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Studying to be Quiet

"You watch the teacher and
are hardly aware that he is doing anything."

Charlotte Mason

"I realize the impossible enormity of Charlotte Mason's claim. But there it is: 'God the Holy Spirit is Himself the Supreme Educator, dealing with each of us severally in the things we call sacred and those we call secular.' God. Always speaking. All subjects. It reminds me of the old children’s joke: 'how do you know when there has been an elephant in your fridge? You see his footprints in the butter, silly.' Theologian Henri Nouwen writes that while very few of us ever hear an audible voice of God or experience, like the saints, an angelic presence, or can point to something as life-changing as Mason’s Great Recognition, 'God will let himself be suspected.' Wouldn’t we then, want to try to keep track of those suspicions?"

Find here a smidge of Wordsworth, some wonky liturgical math and a glimpse of one notebook keeper’s keeping in an invigorating, “as you go” primer of Mason’s world-reading method and a practical meditation on “that one of the mysteries we call education.”

$14.00 USD

The Living Page

"We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life."

Charlotte Mason

"Composition books and blank journals are readily available at every big box and corner store, available so inexpensively as to be common and ironic as we reach that digital dominion, the projected 'paperless culture.' Shall we despair the future of the notebook? Is the practice an anachronism in an age where one's thoughts and pictures, doings and strivings are so easily recorded on a smartphone or blog, and students in even the youngest classrooms are handed electronic tablets with textbooks loaded and worksheets at the ready? Or is there something indispensable in the keeping of notebooks without which human beings would be the poorer?" The Living Page invites the reader to take a closer look in the timeless company of 19th century educator, Charlotte Mason.
$15.00 USD

Book of Centuries

Basic black $37.00 USD
or elegantly covered in Bonded Leather $42.00 USD
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Each 8.5 x 11 hardcover book with durable hand-sewn binding similar to a field sketchbook is specially made by artisan brothers in the family workshop. The cloth cover is impregnated with acrylic making this book virtually indestructible. Pages are of beautiful ivory paper chosen to take ink well but not bleed through. The chart pages are printed in black with a color title page and embossed spine. The book lies open well on the desk. Uses designations BCE and CE. Handmade in the USA.

Pilot Razor V Pen

Extra Fine Black Pen. Perfect for sketching in the Book of Centuries.
$2.50 USD each

Beaded Bookmark

Mark your place and distinguish your Book of Centuries from others on the shelf. Each handmade bookmark is unique.
Fits most books but specially designed for The Book of Centuries.
$6.00 USD each

Blackwing Pencil