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In my Nature Notebook...

5/16/2022

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Winslow Homer, "Moonlight, Wood Island Light" Click image for 10 famous moon paintings.
Super Moon, Blood Moon, Flower Moon...wants so much attention it can even interrupt our sleep!
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In my Picture File...

3/23/2022

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"March Sun Pontoise" Pissarro 1875
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In my Nature Notebook...

3/8/2022

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March Winds caused these amazing  Kelvin-Hermholtz cloud formations yesterday.

"March winds act as they do because they come down from the still frigid Arctic and up from the steadily warming tropics.  Vast weather systems are marching across the land and when they meet, as they do here in the Northeast in March, strange things happen."  Hal Borland


Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing
Under the sky’s gray arch;
Smiling, I watch the shaken elm-boughs, knowing
It is the wind of March.
– John Greenleaf Whittier


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In my Music Notebook...

3/3/2022

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"if you'd dropped me a letter I'd a hired a band."
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In my Music Notebook...

2/22/2022

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In my Picture File...

2/18/2022

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"A February Morning at Moret-sur-Loing" 1881 Alfred Sisley
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In my Commonplace...

2/14/2022

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"I THINK that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States." 
- de Tocqueville
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In my Nature Notebook...

2/2/2022

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"Groundhog Day," Andrew Wyeth
Groundhog Day

"...Early tribesmen credited various animals with the ability to forecast weather. The Egyptians relied on bears.  Early Europeans turned to wolves for prophecies. In England they put their faith in  otters and badgers. Early English colonists in America, never skilled in identification, mistook woodchucks for badgers, which often were called groundhogs in England. The badger was the Candlemas forecaster in England, so the American marmot inherited the prophet's mantle. And just to round out the tangle of identities, the name 'woodchuck' came from the Algonquin wejac, which meant fisher, a cousin of the weasel." Hal Borland
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In my Commonplace...

1/19/2022

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A Sunday School started by Anna Eliza Hunt met here in the 1850s.
 "Miss Hunt was of sanguine temperament, and had a cultural mind and refined tastes, full of love and appreciation for the good, the true, and the beautiful, wherever she found them. She had a poetical insight, and her interpretation of life was full of imaginative charm. She had the highest trust in the mercy and goodness and love of God, and she loved the church and all its treasure of historic and idealistic beauty."
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Her tireless work eventually led to a Church building in 1879.
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In my Commonplace...

1/6/2022

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     "'What are you reading?' I couldn't help asking her.
Even in my hurry I was curious, as I always am, to see what book is in someone's hands, and when she showed me the book I felt as if it were a magnet and I were a paper clip tumbling toward it."  Lemony Snicket
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    "Ideas 
    ​won't keep; something must be done about them."

     - Alfred Whitehead

     

    A Charlotte Mason education leads to all kinds of ideas! Join me in keeping one or several of the notebooks she prescribed and discover the Science of Relations and the Art of Mindfulness.

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    Laurie

    "Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it." 
    --Charlotte Mason

    Virtual Life?

    A wee explanation: this website was created as a way to amplify the daily surprise of seeing glory in one small life.  The notebook entries represented here are all selected from things actually lived and noted on paper in an effort to live the full life British educator Charlotte Mason so ably championed.  ​ 

    In Appreciation
    Photos chosen are linked to their original posts in most cases because I have found something of value there and hope my readers will likewise find a helpful resource.  In the case of miss-attribution or if you desire your work not be linked, please let me know.

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