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" We choose between Ideas. ––It is well, however, to know what it is that we choose between. Things are only signs which represent ide...

In Charlotte Mason's third chapter on The Will , this often-quoted line appears: "The simple, rectified Will, what our Lord ca...

In the next chapter on  The Will , Charlotte Mason gets controversial on some side issues that we can quickly dispense with. Her ethnic m...

Today we begin the second of three major themes in Ourselves Book II : The Will. This business of understanding ourselves is, admittedly, ...

Hark! The herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King, Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!" ~~...

I'm feeling both lucky and blessed about the things that have come my way lately. I've said no a lot (it's inevitable), but the ...

My husband has a book out from the library titled Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies . Charlotte M...

O come, Thou Wisdom from on high And order all things, far and nigh To us the path of knowledge show And cause us in her ways to go ...

"The object of this little book is to introduce to themselves any who are not yet acquainted with their own worth..." (p. 108) ...

Is learning an act of self-interest, a means of merely "improving ourselves ?" Charlotte Mason says that what we're really loo...

"Greg McKeown, in his book Essentialism , says it this way: 'No one can take away your right to choose. You can’t even give it aw...

Let's move into Ourselves Book II, Section II: Conscience in the House of Mind. We're up to Chapter IX, if you're keeping trac...

Did you ever hear that really old anecdote about the boy (sometimes it's a husband) calling downstairs to his mother (or his wife) to ...

"...do we recognize that the proportion of Love must be preserved as duly as the proportions of Faith?" ( Ourselves, Book II,  p....

The Baby of the Nativity scene is newborn, small. But babies grow, and we need to see the Christ as not only increasingly "older,...

In a culture that has difficulty acknowledging the existence of sin, we may have trouble seeing the need of the Incarnation. That difficul...

In Volume 4, Book II, Part I, Section I, Chapter I (really), Charlotte Mason says that no Mansoul is left without the sense of ought .   I ...

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather shar...

Last thrift shift of the week, and the chance to do some purposeful shopping. Pair of bootcut Levi's jeans in good shape and right size...

About three years ago, I went "back to school" on getting dressed in the morning. The only thing I was sure of was that I wanted t...