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In my Gratitude Journal...

4/28/2014

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"Gratitude spreads his feast of joy and thanksgiving for gifts that come to him without any special thought of him on the part of the giver, who indeed may have gone from the world hundreds of years ago. Thus he says his grace for a delightful or helpful book, for a great picture, for a glorious day, for the face of a little child, for happy work, for pleasant places."  Charlotte M. Mason
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In my Commonplace...

4/15/2014

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PictureVictoria's self portrait.















"Things taste better in small houses."



                                                              HRH Queen Victoria

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In my Prayer Journal...

12/10/2013

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In my Gratitude Journal...

12/2/2013

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Tom Thomson, "Nocturne"

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In my Nature Notebook...

7/9/2013

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"As I muse here, it occurs to me that we are not sufficiently grateful for the great symphony of natural sound which insects add to the natural scene; indeed, we take it so much as a matter of course that it does not stir our fully conscious attention. But all those little fiddles in the grass, all those cricket pipes, those delicate flutes, are they not lovely beyond words when heard in midsummer on a moonlight night? I like, too, the movement they give to the landscape with their rushes, their strange comings and goings, and their hoverings with the sun's brilliance reflected in their wings."  -Henry Beston
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In my Gratitude Journal...

5/26/2013

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In my Gratitude Journal...

1/7/2013

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"Three hundred small pleasures make people happier than one magnificent one."


Daniel Gilbert, 
Professor of Psychology,
Harvard University


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In my Gratitude Journal...

12/21/2012

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"Don't order 'just a piece of toast' when eggs Benedict are on the menu. Don't come with a thimble when God has nothing less to give you than the ocean of himself.  Don't be contented with a 'nice' Christmas when Jesus says, 'It has pleased my Father to give you the Kingdom.' Pray, go to work, play Trivial Pursuit, eat banana bread, exchange presents, go caroling, feed the hungry, comfort the lonely, and do all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."  
Brennan Manning

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In my Gratitude Journal...

11/5/2012

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"...life is so much more than occasions, and its grand ordinariness must never go unsavored."  --Robert Farrar Capon
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In my Gratitude Journal

3/27/2012

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“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” 
― E.E. Cummings 
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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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    "Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it." 
    --Charlotte Mason

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    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.  ​ 

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