See the beautiful woman front and center, seated with legs crossed? That’s my mama. She was surprised by her colleagues last week with a show of support for her current battle with breast cancer. A woman strong in faith who carries most burdens quietly, it has been a joy to see not only the courageous […]
Should The Writer Write?
(The comments on this post are excellent and profound. They bless me again, years later, and offer a better answer than my own post to the question “Should The Writer Write?”) When these 31 days of writing have ended I will do a follow-up post about what I’ve learned–and I have been learning. But I want […]
Sand: thoughts on change and how we grow
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. – William Blake My heart has been broken a dozen times this evening; broken, restored, broken again. The heavy things of life laid anchor, pulling my self-ship to […]
Nature Study
Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I have been having a good week. How has your week been doing? Although, it has been a really hard week with school and today I did not have much to do of school work but we played outside for a long while. We went to the Wildlife Refuge and, […]
A Few Thoughts
1. This post at Copperlight Wood. Read it. 2. The Ambleside community. I am continually blown away by their graciousness and generosity. Each time I visit the robust online forum, or read one of the many blogs by Ambleside users, I come away blessed and informed. These women have helped shape not only my homeschooling but also my life […]
The Material
I feel intensely aware of the material these days. The sheer physicality of life in all its shapes and forms catches at my eye and I am continually astounded that we exist. At this moment, cumulus clouds drift just beyond my window and there is such shape in them, like cotton candy with the […]
How We Do: School Schedules, part 2 (Ambleside Online)
Last Sunday I showed you our weekly school schedules; today I’d like to give you some follow up pictures as well as an explanation of how these schedules work for us. If you look below, you will notice that I divide each child’s schedule into five categories, the headings begin rather self-explanatory. Daily Alone: The majority of these […]
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