If you even dare to whisper a breath in Charlotte Mason homeschooling circles, you’ll run up against six or seven different words or concepts repeatedly. Narration. Nature study. Born person. Living books. Mother culture. Many more that can almost make it seem like a foreign language. But today, I’m going …
The world around us is weary. (Aren’t we all some days?) But in the presence of Christ, “here is all alright.”
In the stillness of sick days where my normally active children put themselves to nap, and I wonder where they are and find them sleeping, I have had some time to think about the upcoming school year and whether or not I’m meeting my “year of less” intentions I set out …
Today, I was looking for a poem that I’d promised Jubilee I’d read to her (Wordsworth’s The Kitten and Falling Leaves, which I normally read from our Gyo Fujikawa book of poems) when I stumbled on this likewise autumnal poem. I read this first in the original version, and I …
Here’s a scrap of a poem that I found. I hope one day my sons will live this out in everyday life. They are so enamored with knights and duels and fighting and all of that heroism lately. The True Knight by Stephen Hawes, d. 1523 FOR knighthood is not …
