One cannot embrace the Charlotte Mason philosophy for any length of time before it spills over into other areas of…
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Conversazione 2017 – Simplicity (with audios)
Sandro Botticelli’s Fortitude Conversazione is an Italian word. It is defined as a scholarly or formal gathering where something related…
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Lesson Notes: Ekphrastic Poetry
The Veteran in a New Field by Ted Kooser A lone man scything wheat His back is turned to us,…
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Winter Thoughts
Miss Mason extolling the virtues of the Humanities We talked at our last Living Education Lesson about virtue and how…
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How I Talk to God
Coffee in one hand leaning in to share, listen: How I talk to God. “Momma, you’re special.” Three-year-old touches my…
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All the World’s a Wonder-ball
One of the things I love about this whole living education thing is that everyday I get to learn and…
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Made Happy By Simple Things
Dicentra spectabilis A sure sign of spring around here is when the airy bushes of bleeding hearts appear. I have…
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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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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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The Silver Answer – Another Reason
For us,… whatever ’s undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done. Grief may be joy misunderstood: Only the Good discerns…
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Summer Ephemera
clematis in the morning I am slowly preparing my heart and mind for next week’s Living Education Retreat. This brings…
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Seeing and Storing
It would be difficult to overrate this habit of seeing and storing as a means of after-solace and refreshment….
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