“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Hymns
The mention of hymns often gets a lot of backlash. “Hymn singing is old fashioned, passe, and totally without value. Get with the 21st century!” First, those people can get off my lawns. Second: Shakespeare, Mozart, Renoir, Pope, Homer, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Austen, Virgil, da Vinci. Need I go on? We don’t discard art from the […]
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Fine Arts Friday: sing and dance!
We’re still off the Ambleside schedule since they break for July and August, so we’re picking up some songs we missed. This month, we’re adding some folk dance to our folk song. The song is “Mairi’s Wedding” (or “Marie’s Wedding”), and it’s a Scottish tune not even a hundred years old. John Bannerman wrote it for […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Summer poem
The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim’s jaunty grace; From my heart I […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Random
Mid-July isn’t the best time for thinking. Frankly it’s too dang hot to engage any muscle, including the brain. But you can listen to music and look at pretty paintings without much effort, so today’s fine arts post is a bit of random beauty. We haven’t faithfully followed the Ambleside schedule for folk songs, so […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Room to breathe
This post isn’t about fine arts as much as about creating the space needed to reflect on the goodness, beauty, and truth we seek to instill. Growing up, this was about the point of summer where the boredom really began to set in. In the olden days before video games (well, we had an Atari, […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Handicrafts
Since the beginning of our homeschooling journey, I’ve always been a bit gun-shy of crafts. When the kids were younger, it wasn’t that big of an issue, because preschool arts and crafts are about the level of my skill. But there are a lot of grotesquely creative homeschooling moms. Their craft projects original, interesting, and […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Phoning it in
Our latest (and last on the schedule) Pieter de Hooch: ‘At the Linen Closet” There’s an amazing amount of detail in de Hooch’s paintings, and it’s fun to open the bigger By improving the quality of erection, the medicine helps free cialis men being normal in the bed. Once the evidence of erectile dysfunction was […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Nature Walk
We’ve been at my parents this past week while my mom has knee surgery. Needless to say, we haven’t done much school and the kids have been left to their own devices while I’ve been going to and from the hospital. They’ve been great, but I knew we needed to take a break, so yesterday […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Exhausted
This past week has been camp week. MTG has taken the girls to Girl Scout Twilight Camp*, and I’ve taken the boys to Cub Scout Twilight Camp. I’m so tired it hurts. The main reason we study fine arts is to give our children a repository of beauty from which to draw. So today, I’m […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Birthday happenings
Today is MTG’s birthday, and he’s taken the day off. We’re going to see the decidedly unfine-artsy “Star Trek: Into Darkness.” Then we’ll probably take the kids to the nature preserve or something similar, and I’ll make him a birthday cobbler. That is to say, we aren’t going to be concentrating on a lot of […]
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