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In my Nature Notebook...

8/2/2020

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Nothing the matter with this baby seal; he's just resting.  There were three police officers making sure he had wide berth at North Hampton Beach early this morning. Swimming in the sea is hard work! 
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In my Gratitude Journal...

1/22/2015

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"Do not let your head run upon that which is none of your own, but pick out some of the best of your circumstances, and consider how eagerly you would wish for them if they were not in your possession."  -Marcus Aurelius via Charlotte Mason



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In my Gratitude Journal...

1/14/2015

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EVIL                                                                             GOOD                                                                                  

I am cast upon a horrible desolate                      But I am alive, and not drowned,
island, void of all hope of recovery.                     as all my ship's company was.

I am singled out and separated,                            But I am singled out, too from all
as it were, from all the world to be                       the ship's crew to be spared from 
miserable.                                                                   death: and He that miraculously saved
                                                                                       me from death can deliver me from
                                                                                       this condition.

I am divided from mankind, a                                But I am not starved and perishing on
solitaire, one banished from human                     a barren place, affording no sustenance.
society.

I have no clothes to cover me.                                But I am in a hot climate, where if I 
                                                                                        had clothes I could hardly wear
                                                                                        them.

I am without defense or                                           But I am cast on an island, where I 
means to resist any violence of                               see no wild beasts to hurt me, as I
man or beast.                                                               saw on the coast of Africa. And what 
                                                                                        if I had been shipwrecked there?

I have no soul to speak to, or                                   But God wonderfully sent the ship in 
relieve me.                                                                    near enough to the shore that I have
                                                                                         gotten out so many necessary things
                                                                                         as will either supply my wants, or
                                                                                         enable me to supply myself even
                                                                                           as long as I live.
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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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"Things taste better in small houses."       HRH Queen Victoria
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Victoria's self portrait.
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In my Gratitude Journal...

4/3/2014

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"Virtue seen from below looks like nothing but sheer loss."  
Iris Murdoch

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In my Gratitude Journal...

1/8/2014

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"Into the fabric of miracles he interwove even greater miracles." 

                                                                  -Saint Proclus, Bishop of Constantinople
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In my Prayer Journal...

12/10/2013

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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."  
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-Henry Beston
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In my Gratitude Journal...

5/26/2013

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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

    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.  ​ 

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    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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