“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Terrible Tuesday: Switching gears
Like a lot of homeschoolers, we don’t do a traditional summer break. But while we don’t stop our lessons completely, we do scale back and leave plenty of time for lazy hours by the pool and even a trip or two. So the general plan is a couple of hours of lessons and lots of lollygagging. […]
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Right, wrong, and certainty
From time to time, I ask myself this question: “What am I wrong about?” I have decided, for example, that I am wrong about insisting sentences not end with prepositions. This is a difficult, if not impossible, question to answer. Because if I knew what I was wrong about, I’d change my belief to the […]
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Surrounded by beauty
As I drove home from church, past wildflowers and longhorns and strip malls, I found myself singing this hymn. I love being able to get into nature, away from concrete and congestion, but that’s a special treat that happens only a few times throughout the year. I live in an urban area, in the close-in […]
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The founding principles of modern schooling
John Taylor Gatto explains the six purposes of modern schooling according to Alexander Inglis, for whom the Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education at Harvard is named. Gatto is a former New York City Teacher of the Year and crusader against our current compulsory institutional school system that arose around the turn of the 19th century. […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Jump start on June
May has five Fridays, and June will be full of extra travel, so I’m getting a head start on our June pieces. I love the hymn, “I love to tell the story.” It makes me think of small country churches and dusty hymnals. Hymnals should be a thing again. Bring back the hymnal! Down with […]
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Distracted
I have confiscated all the Legos. I’m pretty sure I got them all. There are so dang many that it’s possible I missed some. Legos, so my boys tell me, distract them from doing what I ask. So do balls and trucks and green grass and blue skies and siblings and anything not the task […]
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Phenomenal Woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Rain rain rain
Texas is in the middle of a prolonged drought, so all the rain is very welcome. Except when you leave your windows rolled down while going to the grocery store and come out to a downpour. That’s unfortunate. Soggy links! I have a dream. A backyard dream! Now I just need money, time, and labor […]
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Try to imagine
Sometimes we say to those who have lost and are hurting, “I can’t imagine.” I think that’s an unwise and potentially hurtful thing to say. We can’t empathize unless we try to imagine, try to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes. Is imagining and empathizing the same thing as the actual experience? Of course not. […]
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Empty Shelf: The Practice of the Presence of God
*This post contains affiliated links Four transcribed conversations and fifteen letters: if that was the record of your life, would it be sufficient? Would your be able to fill that space with anything worth remembering? Moreover, would there be enough wisdom in that brief space that all of Christendom would be quoting you almost 400 […]
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