I have been reading Alan Jacobs’ excellent book, The Narnian, off and on for a year now. Actually, more off than on which is why I haven’t finished it. Don’t let that deter you, though, because it is really very good and very readable. Friday night, I had two and a half hours at basketball…
In the past month I’ve been thinking about Keeping and Not Keeping. Or perhaps rather, “Keepable” and “Not Keepable.” I am by nature a keeper. Mostly a keeper of things, I have many things that I’ve inherited or been given. There are a number of wedding gifts I can tell you today who gave them…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… the sun is rising. The clouds are rose pink and light orange and yellow. Lovely. I am thinking… about love as a verb; as a choice; as a means of bonding a people together. But neither the emotion nor the verb that has co-opted the Biblical meaning. I am thankful… for the faithful…
Before this week I would have written that I liked essentially everything about six weeks on, one week off routine. I found something I don’t like: the first week back. It is surprising how quickly good habits about doing lessons can go by the wayside with one week off. The week wasn’t terrible by any…
Karen Glass gets down to brass tacks in her chapter Choose You This Day, and the tacks fall right into place with what I considered about *revel* in February: Charlotte Mason’s conception of willing, or choosing, requires an object outside of self. No effort of choice is necessary to serve self–this we do naturally, and…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… there is a great deal of snow. I am thinking… about our next six weeks’ term. I am thankful… for a day all together yesterday. If worship must be canceled, at least we could spend the day together. I am wearing… exercise clothes; pilates to begin soon. I am creating… lists. I didn’t get…
So I lost track of days in February, and my post is coming on this first day of March. I generally try not to post on the Lord’s Day, but our snow day today gave me the opportunity to spend some time contemplating what I learned about *reveling* in February. Long-time readers here at ladydusk…
Our off week was eventful. Sunday the children got to go sledding. Only Monday did we stay home very much which gave me a chance to blog about how our first half-term of AmblesideOnline went. We had some big tents built. M-girl both cooked dinner and blogged about it. We had doctor and dentist appointments;…
M-girl has asked if on occasion she can write some posts for the blog. Who am I to say no? (Oh, her mommy and the owner of ladydusk) I won’t say no because I think it’s a grand idea! She’s 10 years old, loves to read, is excited about cooking once a week, loves words…
Karen Glass, in Consider This, traces the idea of literature – of grammar – in the Classical Tradition from the ancient Greeks through the Victorian age. Originally, the idea of literature had meant the necessity of reading in the Classical Languages in Latin and Greek. She shows how the idea of grammar evolved and changed…