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"The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens...

"Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, the counsel- chamber of thought." —Attributed...

(Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's "Character(s) To Live By"column) If I chose to hide you away, it is for a reason. I have brought you to this place. Drink in the silence. Seek solitude. Listen to the silence. It will teach you. It will build strength Let others share it with you. It is little to be found elsewhere. Silence will speak more to you in a day than the world of voices can teach you in a lifetime. Find silence. Find solitude – and having discovered

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

First Day of School traditions are always a great way to start the new school year.

Taking part in a reading challenge can be a fun way to meet your reading goals for the year. Our first readalong is The Man Born To Be King.

(The Young Readers Edition) OF HOMERS AND HEROES (Originally published in Common Place Quarterley's 'Character(s) To Live By' column) As...