Good GKC Quote

We make our friends;
We make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door
neighbor.


Heretics by
Chesterton

Favorite Read Alouds

Giving a workshop at this
Charlotte Mason conference
on Thursday. Any ones that you
have loved and had to read over
and over again?

Thanks!




"We don't think much when we don't
know much. But we can wonder!
From now until tomorrow morning
when you come to school again, will
you do that? Will you wonder why and
wonder why? Will you wonder why
storks don't come to Shora to build their
nests on the roofs, the way they do in the
villages around? For sometimes when
we wonder , we can make things begin
to happen."

"If you'll do that -- then school is out right
now!"

Last paragraphs to first chapter of
The Wheel on the School by Meindert
DeJong

Ransom Fellowship

Just got Toad Hall in the mail
yesterday. Good news from
Margie Haack. She has a blog!
She writes:

: We discussed blogging for a
long time before I finally entered
the sphere for conversation. I think
if we recognize its limits, it doesn't
have to be shallow or completely
self-absorbed. Or full of lunatic
ravings. ( which, okay, I'm prone to)
Blogs have a voice that speaks grace
into life. I feel challenged and
inadequate for this , but what on earth
doesn't extract a toll from us? Pray for
the opportunities we have to connect
with and to love the younger
generation with the gospel."

Her blog is here.
Margie will bring you delight and
some laughter. There are some
blogs from Calvin's Writer's of the
Faith that she attended in April.

One of my favorite paintings

I have lots , but this is
AT THE FLORIST, by
Childe Hassam. We took
a side trip one summer to
go see it in Norfolk, VA at
the Chrysler Museum. Worth
the whole trip!

I Capture the Castle

This is where I was last night,
discussing this wonderful book.
My dear friend , whose blog I just
sent you to, takes photos. She had
the camera. Another dear friend
found "castle" mugs! My , what
a fun time at a coffee shop! What
was amazing is how fast those girls
read the book and then we met. Do
you know how hard it is to get
people together? And this just happened
within two weeks!



from the book:

"I don't intend to let myself become
the kind of author who can only work
in seclusion--- after all, Jane Austen wrote
in the sitting room and merely covered up
her work when a visitor called( but I bet
she thought a thing or two)-- but I am not
Jane Austen yet and there are limits to
what I can stand."

Thank you for my dear friend Dorene
who gave me the book years ago and it
is still being read! That is what makes a
good story. A story that opens the heart.

These are a few of my favorite things

To Do! That's what the 50th
birthday celebration in Chattanooga
was. Jeannette, the birthday girl,
had the days and food
all planned out. Saturday: used book
store, English Tea Room in the early
afternoon, walk to the Hunter Museum
back to freshen up and a glass of wine ,
then dinner at St. John's Meeting Place.
I had quail.
Quail on a bed of gouda grits. Quail
stuffed with mushrooms, zucchini and
wrapped in bacon. It was the Supper of
the Lamb for sure! A feast.


I only knew Jeannette. We stayed eating
from 6:30 until almost 10:00 eating
that night. The banquet: God's people ]
and God's food! Her other 3 friends were
a feast too!



Quite interesting mixture of modern
and traditional at the Hunter Museum.
The walk over the street traffic was
a bit scary to those
who don't like heights! Me! It is clear
in the daytime.

You've never had an art experience like this. Perched on an 80-foot bluff on the edge of the Tennessee River, the Hunter Museum of American Art offers stunning views of the river and the surrounding mountains. This panorama is equaled only by the exceptional collection of American art inside recognized as one of the country's finest.

The Hunter Museum

Turned into a room in the colonial
house museum and walked around
to find this painting that I love and
had on my headline but was too big.
There was "Girl on a Swing" by Winslow
Homer, a pencil drawing above it and
the watercolor below ~~ not very big.
Not very big but OH SO beautiful.
He captures extraordinary moments
of beauty. Just a little girl enjoying the
sunshine on a summer day. I love her
legs crossed and her shoes and that hat!