hollyhocks in Ontario, Canada from seeds given 2 years ago in Windom, MN I just returned from a nourishing trip…
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Continually Seeking – Notes from the 2015 Living Education Retreat
Another LER has come and gone. This year was at a special location (Villa Maria Retreat Center) because it was…
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Rest, A Good Servant (Before and After Pics)
Before While I was out on a walk early in the morning a few days before Mother’s Day, I spotted…
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A World Pregnant with Ideas
“Life is as a book whose best pages are as yet uncut, and a growing interest holds us, filling the…
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Seek the Grains of Gold, Not the Dross
“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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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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Charlotte Mason, TSA, and Boy Scouts
Rarely do I go anywhere and not run into problems while traveling. Lost passport? Check. Cancelled flights? Check. Sleeping in…
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Living Education Retreat and Shalom
While we were at Shalom Hill Farm last weekend for the Living Education Retreat, I shared some thoughts about the…
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Winter Weather
This is some of what I’m reading right now. DH heard the call of a cardinal last week, a subtle…
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Cozy Winter Reading List from Sioux Falls, SD
I read this from a favorite poetry anthology The Year Around – Poems for Children by Hazeltine and Smith I…
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Love Affairs in Education or The Thing is the Thing
midnight at the LER – see the big dipper? (Matthew Baerbock – photo) Are you busy planning your school year?…
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