As a mom of teens, I find myself in the car more often than I prefer. I am learning to reframe this time as an opportunity to connect with my older children, hear their hearts, sample their questionable taste in music, and listen to their discourse with friends. Sometimes, when there is bickering or deadpan silence, I fill that void with great podcasts. Recently, I listened to a podcast called "Human Dignity and the Classical Tradition". As my eldest daughter and I traveled the winding, rural roads that lead to town, we listened to Winston Brady, from the podcast Developing Classical Thinkers, explain that "classical education asserts the proposition that human beings are image bearers, having been created by God with the capacity for reason and contemplation, the drive for creative self-expression, and the capacity to make free, meaningful moral choices". I glanced over at her several times throughout the podcast, delighted that she comprehended the content being shared as a result of the education I have been providing her for the past three years. Neither of us would have understood concepts like syllogisms, premises, Latin words like Imago Dei let alone natural law versus common law. They were foreign concepts only a short time ago, but they are now, rich with meaning.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Encouragement
As a mom of teens, I find myself in the car more often than I prefer. I am learning to reframe this time as an opportunity to connect with my older children, hear their hearts, sample their questionable taste in music, and listen to their discourse with friends. Sometimes, when there is bickering or deadpan silence, I fill that void with great podcasts. Recently, I listened to a podcast called "Human Dignity and the Classical Tradition". As my eldest daughter and I traveled the winding, rural roads that lead to town, we listened to Winston Brady, from the podcast Developing Classical Thinkers, explain that "classical education asserts the proposition that human beings are image bearers, having been created by God with the capacity for reason and contemplation, the drive for creative self-expression, and the capacity to make free, meaningful moral choices". I glanced over at her several times throughout the podcast, delighted that she comprehended the content being shared as a result of the education I have been providing her for the past three years. Neither of us would have understood concepts like syllogisms, premises, Latin words like Imago Dei let alone natural law versus common law. They were foreign concepts only a short time ago, but they are now, rich with meaning.
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Currently: January
Enjoying
The slow and unscheduled pace of Christmas Break
Listening
One Name (Jesus) by Naomi Raine
Personal Reading
Ordinary Discipleship: How God Wires Us for the Adventure of a Lifetime by Jessie Cruickshank JJessieCruickshankess
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education by David Hicks
Five Life of our Anti-Christian Age by Rosiaro Buterfield
The One Year Chronological Bible (Currently in Genesis).
Hide Your Children: Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids by Liz Wheeler
From Seed to Bloom: A year of Growing and Designing with Seasonal Flowers by Milli Proust
Reading for Teaching Homeschool Co-op
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays by Peter Leithart
The Taming of the Shrew. - Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Delighting
In learning how to REST.
I thinking I have finally learning how to do this well. It means putting my feet up and reading a great book (even in the middle of the afternoon), taking a walk with my dog through the meadow near our home, journaling, taking long showers, sitting at my vanity when doing skin care in the evenings, going to bed at a reasonable time, and having lengthy conversations with my husband at the table after dinner instead up cleaning up.
Thinking
About how to work from home more effectively .
Currently
De-junking and organizing all the DOOM piles that have been mounting in my home for the past couple of months. I am not very good at dealing with paperwork. Arrrggg.
Learning
Shakespeare. There is a reason people are still reading his plays 400 hundred years after his death.
Dreaming
About the space I want to create in my garden for my flock of Call and Muscovy Ducks.
Baking
Courtney's GF Chewy Ginger Cookies The recipe can be found on her Website: Strawberry Cream Kitchen
Planning
Semester 2 for my Challenge 1 Students.
Longing
For my husband to put up bead board in my kitchen and install a copper pot rail.