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My 2020 highlights were: “What It’s Like to be A Bird” by David Allen Sibley. This coffee table book features beautiful paintings as well as amazing facts about flying, singing, making feathers, etc., cleverly cross-referenced so that it can be … Continue reading Mr. Garner’s 2020 Year in Reading
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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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Flowing Nature I’m the movement of clouds, … Continue reading The Abettor of Bees…
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A Commonplace Book Entry: Nobody can be a real princess – do not imagine you have yet been anything more than a mock one – until she is a princess over herself, that is, until when she finds herself unwilling … Continue reading A slave, and no princess
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Our poet for the Third Term in the Garner Homeschool is Alfred, Lord Tennyson. We have a few poems to read each week, and then we are scheduled to spend the last few weeks of the term reading Idylls … Continue reading Tennyson, Ulysses and 007
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A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky – I’ve thought of all by … Continue reading Elusive Sleep
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A green leaf, fresh, unfurled, basking in the sun, the flesh of its form, and the fluid in its veins working a chemical reaction only possible with the light and heat from the sun, and without which it will die, … Continue reading Photosynthesis for the Soul
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To celebrate National Poetry Month I will be posting a few of our favorite poems from our Commonplace Books. Seven Stanzas at Easter by John Updike Make no mistake if He rose at all it was as His body; if … Continue reading Seven Stanzas at Easter, John Updike
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While we’re asleep The paschal moon is shining High above the trees. And high above the trees Even while we’re sleeping Easter is growing In the paschal moon Like a child in its mother. — Anne Porter I was up … Continue reading The Morning-After Moon
My Year of Reading 2020 Like most people, our year started out with expectations and aspirations. The Daughter was visiting colleges and auditioning for music schools and scholarships. We were (still) unpacking boxes from our August move, working … Continue reading My Year of Reading (2020)
My Year of Reading 2019 This is the year that my daughter graduated (in May), the year we packed up, repaired, painted, listed and sold our beloved Craftsman Bungalow (April through October) and the year which, in a … Continue reading My Year of Reading (2019)
My Year of Reading 2018 – The Year I Blogged a Little. I didn’t blog much in 2018. The end of 2018 was during the first half of my daughter’s senior year so we were visiting schools and stressing over … Continue reading My Year of Reading (2018)
‘Tis the season for Book Lists and Book Challenges! At the beginning of 2020, I looked wistfully at several book challenges. I had about three I was considering and was pondering which “book in translation” to read when the Spirit … Continue reading My Year of Reading (2017)
Sheltering at home, and pulling drafts from the draft folder. This one from the spring of 2018. Current events have drastically affected the wedding market. Perhaps, the better to savor the true meaning of the event. Thanks for reading. … Continue reading Hashtag: For Better or For Worse
