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Rabbit Trails emerges from hibernation with some delightful music, beautiful words and thought provoking articles. First – This WONDERFUL Circe Institute post, Summons to the Sacred: On Palestrina’s “Kyrie,” inaugurates what will be a most welcome monthly series of reflections on … Continue reading Rabbit Trails: First Monday in August
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It is a capital plan for children to keep a calendar—the first oak-leaf, the first tadpole, the first cow-slip, the first catkin, the first ripe blackberries, … Continue reading The First Blueberry
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The Daughter and I got our first taste of American Impressionism a year or so ago when the Peninsula Fine Art Center had a wonderful exhibit … Continue reading American Impressionism in the Garden
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The beach was slowly filling up with fishing poles, coolers and occupied beach chairs. The Atlantic was gorgeous, shimmering in the slant of the early morning autumn sun, the tide rolling in with a surge of foam and spray. Feet bare, … Continue reading Gifts From The Sea
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The Garner Girls love to read! My love for reading is a gift from my mother, who always made sure there was plenty to read when I was growing up. Trips to the library were frequent and a joy. My … Continue reading Beyond Bedtime: Seven Thoughts About Reading Aloud
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The six-hour drive from Norfolk to our family farm tucked up amongst the gently rounded mountains of the Blue Ridge, is long. We have taken many different roads to the farm in an effort to save time, improve food choices, and increase … Continue reading The Road Less Travelled…
Today is Trinity Sunday, a special day in the church calendar, that follows the giving of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, and focuses on the doctrine of the Triune nature of God. At church we sang one of my favorite … Continue reading Trinitarian Prayer
My blog writing, even the relatively undemanding monthly-wrap-up-with-a-few-photos, experienced a pregnant pause. You might not have noticed, but enough time has passed to birth a donkey, alpaca, camel, zebra or tapir, all animals whose mothers endure gestations of around 13 months. … Continue reading A Pregnant Pause
Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two … Continue reading Each is both, and all
The old familiar seasonal pop song, and a line or two in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are all I ever really knew about chestnuts… I never connected them to the two Chinese Chestnut trees that until last year shaded the cottage at Middle Ridge but whose viciously sharp burrs deter one from any sort of barefoot exploring in late summer and fall. A lovely limey green in spring and summer, by the fall, the burrs drop off of the tree, dry out, turn brown, and eventually open up. The burrs are every bit as sharp as they look. You really … Continue reading Chestnuts roasting…
March started off with the inaugural gathering of the Hampton Roads Charlotte Mason Reading Group on March 1st. Charlotte Mason was a brilliant British educator who established a unique philosophy of education. Her writings and method provide a blueprint for … Continue reading Savoring March
February this year brought nary a vision of dancing hearts in hues of rhodamine, rubine, or red, nor a vase of over-priced, under-scented, long-stem, short-lived roses with drooping heads; no Belgian chocolate unfairly traded or Hallmark cards with verse over-rated, … Continue reading Savoring February
