The year is winding down to a close. How are you doing? How is the state of your house? Illness strikes, an all-consuming project is due, guests come and go, daily life moves ever forward without stopping to clean up after itself. We all have periods where things slide and
I’ve read Joseph Pieper’s little book Leisure: The Basis of Culture a few times, and every time I find it worth the slog in the beginning to make it to the chapter 4. Chapter 4 confirmed to me that convivial was a word to latch onto and make
Do you know what it means to teach from rest? Teaching from rest is not easy or gentle or comfortable. Teaching from rest is homeschooling faithfully.
She stood in the kitchen. Dinner was over, and the evidence of this fact was everywhere she turned. * Dishes * Messy counters * Dirty table * Sticky floor * Food to put away still out Where to even begin? It felt overwhelming. Could it wait until tomorrow? When could she say she was done?