cold winter returns

Photo of last week's snow before
Spring arrived. Winter is holding
on as we get some cold air and rain
coming our way. Looking out from
my front porch which is on the second landing. As my son Evan said
today, this is not cold. You should be in Boone to know COLD.
Could have fooled me as I grabbed my vest to wear to keep warm as the air is dropping in temperature.

William Merritt Chase

Isn't that a gorgeous painting!
We have a wonderful exhibit
coming to our city this coming
weekend from New Orleans:
Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt,
O'Keefe, Picasso, Kandinsky,
John Singer Sargent, Miro,
....oh my, sigh. I've been teaching
my class about these artists. Even
a Pollack who splattered paint
and made a living from that! No
William Merritt Chase from my
headliner, but I love the green in
this painting and would love to
be there breathing the air of freshness
and hearing it too.
Reminds me of this Wendell Berry
poem:


IV
Ask the world to reveal its quietude—
not the silence of machines when they are still,
but the true quiet by which birdsongs,
trees, bellows, snails, clouds, storms
become what they are, and are nothing else.

Have to hold my tongue

And pray as I listen to the news.
Any lessons to be heeded?
Good article here on what the cities
will do. Skim it. Then pray.

17 years ago

I had my 4th boy!
I think back to how full my
days were with all of them
and homeschooling and would
not trade any day in for a different
kind of life! What a blessing my
children are to me and my husband!
Keep on if you are in the midst
of a housefull of children to educate.
There's a legacy to pass on to them.
Happy 17th Gordan!


“You are the heirs of a remarkable legacy—
a legacy that has passed into your hands
after no little tumult and travail; a legacy
that is the happy result of sacrificial human
relations, no less than of stupendous human
achievements; a legacy that demands of you
a lifetime of vigilance and diligence so that
you may in turn pass the fruits of Christian
civilization on to succeeding generations.
This is the essence of the biblical view, the
covenantal view, and the classical view of
education. This is the great legacy of truth
which you are now the chief beneficiaries.”
—Arthur Quiller-Couch

Don't Forget to send YOUR RED Envelope

Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter



To the President to remind
him that each envelope
represents a child who died
because of abortion.My first
one goes out tomorrow. Thankfully,
I had a RED envelope. I think
I may have some more to send
by March 31st.


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The perfect word from the Lord

We awoke to snow and no
school. The neighborhood kids
big and small came out to make
snowmen and then to see each other.
We don't live where everyone goes to
the same school : public, private and
homeschool. I've watched these kids
grow up ( well, for the past 11 years) so
I love snow days.

After praying with a friend this morning
on the phone about the state of affairs
in our nation, I read these perfect words
from the Lord in MORNING by Charles
Spurgeon:

“But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.”

1 Samuel 13:20

WE are engaged in a great war with the Philistines of evil. Every weapon within our reach must be used. Preaching, teaching, praying, giving, all must be brought into action, and talents which have been thought too mean for service must now be employed......

Most of our tools want sharpening; we need quickness of perception, tact, energy, promptness, in a word, complete adaptation for the Lord’s work. Practical common sense is a very scarce thing among the conductors of Christian enterprises. We might learn from our enemies if we would, and so make the Philistines sharpen our weapons. This morning let us note enough to sharpen our zeal during this day by the aid of the Holy Spirit.

Snow ...snow...snow

We woke up to SNOW this morning
in Boone. It stopped and then as
we left my niece's All State Orchestra
Concert, more snow. Driving down the
mountains was treacherous, but then
as we descended it stopped again. Then
miles down the highway we hit a blizzard.
Snow coming down so hard. Back home
it was wet. Now we have SNOW!
Wish I had those snow flakes on my
blog headliner!