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March 2, 2022                                       Day 1

3/2/2022

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Fat Tuesday is so yesterday.  
Next stop: "thin places"and "thick" lives!

One Hundred Days of Keeping begins again today.
Have you found a specific time of day to entertain your notebook guest?   I'm inviting mine to my morning routine.
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February 23, 2022

2/23/2022

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It's not about the notebook. It's about using it.  

Whether you are tech-ed out and subtracting something for your Lenten practice, or distracted and longing to add some focused attention ...why not try some paper postures? #100daysofkeeping.  You'll be in good company!  We start in one week -The Wednesday of Ashes.  Especially this year, let's choose something small and easy to do each day, something that especially rests us.  I am asking myself, "what do I need and want more of?"
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February 16, 2022

2/16/2022

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"Then swing your window open,
the one with the fresh air 
and good eastern light,
and watch for wings, edges,
new beginnings."  Monique Duval


One Hundred Days of Keeping starts afresh Ash Wednesday (March 2, 2022).  Who is ready for light and air and new beginnings?   
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May 26, 2021.                                      Day 99

5/26/2021

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That's One Hundred Days of Keeping for this year! Sometime this week let's give ourselves the gift of a block of  time with a pencil and paper to notice what has been seeded.  We may be surprised once we start writing:  How did you fare in your keeping?  How many entries did you make?  Did you establish a keeping cadence?  What do you see about the days you missed? What do you notice about this particular notebook that you hadn't before?  What do you notice about yourself?  Can you point to any emotions or recurring thoughts coming from our practice?  Is there a pattern emerging in the "thoughts that burn?" Is there anything more vital to you since the beginning of this practice? (as in "forms of vitality?") Are you alive to anything new?  Do you have new thoughts about your students or your classroom?  If you like, share below or on Instagram #100daysofkeeping. If you only participated with your desire, why not make some notes about next year!
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May 19, 2021                                        Day 92

5/19/2021

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We're into the final stretch! Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost and after that comes Ordinary Time and the end of our 100 day journey for this year.  May our celebrations find our keeping  an ordinary part of each day and us more convinced than ever with Charlotte Mason that every moment is extra-ordinary in this "Redeemed world." 
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May 12, 2021                                        Day 85

5/12/2021

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This arrived in my reading this week.  I am reminded of why I am a keeper  -  that every guild has its practice and must practice its practice.   Charlotte Mason teachers aspire to look.  Hard.  
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May 5                                                    Day 78

5/5/2021

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 Happy C​inco de Mayo! How are your keeping muscles?  Do you feel you're running up Heartbreak Hill?  You are not alone!  This last stretch can be difficult but can also reveal so much about our notebook practice and our students'.  I have (re) learned that I have to make my notebook commitment very specific  and simple as general ideas mean more decisions in my day which usually means not making an entry.  A habitual time and place also make showing up more likely. Choosing the right materials matters; one keeper this week realized that the quality of her notebook paper was putting her off.  (been there!)  It's all good to know.  It all helps us in the classroom.  This week also held May Day.  I was distracted by all the notebooks  I am not paying attention to right now by a wee Tussie-Mussie. Nature Notebook of course, Book of Firsts...the history of May Day in the Book of Centuries,  How to make one in Enquire Within... Poetry Notebook, Commonplace...?  Maybe you are distracted by grief or fatigue - the Pandemic is still making it  hard to concentrate and messing with our routines.  Whatever the  challenges, facing the notebook each day is formative.  What do you think?
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April 28, 2021                                       Day 71

4/28/2021

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We've been at this ten weeks!  Have you noticed that the more you notice the more there is to notice?  Have you felt that even if your notebook has stayed closed some of the days, the act of assenting to One Hundred Days of Keeping invites the conversation to continue whether we feel like it or not ? (Can a notebook actually nag?) Charlotte Mason claims that ideas have "ancestors and progeny" (grandparents and children).  Just like this dandelion, closed tight for the rain, doesn't mean nothing is going on, keepers come to see ideas will inevitably blow wherever the Spirit moves.  May the keeping spread like dandelions!  It's never too late to start.
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April 21, 2021                                      Day 64

4/21/2021

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Snow in April can feel a little off kilter!  I had a couple of days this week where missing one part of my daily routine meant missing another part...and so on.  How about you? The beautiful irony is my Book of Firsts, wherein I did eventulally manage to record the offending precipitation, let me know that it snowed the same day last year.  "Always we begin again!"   My notebooks keep me keeping!  
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April 14, 2021                                       Day 57

4/14/2021

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Does keeping one notebook lead to keeping others?  What to do with all this glory - Book of Firsts, Nature Notebook,  Poetry Notebook???  One hundred days with just one makes me familiar with all that is particular to it but also stirs a longing to explore the character of the others.  How about you?  
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    "Thus, I propose that the middle of February remind CM admirers
    ​everywhere to prepare to celebrate "the science of relations" with

    ​One Hundred Days of Keeping -- notebooks that is." 
    ​

    Laurie Bestvater

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    Then swing your window open,
    the one with the fresh air
    and good eastern light,

    and watch for wings, edges,
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     Monique Duval

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