“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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People are people
I know that sounds very obvious, but I’ve been thinking a great deal (for a number of different reasons and in different circumstances) about Charlotte Mason’s wonderful observations, “Children are born people.” My reading today in A Year with C.S. Lewis(af) is from one of my favorite essays (in my favorite collection of essays) […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Riotous
Our final composer for this academic year is Igor Stravinsky. Most of us are familiar with Stravinsky from Fantasia (the dinosaurs) and Fantasia 2000 (the forest fire.) Ironically for a piece of music most of us associate with a Disney movie, the Rite of Spring famously caused a riot when it was first performed in […]
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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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Fine Arts Friday: Prepare for a show
Tonight is the first every viewing of the Camelopardalids meteor shower. Ironically, the shower we (hope) to see tonight is debris from the comet 100 years ago. Science is awesome. Since this is a new shower, astronomers aren’t sure exactly what to expect, but some people say it could rival the Perseids, which […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Naturalists & Scolds
This post is a little ranty, which isn’t normally what I do for Fine Arts Friday, but it has to be said! Also, this post contains affiliated links. Sprite has had an affinity for sharks for as long as she’s known of their existence. When she was about eight, we had this conversation on the […]
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Fine Arts Friday: “All things seem possible in May.”
This post contains affiliated links. May is upon us, and for Texans, that really means summer — bearable and mild summer — but summer nonetheless. Yes, I realize the calendar says “spring,” but 90 degree days says “grab a glass of ice tea, it’s summer.” I wish our local pool would acquiesce to that reality […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Nature, studied.
My birthday gift was a camping trip. Unfortunately, conflicts made it a short overnight trip rather than the two days we wanted. Still, it was a wonderful time. We went up to Cooper Lake State Park near Sulphur Springs. It’s beautiful country and, most importantly for me, far enough away from the city that you […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Phoning it in
A little art: A little music. (Mark O’Connor is our composer this term. I like him a lot. Sorry, that’s all you’re going to get on him.) Infrequent occurrence of erectile dysfunction is common in men of all ages. appalachianmagazine.com viagra on line purchase The manufacture has to be sure that they take the generic […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Too much of a good thing
Our artist for this term is Edouard Manet. Here’s a good short kid’s bio of Manet and the list of suggested works from Ambleside. (We flipped terms two and three to accompany our history topics.) I’m not going to talk a lot about Manet, except to say I like him a lot and because he […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Being a fledgling naturalist
I’ve written previously that nature studies intimidate me. It’s not that nature intimidates me; I enjoy being in nature — even when nature is a cottonmouth snake. Okay, I don’t necessarily enjoy run-ins with snakes, but it’s interesting! No, my intimidation comes from my lack of knowledge about flora and fauna. I grew up in West […]
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