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I'm kind of having one those Elsa on the mountain "Frozen" moments, only nothing happens when I stomp my foot.
"I'm free........"
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I just want to stop in and wave quick. I am still working on Screwtape Letters and Til We Have Faces. The weather is beautiful here and I want to celebrate it while I can.
And I want to give you all a big thank you. I have lived through the most absurd social he11 these last couple months due being a neo-classist and it all came to a head this last week. You all have no idea what it's meant to me to come online and follow your enthusiasms.
Thank you and enjoy your reading!
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Hugs Amy.
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I stop if there's push back and its just for enrichment. This year doing extra math is really hard because there is so much homework. Last night, DD brought the Beast Academy Guide Book to reading time so I'm thinking that maybe Life of Fred and Beast Academy during reading time might work better in this house. Good luck.
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Like the new name. :grouphug: on the insomnia. I understand exactly how you feel. Screwtape letters has been on my list for years, maybe your enjoyment will motivate me.
The audio version is really well done. I highly recommend it.
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Winter here. I changed my name because I felt like it and I have a moment because I have insomnia again. Yippee!
I'm still working through "Til We All Have Faces" and am stitching the quilt while listening to C.S. Lewis's "Screwtape Letters" as well. The Screwtape Letters are really interesting. I've never heard a pastor speak of spiritual warfare, satanic attacks and so forth so this is entertaining on many levels.
I like this quote, especially since there seems to be some disbelief that we really do teach ancient languages in this house with young children;
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.â€
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Carschooling:
Story of the World Audio
Jim Weiss CDs
Audio Books from the library
Any of the "Song School Latin" "Song School Greek" and so forth if they want a foreign language
Visual Media:
Magic School Bus
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (Comedies only for this age!)
Math:
Singaporeeducationunboxed.com
Life of Fred (if she wants to do math as part of cuddle reading time)
Reading:
Ordinary Parents Guide to Reading and then onto First Language Lessons
Bob Books
morestarfall.com has phonics instruction, a read along library as well as math games and so forth.
ETA: Because of the school's homework expectations, we try to do things that don't rely on output or we downplay/ completely throw out the output portion of a curriculum. So for something like Song School Latin, it's OK to do the curriculum orally.
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Just dropping in quick to give my reading update: I finished "The Last Unicorn" and really enjoyed it. It is very well written and I didn't expect it to be (I'm not sure why I thought it would be poorly written).
I'm not sure what I'm going to read next. With school and lessons starting up again, I'm like that muppet, the Swedish Chef one, throwing things in the air and watching them fall where they will. In addition to that, I am refitting all my trousers, jeans, and skirts. Apparently running changes a person's shape. It's not as big a job as I thought it would be but it still takes time.
My best to all of you!
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Is that the blog you were talking about Robin? The One Year Bible and blog are working through Ecclesiastes and you had mentioned Job.
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I love the look of the Greek book. I couldn't resist ordering one for us. The dc's did the Elementary Greek books a couple of years ago but never went to the next step.
It has probably been discussed but which One Year Bible? I showed dh your post while looking at the Greek book, he thought I wanted the Bible too. ;) I started looking and discovered several different versions. Maybe I do want a One Year Bible but not sure which one.
I keep meaning to start my Chronological Bible project again (just reading one that is already printed chronologically, very interesting format. I never finished mainly because my Chronological Bible it is huge. I noticed several of the One Year Bibles are advertised as small sized...
This is the one I got and I bought it blind off of an Ann Voskamp recommendation:
It does line up with the blog that Robin mentioned: http://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/
Here's Ann's blog and the "The Pick of the Best Bibles" is the one with her favorites. I saw the Illuminated one when it came through town and wanted a version of it then.....It would make a beautiful confirmation gift I think.
http://www.aholyexperience.com/category/bible-reading/
I think the Greek book will be fun for us. I don't think matching the translation will be as difficult as I originally thought. Often, once I sound out a word, I can figure out what English word matches it.
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Yes, I'm doing the one year bible read through one year bible blog. Old / New / Psalm and Proverb each day and he does commentary which is usually interesting and educational.
The One Year Bible just arrived in the mail for me today. I didn't know there was a blog to go along with it. How exciting!
I also got this to try to do some "immersion" Minimus like thing in Greek with the kids. Good grief. I like it but even with the translation at the bottom of the page I will need a lexicon.
(And I am so proud of the few words I can pick out in Greek!)
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Eliana, your words remind me of fourteenth century Persian poet, Hafiz...
Don't surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.
Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft
My voice
So tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear.
Love this one. Thank you.
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I'm already feeling churlish re: jelly beans. What was I thinking??! Poor kid, left all alone with her windex...
You can always mail some to her.
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Here are a few verses from Tsvetaeva's Moscow in the Plague Year that I would like to share with y'all:
And for the insomniacs in our group:
It has been a while since I read a book of poetry from page one until the end. This activity takes a different mindset, a different sort of mental discipline. A poem is often viewed outside of the context of the book in which it was published but there is something about the conceptual whole that is worth examining. I should do this more often.
"The thing is, even when I close my eyes
I have no certainty that dreams will come.
Might it not make things much simpler if
I used my own two hands for closing them?
I'm worried they'll stay open in the grave--
I'll be denied the sound sleep of the just.
Stop trying to change me. Owlets need the night,
and sleepless people need their sleeplessness."
Rilke's essays on Rodin are sending me on rabbit trails. For one thing, there are some photos of Rodin sculptures in the book, but here photographer Michael Eastman focuses on faces, hands or torsos, not on the sculptures in their totality. In many respects he captures more of the essence of the sculpture than a postcard photo does. (I say this remembering my obsession with Rodin's sculpted hands while touring an exhibit at the NC Museum of Art around 2000.) Google has been my companion on these rabbit trails though. Looking at a photo of Rodin's Caryatid, I am reminded of Heinlein's description of the piece in Stranger in Strange Land:
From beauty to human self interest at its worst: I'm about half way through The Manchurian Candidate which is probably the most cynical political novel I have ever read.
Funny- I am an insomniac and dream while awake...and I've been told I sleep with my eyes open.
I've always loved Rodin and was fascinated by Camille Claudel. It's interesting how they influenced each other.
I'm still working on "The Last Unicorn" and was pleasantly surprised by some of the classical references in it. Robin- It looks like I'm moving on to Job this week too (but I don't have a Bible reading plan at this point and I'm guessing you do?)
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Do you have time to hike at the Isle of Skye? :)
I finished reading Beth Moore's "Breaking Free" but have about 40 days of going through it again and working through the discussion questions. It wasn't as meaningful for me as her Psalms of Ascent. Rewriting each Psalm in my own words was powerful. I ordered "The One Year Bible" and am considering continuing to write my own version of the Psalms as they come up in that Bible.
I started "The Last Unicorn". Hopefully, this is a better fit than "Life of Pi" was.
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Yes
P.S. My sister texted me last night to say that she had gotten Lou Ferigno to blow her a kiss & flex his muscles for her. :rofl:
He's hiding the fact that he doesn't have a belly button. ;)
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I've never felt that I sacrificed anything of myself to be a mother, and a mother to many. (Though I have often felt as if health issues have sacrificed a lot without consulting me!) ....but I am standing at a place where I realize that there are pieces of myself I have set aside, pieces I want to have be part of the final tapestry of my life. It isn't a bad or sad thing that I haven't used those strands yet, but I am feeling that it would be if I never use them. If that makes any sense at all. ...this might not be the way to do that, but it is somewhere to start.
I've been feeling like this lately. My kids are young and there are no grandchildren in sight for a loooooooooong time! Now, they are both potty trained, can sleep in in the mornings without touching me and can somewhat self-entertain so I am finding my way back to things I did pre-mommy. I was running the other day and remembering what it was like to run when I was younger and imagining what it will be like when I'm old. It was like the young me, present me and future me were all compressed into one moment.
I'm thinking of dropping "Life of Pi". It seems heavy and dark and I want light and fun right now.
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We did and still do http://www.educationunboxed.com/
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Happy Birthday Violet Crown!
Happy Anniversary Robin!I started reading Life of Pi. I'm having trouble reading as I just want to walk everywhere. I walked one trail four times today. Then I wandered out to the lake and sat looking out at it because I didn't know where else to go. I think I may have to try audible for fall. Then I can walk and go the lake to work on embroidering the infamous graduation quilt that needs to be done by May 2015.
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I remember the cottage! We could have really used you as an expert tour guide. People were actually buying jams etc at a couple of houses we saw to get updated directions. I think we live about a half hour away from there. We were at Clipstone the other day for an archeology outing which I think is pretty close to that abbey.
Fyi. Fairly common for people to have handmade signs for produce, honey, eggs.....just knock.
It occurred to me that "run" might mean being in charge of the grounds. I was actually running around the grounds for exercise and scaring the peacocks and whatever ghosts might be about. :lol:
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We have been to Newstead Abbey but I can't remember much about the Abbey. We went on a walk in the surrounding countryside. The footpaths were really poorly marked. Our four mile walk ended up being at least eight, almost got locked in. They let us out special. We haven't been since. Is I Capture the Castle set there? I might need to read it sooner rather than later if it is. ;) I know the surrounding countryside quite well. :lol:
I used to run the grounds at Newstead Abbey and also photographed it for a class. The dirt path I walked to reach the abbey had a singular cottage along it that was originally built as part of the abbey but now is privately owned. I dreamed then (and still do!) of owning that cottage and getting to wander around the grounds every day. "I Capture the Castle" is not set there- but description of bare yet full ruins reminds me of the Abbey.
ETA: The cottage!
http://heritagehub.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/west-lodge-looking-west.jpg
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You all are cracking me up with Paul and his short shorts.
I finished "I Capture the Castle" yesterday. Here's my favorite quote from book:
"It seems to me now that the whole day was like an avenue leading to a home I had loved once but forgotten, the memory of which was coming back some dimly, so gradually, as I wandered along, that only when my ome at last lay before me did I cry: “Now I know why I have been happy!â€
How words weave spells? As I wrote of the avenue, it rose before my eyes- I can see it now, liked with great smooth-trunked trees whose branches meet far above me. The still air is flooded with peace, yet somehow expectant- as it seemed to me once when I was in King’s Crypt cathedral at sunset. On and on I wander, beneath the vaulted roof of branch and leaf...and all the time, the avenue is yesterday, that long approach to beauty. Images in the mind, how strange they are......"
The book made me long for England, ruins and this place:
http://www.aboutbritain.com/images/attraction/NewsteadAbbey-E609-276.jpg
Book a Week in 2014 - BW42
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I love this book Rosie. I am glad you enjoyed it (and I'm fairly certain that I am not the one that recommended it).