I’m going to ask you to endulge me once again by sharing some of my own words for Wednesdays with Words. My friend Amy Milcic, who blogs at Busy Boys Brigade, asked me to participate in her 20 Days of Homeschooling Encouragement Blog Party and my post goes live today. When she asked me, I…
I may have something later but not just yet. OK … now. I remembered there was a passage I wanted to use, but couldn’t remember where or what. When I picked up the read aloud for Whatchamacallit this morning, I remembered. We’re reading The Good Master by Kate Seredy. It is so good. Everyone always wants…
Attend! comes from Latin of stretch toward. I love that I can go to Google and type etymology attend and get this: So, Attend! has the idea of stretching toward … stretching one’s mind, one’s hand, one’s heart. It’s related to all those -tend words like attention (with our eyes and ears), tend (care for,…
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We sang ‘Come Thou Fount’ on Sunday. We sing it rather often, which is wonderful as it’s a favorite of mine. It has so many beautiful, quotable lines. If you google images for “Bind my Wandering Heart” and “Prone to Wander” there are oodles of them. (I totally chose oodles to go with google.) But…
I’ve made some lovely headway on To Kill a Mockingbird and, although I suspect I’m not to the main part of the story yet, I’m enjoying it immensely. Imagine my surprise when I learned that Atticus Finch was homeschooled: “I could only look around me: Atticus and my uncle, who went to school at home,…
You know how sometimes when you start considering an ideas, it starts to show up in all sorts of places. What is the place of generalization as we educate our children in the 21st Century? What is the place of specialization? So many educators – of the homeschool and school variety – are enamored by…
I’ve never read To Kill a Mockingbird. I started it Friday night after buying it on First Friday. I didn’t get far, but I loved what I started and have been thinking about it. Waiting for dinner, we all have new books … The first paragraph spoke to me, from the rich language to the…
Jason and I are reading Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture together. This is a book I ordered for one of Cindy Rollins’s book club lo these many years ago but never read. I finally got it into my head that I really ought to did want to read it and the most likely…