Category Archives: Commonplace Book Entries

Charlotte Mason Bookmarks: Discipline vs Desultory Reading

By Headmistress | Published: May 31, 2015

Click to enlarge, set paper to landscape, margins to .5, preview if you can, and print: Updated to note the typo on the fourth bookmark has been fixed.  I guess my proofreading was a little too desultory.=)

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A Celebration of Soups

By Headmistress | Published: December 6, 2014

Then she made a game of getting an interesting supper out of the odds and ends she had in her little tin box out the window, which she called her refrigerator. A stalk of celery, too tough to enjoy raw, nearly a cup of stewed tomatoes left over from yesterday, a lump of baked beans, […]

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Chesterton Quote for the Commonplace Book

By Headmistress | Published: April 10, 2013

Or again, his argument for Revelation is quite rationalistic; and on the other side, decidedly democratic and popular. His argument for Revelation is not in the least an argument against Reason. On the contrary, he seems inclined to admit that truth could be reached by a rational process, if only it were rational enough; and […]

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The Justice We Owe To Others

By Headmistress | Published: January 31, 2012

“I must hurt nobody by Word or Deed.––Justice requires that we should take steady care every day to yield his rights to every person we come in contact with; that is, “to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us: to hurt nobody by word or deed”; therefore we must show […]

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Quote for the Common Place Book

By Headmistress | Published: July 13, 2011

Current give away: Win a copy of Large Family Logistics!  And don’t forget that we’re discussing Open Heart, Open Home, and will be posting a link-share so you can join in the hospitality discussion. Here’s the first week, more on ch. 2, then the second week, (still a bit of time to add your link!) […]

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