the things to be seen do not crowd each other out. – Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1 p. 86 Edith Holden, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady We are having a mild winter here in Minnesota – so far. Charlotte Mason has some common-sense advice from her Vol. 1, Home…
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Shakespeare and the Starlings
Last fall, we had a huge flock of strange birds take over our feeders for one day. Many of them banged into our windows and one even fell to the ground, lifeless. We identified the rowdy visitors as starlings and we haven’t seen them in our yard since. Here’s what the intruders looked like. Not very pretty. I recently learned…
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Dear Stephanie – A Word About Attention
paying close attention Nancy, I have a question for you and your readers. How would you go about teaching older children the habit of attention when they have not been previously trained this way? I have a lot of reasons that I failed in this, one of which is that I made lessons too long and arduous and our school feels overwhelming…
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