“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Thanksgiving Art
Despite the fact that Christmas trees and decorations are up all over North Texas, I continue to cling to the crazy idea that Thanksgiving should come and go before we deck the halls and falalalala. Ahem. Some Thanksgiving art, folk songs, and hymns to enhance your holiday. First the art. (Bonus art: some of the […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Hudson River Autumn
The school of painters, not the geographic location, although the location certainly did inspire, didn’t it? No matter who we study — what artist, time period, or style — my heart keeps returning to these painters who so wonderfully captured the beauty of creation. “Autumn of the Hudson River” by Jasper Francis Cropsey. Albert Bierstadt, […]
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Picking up on cultural context
A came across this fascinating video about The Globe Theater’s attempts to perform some of Shakespeare’s plays in the original dialects. (Just a head’s up if you have little ones about: There are some bawdy jokes that are discussed–evident in the original that have been lost as dialects change.) Recently, I listened to the Teaching […]
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Fine Arts Friday: (Pre) Renaissance Woman
Despite a rather rocky start, it’s good to be back in the saddle with our routine and our studies and most of all, our fine arts. We’ve been spending a lot of time in the modern world with both our history and our fine arts (since I like to try to line them up if […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Carrot in the carrot cake
Our Fine Arts Friday is officially kaput. Next week, Fridays will be devoted to enrichment days at a local private school. To be fair, the kids will be taking art (at least three of the four will), and we’re going to be stopping and picnicking and hiking at our local nature preserve. But it won’t […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Back in the car
School still doesn’t start till next week, but all the appointments are now back on the calendar. That means an extra six hours in the car a week, which means the return of audio books! This year is slightly different because the girls will not be trekking to the boys therapy appointments this year, so […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Reworking the schedule
We’re coming to the end of our Fine Arts Friday. Not the study of fine arts, mind you, or even posts on this blog. However, this is the end to our having a single day to focus on fine arts. Fridays will now be devoted to enrichment classes for the younger three. Little Miss has […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Appreciation
Taking a break from the whys and hows of studying fine arts to merely soak in the beauty, and the fun, In case of survival, recovery is slow, often taking more than one pill per day as generic viagra 100mg it can cause severe unwanted reactions. The drug world has been loaded with a large […]
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Fine Arts Friday: the Art of America’s Founding
John Adams was (almost) right about this glorious day: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Jump start on June
May has five Fridays, and June will be full of extra travel, so I’m getting a head start on our June pieces. I love the hymn, “I love to tell the story.” It makes me think of small country churches and dusty hymnals. Hymnals should be a thing again. Bring back the hymnal! Down with […]
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