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Next week is my big school planning week. Three of my children are attending a horse camp, and so E-Age-16 and I plan to bum around the house and Get Things Done!
I’m beyond thrilled to not be getting my own picture study materials together. After ten years, I’m throwing in the towel and letting someone else do it for me: Rebecca from A Humble Place. Rebecca has done what I’ve always done — grabbing images online based on the titles from the AmblesideOnline artist study selections and putting them into a nice, printable document — but way better because she has a few of her own thoughts on each painting (she has an art history degree) whereas I had almost no thoughts!
Check out these amazing resources she’s put together for those of us doing AO!
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Did you use Swedish Drill Revisited this year, with your children or in a co-op? If so, we’re looking for some reviews! Dawn is coming out with a second level soon, and we are getting requests for reviews from people who are looking at Level One. It seems perfect to us to give you a 10% off coupon for Level Two in exchange for an honest review of Level One. (Yes, you have to have actually bought it and used it for this to work!)
Click here to go leave a review!
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In case you missed it, another episode of AfterCast came out last week. This time, I talked about “short lessons” — what Charlotte Mason meant by this term, how it changes over the years, and how we can adjust for our own children as needed.
Click here to listen. Or even better, go to your podcast player and subscribe!
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At the end of June, I bought The Awakening of Miss Prim on a whim. I didn’t have a novel on my shelves I was in the mood to read, and I’d been meaning to pick up this title for years.
I had heard some great reviews, some good reviews, and some less-than-enthusiastic reviews, so it was with fear and trembling that I turned the first page. After all, I wanted to like it … and I was so afraid I wouldn’t.
There was NO reason for me to be afraid. The author is obviously familiar with my favorite writers and thinkers — not just Chesterton, Lewis, and Tolkien, but also greats like John Senior and Cardinal Newman. She also seems to equate homeschooling with the possibility of reenacting the now defunct Integrated Humanities Program from the University of Kansas — and if you’re familiar with Poetic Knowledge, you’ll be a fan of that.
I’m giving it two thumbs up and I highly recommend it. She’s writing from a deep well, which I appreciate, but it was also a fun little tale.
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This month in 2017:
Not very old, but a fun one to write.
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This week’s links collection:
- Ancient Carthaginians really did sacrifice their children from University of Oxford
- You never know when you’ll need this sort of information. 😉
- Was there ever any doubt? Well, yes. Yes there was:
This is something the Romans and Greeks said the Carthaginians did and it was part of the popular history of Carthage in the 18th and 19th centuries.
‘But in the 20th century, people increasingly took the view that this was racist propaganda on the part of the Greeks and Romans against their political enemy, and that Carthage should be saved from this terrible slander.
- Interesting, though, isn’t it? How they try to dress it up and make it sound nice at the end?
- Charles I’s ‘message for the future’ discovered in poetry book from The Guardian
- This is so cool!
- Olive Oil Scam REVEALED (And How to Spot the Real Stuff) from Mama Natural
- This is why I only buy California certified olive oil!
- Christianity CRACKDOWN: Crisis in Nigeria as THOUSANDS killed in ‘pure GENOCIDE’ from Express
- Lord, have mercy!
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It’s so encouraging to see you mentioning the IHP under John Senior, a program near and dear to my heart, since so many of my friends at UD had parents who studied there back in the 70’s! So much good came out of that program, it’s no wonder it got shut down. But its fruits live on in many places, including a couple of great boys boarding schools, St. Gregory the Great (www.gregorythegreatacademy.org. ) , and a new one in Kansas, St. Martin’s Academy (www.saintmartinsacademy.org ). I think your Wikipedia link gives a good overview of those other legacies, including a college and a monastery that is dear to the hearts of many! It’s really neat to talk to people who were in that program and to see just how the role of poetic knowledge shaped their minds and spirits and their whole way of living in a sort of radically counter-cultural way, not in order to withdraw from society but to be, rather, an agent of change within society. So fascinating! Cotillions, star-gazing, memorizing poetry, and listening to fascinating discussions on the Great Books….. I can’t think of a better college experience.
The IHP has always sounded like something out of a dream to me. But also, I think the Torrey Honors Program at my university (Biola) was not the same, but definitely similar. My big regret in life is not understanding what it was and so opting out…
I love Rebecca’s art study packets. She has saved my bacon in that area.
You know, there might be a general inclination to get us to “be okay” with the Carthaginian child sacrifice, b/c we sacrifice our children regularly by the millions. At the alter of convenience. For the pleasure of the god Ourselves.
Have you seen the news about the round ups in western China? That is crazy and sad. Unfortunately, genocide has been going on since sin entered our world, but our moder news abilities make us more aware of us. I understand better my Dad’s “please come back soon, Jesus” prayers.
Point taken about the Carthaginians. I think you might be right.
I have NOT seen the news about China, but my word! It seems like persecution is getting bad again … 🙁
Brandy, I just wanted to pop in here and tell you how much I adored your thoughts on silence in your weekly digest!!! I have suffered for months (probably years) from the lack of the sweet sounds of silence, but, this past week, I was home alone *gasp*!
My husband and sons went away for the week and it was just me and it was lovely with all of the silence. I don’t get much silence in a normal day with three boys and a hyperactive Border Collie! Now don’t get me wrong, I love the boy noise (most of the time), but, I do miss my silence. I took advantage of the silence and stayed in and read and contemplated and it was wonderfully good for my soul.
I need to do that more often.
On a different note, I do want to read Miss Prim, but, am reading The Two Towers now. What are your thoughts on reading two novels simultaneously? I do it all of the time with the kids for school in Morning Time, but, not sure that I want to do it for myself leisurely as I am worried I might savor them together the same as I would separately.
Would love to hear your thoughts!
Hope your summer is going well!
You know, I was technically reading two novels at once. I hadn’t thought about it that way, but I was reading Fellowship of the Ring aloud to my family on the same days I was reading the novel. Does that count? 😉
I found I followed along okay, but admittedly Fellowship is a re-read for me. I think I’d just try it and if you find it too distraction, you can always put Miss Prim back on your pile.
I often read numerous non-fiction books at a time, but it is interesting to me how much more difficult it is to read multiple novels. At least, for me it is, and it sounds like it might be for you, too.
Wow, this was a surprise when I loaded your page today! 🙂 I am honored that you’re using my picture study aids, Brandy! And thank you for the link! Also, Miss. Prim has been patiently waiting on my TBR pile for a while now….I think it’s time I dusted her off….
Well, I was very happy to share them. Thank you so much for putting them together! ♥
I’m not even sure what to say about the comparison of child sacrificers to the Pilgrim fathers escaping persecution for their beliefs. Yes, I suppose it’s just like that ??