Just a brief but challenging quote from Charlotte Mason today, as relayed by her friend Elsie Kitching in In Memoriam. Continue Reading
Just a brief but challenging quote from Charlotte Mason today, as relayed by her friend Elsie Kitching in In Memoriam. Continue Reading
A quote from Sarah Mackenzie’s Teaching From Rest today, because sometimes I need to read this after scrolling through my Instagram feed. 😉 …figure out what drives you and then let your kids shine within the atmosphere you create. Trying to be something you’re not, trying hard to provide your kids with the education that… Continue Reading
Another nature-related quote today, from Alexander Graham Bell, as quoted in Tom L. Matthew’s photobiography, Always Inventing: The above photo was taken at the Arboretum at Penn State, where we spent the last Sunday afternoon of our summer road trip with friends. The water lilies were probably my favorite – some colors I’d never seen… Continue Reading
I shared this quote from Eric Sloane’s Weather Book on Instagram the other day, as the Charlotte Mason IRL community has Nature Lore as it’s theme this week. In a time when we can look up information like the weather forecast so quickly and easily, it’s good to be reminded of the need to learn… Continue Reading
Considering I have fifteen pages of quotes from Anthony Esolen’s Life Under Compulsion in my commonplace book (i.e. I loved it), I would be remiss if I did not share at least one during this series. 😉 This one is just lovely. ♥ Freedom is the movement of the heart to embrace what is good, or… Continue Reading
This passage is from Charlotte Mason’s School Education, but I think it is an encouragement – and challenge – to any parent, and perhaps especially to one (like me) who feels they have either failed in child training in the early years or have a particularly difficult child. Let us not despise the day of… Continue Reading
One more quote from Tony Reinke’s 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You, in which he comments on the importance of coming together in person with fellow Christians in this digital age, when we can be tempted to hide our true selves behind the online personas we project and avoid real-time, real-life interactions. We gather… Continue Reading
An Experiment in Criticism was, as is usual for Lewis, an excellent read – one I really should make a re-read. Of course, there is the famous “I become a thousand men and yet remain myself” quote, but I’ve been pondering this one, which I think is very relevant for parents of teens who may… Continue Reading
I know I’ve shared at least one of these quotes here before, but they still make me smile – and think – even though I’m not at all sure John Milton Gregory meant his to be funny. 😉 I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men… Continue Reading
I’m trying to schedule posts in advance this month when I’m inspired (and have time), but today I was rather glad I hadn’t when I read this lovely passage in Elizabeth Goudge’s Linnets & Valerians to the kids at lunchtime. The uncle of the four children in this book has agreed to look after them… Continue Reading