CMP Review 2025-05-21

May 21, 2025

Charlotte Mason tells us it’s impossible to measure the positive effect that really looking at even a single great picture can have upon a child, or the impact on his sense of beauty, and his power of seeing when an artist reveals the wonder of the common sights of life to him through a painting.

Opening our eyes to the wonder that surrounds us—the wonder of the everyday, that power belongs to the artist.

Growing up in the rolling hills of Northeast Iowa, our farmhouse was surrounded by hayfields. While we liked to play in the fields, farming was a way to make a living, detassling corn and baling hay were popular summer jobs. And a great many of us dreamt of escape from this rural landscape.

It was when looking at an image from Claude Monet’s Haystacks series that I really saw the beauty of our rural home & land for the first time.

@rbaburina

Image @aolander