african miss mason

My heart was still lovesick for Spring. She is here now and has scattered her pearls on the figs, mulberries, and strawberries in my garden.

Girl at a Window by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The Lenten season is here, and several one-hundred-day projects are happening across the web¹. I will do contemplative reading and notebooking using Laurie Bestvater's Studying to be Quiet: One Hundred Days of Keeping. L

Christmas is almost upon us, and the dizzying speed many of us have been going is slowing down. We have been bombarded by end-of-year...

(Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's "Character(s) To Live By"column) A few years ago, our bible group meditated on the...

Before encountering mushrooms as part of our curriculum, they didn’t hold any particular meaning for our family. While we had enjoyed...

How do we bring beauty into our workaday lives?