Starting Habits for Intellectual Study as a Mom | Mother Academia | Classical Charlotte Mason
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Starting Habits for Intellectual Study as a Mom | Mother Academia | Classical Charlotte Mason
We’ll learn how to meet and call on the Mother through practicing rituals and by strengthening our intuition. We will explore true internal beauty and restore the grace in becoming wise, older women. Many women have gone down this path before us, and we will also call on their guidance and wisdom to direct us as we proceed. We will offer compassion
... See morefrom Maiden to Mother by Sarah Durham Wilson
Sara Campbell added
- What I soon realized is that maintaining a firewall between my “mom” self and the rest of my self was making motherhood much less interesting. The rest of myself was being so challenged — psychologically, spiritually, philosophically, creatively and intellectually — by caring for my son. But I resisted it, and tried to keep care small because nobod... See more
from "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not To Lose Myself In It." by Anne Helen Petersen
Alex Dobrenko added
This is the ritual; it’s just that someone else performs it. So be it: the mother as monastic, a quiet Benedictine of the everyday praying for the world that forgets her, keeping a fire alive for the future when the gleam of transgression is dulled and the hubris of our enlightenment wears out.
from On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K. A. Smith