In a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, one of the characters quietly watches an elderly street woman sip a cup of coffee given to her and in that moment becomes..."aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation; and I realized that joy... breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic ...

It’s the end of summer. Kids gather to ring the last of ice cream carts and campfires, laze at the end of pond docks.And mothers, like breaking up through the surface of it all, breathe deeply, expanding lungs again with the stuff of living. Emerging from the murky depths, we tread water for a bit, getting our bearings: what landmarks have been passed and which lie ahead, where has one been and where is one ...

As we prepare for a new season of learning... (Possible links for our Morning Gathering... )Links to daily feed a brain, regardless of age...Everyday to savor Scripture... a new morsel of art... time in prayer for a different people group... tasting a new poem, a new word... considering a new bird, a new plant... chewing on what has happened on this globe in the last twenty-four hours... filling on music...Just a few moments every day. ...

She bought it for the view.Moving to town was hard; everyone who’s lived in places where you witness the sun rising and setting over earth’s rim knows. You still listen for gravel’s crackle under tires going down the lane. You ache to watch sky come close to land and breathe green life into her.Mama needed to still reach out and feel a bit of that country when she drove down her long lane stretching, drove ...

More on home education... For us, our guideposts through a day: ~Prayer, memorization, Bible Reading, hymn singing ~2 hours a day of Reading --especially before they are five ~Reading Living Books (history, science, geography, literature, poetry, art appreciation) (for lists of living books see here: Ambleside Online, 1000 Good Books, Real Learning Booklist) ~Bluedorn's Ten Things to Do before the age of Ten was formative for us as we began ~ readings happen in Circle ...