FOR TODAY Outside my window… it’s been a drizzly day. I am thinking… about blogging, purposes, and what I’m doing. I am thankful… for friends who kicked me into gear. In the kitchen… the children are getting lunch together. I am wearing… shorts and a flowery purple top. I am creating… assignment sheets for my kids…
My, it has been a long foggy road since I last regularly posted. Now, it is time to shine a light through the mental mistiness and return to regular life. I’ve been not blogging for a couple of reasons. First, I blog for myself and for my family. It is a record of our goings…
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The seven liberal arts were in any case never intended to constitute the whole of education. They were embedded in a broader tradition of paideia or human formation, which included ‘gymnastics’ for the education of the body and ‘music’ for the education of the soul … The full range of subjects studied would include practical…
Cindy is always coming up with good things for us to read. I don’t always follow through on reading what she does, but I like attending her classes for homeschoolers. What a great mentor! She’s going to be reading Beauty in the Word this spring and I’ve decided to try again (follow her link, I…
I’m reading C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. More slowly than it deserves, because it is very good and engrossing when I get going. It sat on my headboard for more than a year; I was quite scared of it. I’m finding it very, very readable though. Two short, yet loaded quotes I’ve been considering…
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Library. This was one of the only narratives set in India that I could find for my 9 year old reader. I wanted to pre-read it because it was shelved in the YA section at the library (Yikes! She can’t be that old!! I’m…
I enjoyed reading That Hideous Strength. The evil was really evil: The NICE was the first-fruits of that constructive fusion between the state and the laboratory on which so many thoughtful people base their hopes of a better world. It was to be free from almost all the tiresome restraints—“red tape” was the word its…