The CMP Review — Week of April 22
April 22, 2024
“Spring is here. The warm sun has wooed the bare earth back to life and beauty. Like the tear-stained face of an infant, kissed by a fond mother’s lips, smiles have broken through the gloom at last.” (E. A. Smith, PR16, p. 200)
@tessakeath
April 23, 2024
“Ruskin re-awakened the hearts of men by his work and study,” wrote Rose Amy Pennethorne in 1952. He arose like a light in darkness, she said, and trained “young men once more to see, and understand what they saw.” Charlotte Mason was determined that young men and women *would* see, and hence picture study was born.
From black and white photographs, to Perry Pictures, to color reproductions from the Medici Society, the materials of picture study have changed but the substance remains the same, and always with its “co-ordinating link” to the other studies of the term.
Read or hear the fascinating story of the awakening of picture study by House of Education graduate and PENU leader Miss Pennethorne. Find it here.
@artmiddlekauff
April 24, 2024
It was so much fun to watch @aolander film my youngest teach handcrafts this weekend. It reminded me of something that occurred when he was young.
Handicrafts is something I had little interest in when we began homeschooling. My boys couldn’t get enough of them, though. One day they asked why I wasn’t participating in a paper sloyd project with them, to which I replied, “Oh, I’m no good at it. My fingers won’t do what I want.”
“I am, I can, I ought, I will.” came their sweet reply. So, I picked up my knife and they encouraged me through.
@rbaburina
April 25, 2024
En la segunda carta a los Corintios, el apóstol Pablo dice: “la tristeza que es conforme a la voluntad de Dios produce un arrepentimiento que conduce a la salvación, sin dejar pesar; pero la tristeza del mundo produce muerte.” No sé usted, pero yo he experimentado mucha tristeza en mi trayectoria como educador en el hogar; y, honestamente, no creo que sea el único. Muchos padres con los que hablo han experimentado una gama de emociones que van desde la culpa y el miedo hasta la convicción y la resolución, pero ¿alegría?
Muchos sienten que aquella sensación serena y sostenida de alegría y paz les esquiva; así me ha parecido a mí. Pero ¿esto debiera ser así? Sigo convencido de que la educación en casa es una vocación sagrada, y creo que las palabras del apóstol Pablo pueden guiarnos para que produzcamos los frutos del Espíritu en esta vocación, frutos que incluyan el gozo.
Ahora mi testimonio “La tristeza que es de Dios, la tristeza del mundo, y el gozo” está disponible en español, traducido por Johanna Pérez-Ray y leído por Eliézer Salazar.
@artmiddlekauff
April 26, 2024
In a sea of browns and yellows, this chive-y green strikingly bursts forth in all of its splendour!
Isn’t it just beautiful!?!
What are the first things popping out of the ground where you are?
@antonella.f.greco
April 27, 2024
Join Sonya Shafer and I as we discuss some simple ideas to help you grow in nature journaling. Find it here.
@rbaburina
image: @aolander
April 28, 2024
“There is no sin, no vice that gives one such a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience,” wrote Catherine of Siena. “[The impatient] are unwilling to bear or tolerate their neighbors’ shortcomings; they don’t even know how to! Anything that is done or said to them sets them flying, their emotions stirred to anger and impatience like a leaf in the wind!”
In recent years, Dr. S. M. Davis has spoken at length about the destructive impact of anger within families. “Rebellion in youth seldom goes away until parents deal, not just with anger, but with their spirit of anger,” he explains. He points to the moment in Luke 9 when James and John ask if they should “command fire to come down from heaven, and consume” the Samaritans. Jesus rebuked not only their anger, but also their spirit of anger: “Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of” (Luke 9:55).
Many justify anger when it is expressed as righteous indignation. And when is indignation ever more righteous than when the honor of Christ is at stake? Charlotte Mason explores this question in her poem entitled “The Samaritan Village.” What is the root of anger, and what is its fruit? Examine your spirit as you read or hear Mason’s poem here.
@artmiddlekauff