I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Please…
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The Art of Mindfulness
MINDFULNESS, n. Attention; regard; heedfulness. -Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary We began the LER talking about how mindful Miss Mason…
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Well-Timed Retreat
A period of group withdrawal for prayer, meditation, study, or instruction under a director. But Wisdom’s triumph is a well-tim’d…
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Safely to Arrive at Home
Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for…
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Cooperating and Conferences
Flowers blooming this week – finally! All our teaching of children should be given reverently, with the humble sense that…
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Sixth Annual Living Education Retreat
Every year for six years in a row my, friends and I have organized the Living Education Retreat. I am…
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Sphere of Influence
For those of you eager to read more about Charlotte Mason, here is something that will interest you. I just…
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Charlotte Mason Education Conference
Despite travel delays and wrong terminals, I made it to Canada! I had the privilege of sitting next to a…
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Rain, Passports and Gifts, Oh My!
So, with Porfiry away at classes all week, we were blessed with a deluge of epic proportions. Let’s just say…
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The PMEU?
“A community of earnest and high-minded people” is what J.P. Inman said about those in the Charlotte Mason College. I…
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Enigmas on the Prairie
The weather was great, the prairie wasn’t windy and things pretty much ran smoothly for our Living Education Retreat last…
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Classical? Constructivist? Core Knowledge? or Confused?
About three years ago, my family was talking about the classical education model and the three stages of the trivium…
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