Down Addison’s Walk

 
It was a sort of pilgrimage. The dappled, windy day was bright around us as we ambled down the famous Addison’s Walk where C.S. Lewis and Tolkien had the midnight talk that pulled Lewis into the realm of Christian belief. We were a delighted pair to be walking in his steps and we had an [...]

Check Out Seanachie

For those of you who follow my story blog, I’m posting there again. (Yes, lounging in an English garden does have its creative benefits.) I’d be interested in any comments on the story, as it is in a very rough draft form and will probably morph into a quite different thing in the end, but [...]

Work

Hey everyone! Here’s a random, rather rambling essay containing some of my recent contemplations on the goodness of work. Especially when it is back among the old ways of garden and kitchen… Joel and I head out tomorrow for lunch and a tour of a nearby manor house with a gracious older gentleman from the [...]

A Hasty Hello

Well, the days fly by in windy beauty here! I’ve been wishing to post so much more often; it’s been a tricky challenge to get internet during our time here as everyone’s in the area has decided to go out. I’m now perched in a local pub with a cup of tea and have spent [...]

We’re here!

And finally almost past jetlag. We arrived on Saturday and have spent  lovely four days thus far. It is breathtaking beauty of an old English manor house here; gardens and summer fields, a rambling, Narnia-like old house and teatimte breaks every few hours. We are beginning our program of research more intensely today in between [...]

And so it begins…

We’re off! Plane tickets, train tickets, passports and clothes, all gotten, stuffed in massive suitcases (which we will drag through the train stations of England) and somewhat ready for our takeoff at 8 tomorrow evening. We have a direct flight into London and then will take the train down to the little village where we [...]

Sunny Day Tidbits

The all-encompassing blur of packing has come upon me. Four more days and then…England! I had to share these few tidbits however, as they brought me quite a bit of delight in the last couple of days.
First, for the mind, an interview with Gordon Pennington over at the Boundless site (Focus on the Family’s website [...]

Fragmented

I am uneasy of late, over the increasing fragmentation of knowledge. It is a concern that has grown slowly, only gradually dawning on me as I have delved deeper into the realms of childhood education and research in the past year. It began with my research into literature and my discovery of the shocking decline [...]

My Poem

I just thought you all might like to savor the lovely poem I received on my recent birthday, in honor of my foray into a new blogging of ideals. You can click on the tab at the top of the page, or just go here. May you see the “hue-strewn” fields today too!

Jacob

Well, you never know what half-baked poetic thoughts will be born of a morning devotion:
Come Jacob, come to Me,
Wrestle with your God.
We must fight for your soul.
There is fear in the morning,
And dread in the night,
And your heart has grown worn,
With the cold;
Of living for love,
In a bitter world,
Of hoping for light in the dark.
But [...]