In my Commonplace...

2/15/2013

"Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."

"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive--all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."

Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

4 Comments

Tammy Glaser link

2/16/2013 02:54:52 am

I think that hold true, not just for reading living books, but for nature study, picture study, composer study, poet study, handicrafts, and all the wide and varied things we do during the day!

Laurie

2/16/2013 10:44:28 am

yes!

bonnie buckingham

2/20/2013 11:26:33 am

HI Laurie............from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Peel Society?

Laurie

2/21/2013 02:04:08 am

The very same!

"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.

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