Keeping a Book of Centuries
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In my Picture File...

2/10/2021

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"Mum Said," Gary Bunt
  As we wait for vaccines this sustaining sort of painter...
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In my Picture File...

1/13/2021

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Study, "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel," Delacroix
 Keeping Epiphany - Stars, Roads and Angels
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In my Picture File...

7/17/2020

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A.J. Casson Anglican Church at Magnetawan. 1933
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A.J. Casson Anglican Church at Magnetawan. 1932 Nothing wrong with doing a thing more than once!
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In my Poetry Notebook...

11/13/2019

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painting by Maude Lewis
​The Faces of Deer
by Mary Oliver
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When for too long I don't go deep enough
into the woods to see them, they begin to
enter my dreams. Yes, there they are, in the
pinewoods of my inner life. I want to live a life
full of modesty and praise. Each hoof of each
animal makes the sign of a heart as it touches
then lifts away from the ground. Unless you
believe that heaven is very near, how will you
find it? Their eyes are pools in which one
would be content, on any summer afternoon,
to swim away through the door of the world.
Then, love and its blessing. Then: heaven.
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In my Commonplace...

10/12/2019

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Vincent Van Gogh, Mulberry Tree, 1889


​And Now It's October

"the golden hour of the clock of the year. Everything that can run to fruit has already done so: round apples, oval plums, bottom-heavy pears, black walnuts and hickory nuts annealed in their shells, the woodchuck with his overcoat of fat."


- Barbara Crooker, Small Rain
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In my picture file...

7/15/2019

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"Blue Window" Carole Rabe
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In my Book of Firsts...

6/20/2019

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Lily Pond, Matunuck, Rhode Island by Anna Mary Richards Brewster (can you see the elderberries?)
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In my Picture File...

6/9/2018

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"Three Fisher Girls" Winslow Homer
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In my Picture File...

1/15/2018

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"January Thaw, Edge of Town" Lawren Harris 1921
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In my Music Notebook...

12/19/2017

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Lawren Harris 1923, "From the North Shore, Lake Superior
WE COME
by Steve Bell
Our hearts are empty without You

Barren and cold
But for the bold
Hope that You Yourself
Planted within
In the mighty name of God
In the saving name of Jesus
In the strong name of the Spirit
We come
We cry
We watch
We wait
We look
We long for you
Sometimes we long for the morning
For a refrain
From etchings in pain
Yet our loneliness
Draws us to You
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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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