If you haven’t read the last BOC post I did, you can find it here. Last week we had our Monthly Meeting on the topic of The Book of Centuries and I invited Shannon, a wonderful friend we met through the AO Yahoo groups. She attended one of our meetings a while back – drove […]
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I had hoped to post here about our monthly meeting topic of Rigor. Unfortunately, we were hit by the stomach flu and missed the discussion, which I heard was wonderful. We also had a dead rat, discovered by its lovely stench, that had been festering in the wall behind our downstairs bathroom removed this week.
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His thoughts are wandering on forbidden pleasure, to the hindrance of his work; he pulls himself up, and deliberately fixes his attention on those incentives which have most power to make him work, the leisure and pleasure which follow honest labour, the duty which binds him to the fulfilling of his task. His thoughts run
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This was my first year attending the Childlight Conference. It was an amazing experience and there is much to tell, but for this post, I must tell you some of what Carroll Smith said on Thursday morning in discussing A Framework for a Mason Curriculum. I am hoping they will make the mp3 available immediately
At our local CM meeting this month we discussed Self Education, which Charlotte Mason wrote about in the first chapter of Vol. 6. For the sake of brevity, really, I will try, I will highlight a few of my favorite quotes and say just a few things: The gist of it, I believe, is that
The topic at our recent Charlotte Mason meeting was Art and I thought I’d share some CM thoughts for anyone that may not have been able to attend. It’s lengthy, but worth the read, so if you don’t have time now, come back later with a cup of tea and enjoy! The Grand Canal, Venice
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