“I believe today’s world is hungering to be transformed by the spirit of femininity. What better antidote for an impersonal and violent society than warm, gentle feminine strength? What better cure for urban sprawl and trashed out country-sides than a love of beauty and a confidence in one’s ability to make things lovely? What better […]
“For years, while raising children, a mother’s time is never her own, her own needs have to be kept in second place, and every time she turns around a hand is reaching out and demanding something. Hence, a mother raising children, perhaps in a more privileged way even than a professional contemplative, is forced, almost […]
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ~M. Sarton Fifty empty holes, lining the picket fence of our front yard, lay ahead of me and my mini crew. Fifty holes dug out […]
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Cicero One of the best words of advice in my motherhood and homeschooling journey was to build up your own home library. In a world of every changing politics and morals and seeing history literally being erased or changed, a […]
Mother, oh mother, come shake out your cloth! Empty the dustpan, poison the moth, Hang out the washing and butter the bread, Sew on a button and make up a bed. Where is the mother whose house is so shocking? She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking! Oh, cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow, […]
