Working on Poetry

I am heading to the Charlotte Mason
Educational Conference next
and preparing.
A Child's Life in Verse ~~yes,
indeed. Poetry. Jeannette and
I will be doing a workshop on what John
Keats said:

“Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.“

Emily Dickinson

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

From Leavings by Wendell Berry to get me
in the mood:

“Learn by little the desire for all things

which perhaps is not desire at all but undying love

which perhaps is not love at all but gratitude for the being of all things

which perhaps is not gratitude at all but the maker’s joy in what is made,

the joy in which we come to rest.”

Here is Wendell reading from his newest

poetry book : Leavings.

Longer reading here..

You learn alot from listening .

Emily Dickinson

Makoto Fujimura spoke about
Emily at the IAM Encounters
Conference in March. Her
hyphens..........and he said
he would write on her.
Here is the link to
Refractions 36: "The Hyphen
of the Sea"- A Journey with
Emily Dickinson, Part 1.

He writes:
The first chapter of this series of Refractions online will focus on Emily Dickinson's reading of Matthew six, in which Jesus addresses "consider the lilies."




Matthew :Consider the Lilies
Makoto Fujimura
Mineral pigments, Gold,
platinum, and sumi on
kumohada ~~~~ 60 layers
of finely pulverized minerals,
oyster shell white, and painted
with sumi ink that has been
cured for over a century,
as well as gold and platinum
powders, mixed with hide glue
to adhere the minerals to the
Japanese paper.

Finishing up ....literature and the year

American Culture .
Done. Tomorrow.
Project Evening was last
night and our students
were extraordinary.
As Arthur Quiller- Couch
(Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944): Cornishman, man of letters, writer of novels and books for children, poet and anthologist, academic, lecturer, founding father of the School of English (sc. the Faculty) at Cambridge)
said:

“You are indeed 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 and covenantal view of education."

Summer is close

Hot.
It got hot and now
classes are ending this
week and last week. Piano
Recital awaits in June.

Today I'm so thankful for
a wedding two years ago:
oldest son! I'm so glad she
said YES!

If you are a Larkrise to Candle-
ford watcher or if you aren't,
watch the last minutes on
Thomas and Margaret's wedding.
( 7 minutes on to the end)
It will make your heart sing!

Favorite

The Book of Dun Cow
is now a favorite.
Walter Wangerin wrote
with such deep biblical
imagination and whimsy
that I couldn't put it down.

I wish my boys were still
young so I could read it
out loud to them. They
would have begged to
READ ON!

I still am pondering the
title. Any ideas?

"Under her breath she prayed
blessings upon the heads of the
Pins ( baby chicks of Chauntecleer)
continually. Continually?
Why, she had never ceased to pray
for them since their birth. With
words she was constructing a
defense around them, against
danger, against disease, against
ill will, misfortune. All alone,
in the secret of her soul, she was
building peace and their good
growth ~~ and that with words."

IN....

Acts 17:28 (King James Version)

²⁸For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Telling Stories

Sometimes in telling your
own story to your children,
you forget you haven't told this
one some-thing. That is what
happened today with Emma.
"You didn't tell me that?!!"
I won an essay scholarship to
Tobe CoburnFashion Merchandising
School in NYC on Madison Avenue my
Senior Year of college. So I spent
a "graduate" year in the Big Apple.
My childhood was spent on Long
Island and relatives still lived in
and out of the city so this was not
a huge leap. School paid for ; apt.
not but a year of living in the
Big Apple. Seems miles away
now.

I remember in "One Thousand Gifts"
by Ann Voskamp how she said to
tell your children "your story."
I've started doing that in letters
and even birthday cards. Today
one story came out that really got a
surprised bright eyed look!


Plus I am still enthralled with
The Book of Dun Cow by
Walter Wangerin. If you were
in front of me, you would hear
how much in love I am with
Chauntecleer and want to jump
into the book!