I love this passage from the Iliad, spoken during a standoff between Achilleus and Aineias, for the humorous and accurate simile, and for the sobering reminder of the need to tame my tongue (James 3). The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind, the range of words… Continue Reading
This passage from The Merchant of Venice didn’t make it into my commonplace book when I read it a few months ago, but it probably should have. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank. Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the… Continue Reading
It’s been an ugly day, weather-wise and otherwise. A beautiful and comforting Scripture passage is just what I need right now. Maybe you do too? Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”? Have you not known? Have… Continue Reading
Four weeks into the school year, and that stack of prereading for school has lost some of it’s freshness. 😉 I seem to want to read anything but what I’m “supposed” to read! But the effort of will it took to get myself caught up in How to Read Slowly was rewarded today, when I was… Continue Reading
Here’s a quote that I’ve shared before, but was reminded of it while listening to Brandy Vencel and Karen Glass talk about Charlotte Mason History yesterday. Karen quoted it near the end of the podcast, and when I looked it up in my copy of School Education, I found I had written “Little drops of… Continue Reading
I am attempting to read Six Easy Pieces by physicist Richard Feynman along with Miss A this year. So far the the several introductions have been interesting and readable enough, but it remains to be seen whether I can keep up when we start digging into the actual physics stuff. 😉 The book started out… Continue Reading
The woman who derives her principles from the Bible, and her amusements from intellectual sources, from the beauties of nature, and from active employment and exercise, will not pant for beholders. She is no clamorous beggar for the extorted alms of admiration. She lives on her own stock. She possesses the truest independence. She does… Continue Reading
Okay, so that title isn’t actually in today’s quote, but it’s the phrase that came to mind when I read this passage in Tony Reinke’s 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You. …our phones make it possible to share and consume a steady diet of information that is pointless beyond making us feel connected to others.… Continue Reading
On Saturday, I finished Shakespeare’s Richard III and Tony Reinke’s 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You. I didn’t think there would be much connection between those two books: I was trying to finish Richard III before reading/listening to it with the kids in Morning Time, and trying to finish Reinke’s book before the library’s… Continue Reading
Sharing a few verses from Psalm 138 today, which have been a comfort to me as I’ve been struggling with panic attacks (I’ll share more on that another day). On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased… Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life;… Continue Reading