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…
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…
I really, really wanted a post about how to *revel* in our marriages for February, what with it posting on Valentine’s Day and all, and wow, did my friend Karen duBarry from www.livingunabridged.com knock it out of the park. Jason and I have a really great marriage, but can’t we all always learn more about…
Celeste asked us to share our favorite place of Commonplace Keeping. I love keeping a Commonplace for a couple of disparate reasons. First, I love keeping Words. If you’re new around here, you may not know that every Wednesday I post a linkup called “Wednesdays with Words.” Cindy Rollins graciously allowed me to take over…
This month I’ve learned a lot about reveling. Actually, I posted my initial post in December, almost at a whim … but it was an intuitive whim that this was right. Immediately, I started gathering ideas and thoughts came which confirmed my intuition (those INFJ types, we do so rely on our intuition) Almost immediately,…
I’m so excited to host my first guest post ever from my friend Candace. She has written a wonderfully helpful post on learning to love God’s Word. In her story I find that her patience, reliance, and trust in God were rewarded. I want to learn to revel now – my patience is in short…
FOR TODAY – CHAMPIONSHIP GAMEDAY Outside my window… Jason says it is icy and slushy, but if it gets colder it’ll really freeze hard. I am thinking… about our first day of lessons today. I think we’re all ready. The two older children both mentioned yesterday that they were excited about our new direction. The…
A New Year is on the cusp. A year in which I hope to revel in God, family, and vocation. To that end, I’ve begun Mystie’s Simplified Organization eCourse. One of the quotes she quotes is by Milton and it stopped me in my tracks. (I even tweeted it immediately when I heard it): Gratitude…