“Our search must be for the grains of gold.” – Charlotte Mason, Ourselves – Our Souls and Bodies, Bk. 2…
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State of Wonder: 2015 Homewoods Gathering
She (wisdom) is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that…
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Communing Out Loud and Other Thoughts on Prayer
A Mother and Children By a Window at Dusk Viggo Pedersen (1854-1926) Is it possible that the mother…
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Laura’s First Composition
Funky ornament found in one of Charlotte Mason’s boxes at the Armitt in Ambleside It is always interesting to come…
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Like a Comet Going By – William Blake
lambs in Ambleside last spring Let Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ represent their standard in poetry. – Charlotte Mason Blake’s…
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Chief Knowledge
There are several ways by which the knowledge of God first comes to us; we may be struck by the…
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Time, Peace, and Creativity
I have been thinking about this little phrase, shared a few years ago as a quick answer to a question…
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Grapple Them to Thy Soul: Resources for Hamlet
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.- Polonius, from…
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Slow and Beautiful Work
“The earliest practice in writing proper for children of seven or eight should be, not letter writing or dictation, but…
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Simple Living in the New Year
“Wise men are feeling strongly that prudence requires of us, … to live simple lives, to avoid excesses, even if…
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Reader’s Journal 2014
People are naturally divided into those who read and think and those who do not read or think; and the…
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Advent and Awakening
We shared a lesson on the poet Eleanor Farjeon at our Awakening session yesterday. We finished the gathering by joining…
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