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What Is Fire In the Bones?
Like religion, education is nothing, or it is everything—a consuming fire in the bones. –Charlotte Mason, Formation of Character There are moments when a mother senses that something essential has slipped...
What Is Fire In the Bones?
Like religion, education is nothing, or it is everything—a consuming fire in the bones. –Charlotte Mason, Formation of Character There are moments when a mother senses that something essential has slipped...
The Wisdom of Short Lessons
In the early days of homeschooling, I knew what Charlotte Mason said about short lessons. I had read it. I could have quoted it. But I had also grown up...
The Wisdom of Short Lessons
In the early days of homeschooling, I knew what Charlotte Mason said about short lessons. I had read it. I could have quoted it. But I had also grown up...
Children Are Necessary to Christmas Joy
Children are necessary to Christmas Joy … it takes the presence of children to help us to realize the idea of the Eternal Child. The Dayspring is with the children,...
Children Are Necessary to Christmas Joy
Children are necessary to Christmas Joy … it takes the presence of children to help us to realize the idea of the Eternal Child. The Dayspring is with the children,...
The Moral imagination and the Christmas Rose
If you read my Morning Basket note today, you know I’ve been thinking about the moral imagination and the quiet power of story to shape our hearts. The Legend of...
The Moral imagination and the Christmas Rose
If you read my Morning Basket note today, you know I’ve been thinking about the moral imagination and the quiet power of story to shape our hearts. The Legend of...
Bringing the Light of Advent Into Our Homeschool
Every good gift of the spiritual life comes to us by the way of attention. As Advent begins this line from Ourselves (Vol. 4) means even more to me...
Bringing the Light of Advent Into Our Homeschool
Every good gift of the spiritual life comes to us by the way of attention. As Advent begins this line from Ourselves (Vol. 4) means even more to me...
The Magic of Allowing
There is a magic that happens when a mother simply allows—allows a child to follow a question a little further, allows a conversation to bloom, allows learning to unfold in its...
The Magic of Allowing
There is a magic that happens when a mother simply allows—allows a child to follow a question a little further, allows a conversation to bloom, allows learning to unfold in its...