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“The wonder of all wandering…”
Today we read a chapter from H.E. Marshall’s English Literature for Boys and Girls: But of one of the great treasures of old Irish literature we will talk. This is the Leabhar Na h-Uidhre, or Book of...
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Two Gardeners: A Rabbit Trail
A book arrived yesterday that made me giddy. Scott saw me squealing over it and wanted to know what all the excitement was about. I tried to think how best to explain it to him. “Okay, imagine that...
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Round Buildings, Square Buildings, Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish
Image source: Wikimedia Commons I’ve written about this book before: “Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip M. Isaacson. Twelve years ago, this children’s...
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Monday Monday
Today I forgot to blog first; it’s nearly bedtime. Melanie has begun a link-up for sharing daily learning notes, always an engaging topic (if you’re anything like me). I used to have an entire...
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“…strange archaic sympathies with the world”
The black curagh working slowly through this world of grey, and the soft hissing of the rain gave me one of the moods in which we realise with immense distress the short moment we have left us to...
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Connecting with ideas—and each other
I’m circling back to yesterday’s topic. The bird clock chirped before I got to the best kind of connections! A few hours later, laughing with Huck and Rilla over a math problem, I knew I’d want to...
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“With practice, they begin to see carelessly”
A somewhat grainy photo of my four oldest children taken at the Point Loma Lighthouse in 2007, not long after we moved to San Diego. The Pacific was still quite new to them. When I coined the term...
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