-
Recent Posts
- Scenes from 2023-24 classes September 15, 2024
- A Child’s Relations with his World July 28, 2024
- Carrying Aunt Karen Out July 8, 2024
- Love Day and Ash Wednesday February 14, 2024
- What you and your children are missing out on by not reading pagan myths February 10, 2024
- To Be Enchanted By Story November 11, 2023
- Kay’s Story, Rhyme, & Song Interview. 15 October 2023 October 16, 2023
- Art for Art’s Sake August 6, 2023
- Recent Stuff (Fall classes, Fellowship Retreat and maybe more) August 2, 2023
- Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome) May 25, 2023
- Plans for fall 2023 classes May 25, 2023
- Because Look May 7, 2023
- He Went to My School! April 29, 2023
- Lose Yourself, Find Yourself April 21, 2023
- It really is all about the Caring April 17, 2023
Tags
- caring
- character
- Charlotte Mason
- children are born persons
- commitment
- correction
- corruption
- discipline
- education is a science of relations
- fact-checking
- friendship
- God
- greed
- grief
- history
- honesty
- humility
- images
- imagination
- integrity
- Jack
- James
- Jesus
- keeping my sanity
- life is a mist
- love
- marriage
- metaphors
- mindlessness
- narration
- nobility
- Our Island Story
- reading metaphorically
- remembering
- security
- sentimentality
- socialism
- stories will save the world
- story
- trisomy-18
- truth
- Virginia Grace
- war
- wisdom
- zeal for learning
Categories
Read Jack’s Novel!
Tag Archives: life is a mist
And Grace Will Lead Us Home
On Thursday I watched the funeral for my friend Lynn Bruce, and today I watched her graveside service. On this day 17 years ago, also a Saturday, we had the graveside service and burial of our daughter Virginia Grace, who … Continue reading
Posted in My Personal History
Tagged grace, grief, life is a mist, mourning, shadow of things to come, Virginia Grace
Comments Off on And Grace Will Lead Us Home
2023 Word of the Year: FRIEND
This makes me mightily nervous, but there it is. It is an idea I’ve had on my heart for years and years, and after pondering for the last few days about a word for the year, and going back and … Continue reading
Posted in Character, My Personal History
Tagged courage, friendship, honesty, humility, introversion, life is a mist, meaning, my brother James, not your own, resolutions
Comments Off on 2023 Word of the Year: FRIEND
On the 16th Anniversary of our Daughter’s Birth: Grace meet Wendi, Wendi meet Grace
This post is sort of what I planned for this day of remembering Virginia Grace Pelham (February 3, 2006 ~ February 24, 2006), but with the death yesterday, February 1, of my friend Wendi Capehart, who was already a part … Continue reading
Posted in Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged all lives matter, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, gratitude, grief, honesty, i am pro-life, life is a mist, providence, trisomy-18, truth, Virginia Grace, wisdom
Comments Off on On the 16th Anniversary of our Daughter’s Birth: Grace meet Wendi, Wendi meet Grace
The Voice
Woke up thinking about this song this morning. Always feel sad about Karen Carpenter and what a loss to the vocal world when she died. But then again, thanks to recordings, her voice isn’t too far away. I was just … Continue reading