In my Commonplace...

6/5/2012

"Intimacy is a dangerous thing. It comes in two flavors: pleasure and truth. The intimacy of pleasure is self-serving and exploitative. It takes from the other the most private of gifts for the sake of the self. It is the taking of the secret for the pleasure of retelling it; it is the taking of affection for the sake of satisfaction; it is the taking of the gift for the sake of being embellished; it is the taking of the other for the stature of the self." Joan Chittister

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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.

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
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In My Notebook...