Such a beautiful reading of the Kavanagh poem. Thank you for mentioning it to me— and I line I keep thinking about. I love your plan for living with Innisfree with intention — and how wonderful it happens to be part of a community focus right now.
So glad you spent time with the Kavanagh poem, Amy. And so proud of your 100 Days project. I can't wait to see them in a grid--all the colors and the wry expressions!
My wonderful celebration package arrived this week! Thank you so much! My daughter immediately claimed all of the confetti hearts to share with her pen pals.
Kortney, I love how your gentle way of approaching poetry is in keeping with Charlotte Mason‘s philosophy of education as a Feast. We lay the table with delicious food and let the children eat as they wish. She loved to say: The mind feeds upon ideas. This is such an individual thing for each child. Just as we would never force-feed their bodies, we also respect the appetites of their minds, giving them only the best food, and letting them eat as they wish. Love the video! 🤍🔥
And yet, the kids have acquired a great capacity for memorization from your “inspire don’t require” ways. You remind me of that physicist I quoted yesterday who said that as educators, “What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.”
Such a beautiful reading of the Kavanagh poem. Thank you for mentioning it to me— and I line I keep thinking about. I love your plan for living with Innisfree with intention — and how wonderful it happens to be part of a community focus right now.
So glad you spent time with the Kavanagh poem, Amy. And so proud of your 100 Days project. I can't wait to see them in a grid--all the colors and the wry expressions!
Dear Kortney, thanks for introducing me to this luminous poem!!
I feel like those last three lines are what I'm after in my own poems:
Naming these things is the love-act and its pledge;
For we must record love’s mystery without claptrap,
Snatch out of time the passionate transitory.
I love this! The poem I memorize is “Yes” by William Stafford. Bruce Cockburn lyrics are good too. I consider him a poet as well.
My wonderful celebration package arrived this week! Thank you so much! My daughter immediately claimed all of the confetti hearts to share with her pen pals.
Kortney, I love how your gentle way of approaching poetry is in keeping with Charlotte Mason‘s philosophy of education as a Feast. We lay the table with delicious food and let the children eat as they wish. She loved to say: The mind feeds upon ideas. This is such an individual thing for each child. Just as we would never force-feed their bodies, we also respect the appetites of their minds, giving them only the best food, and letting them eat as they wish. Love the video! 🤍🔥
I don't even know how I came upon Kavanagh's poem. But yes, the video is stellar. More poems on the voice not only on the page.
I’m excited to have you join in!
Thanks for leading the way, Brian!
And yet, the kids have acquired a great capacity for memorization from your “inspire don’t require” ways. You remind me of that physicist I quoted yesterday who said that as educators, “What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.”
Thanks, friend 💙
Here's the quote from said physicist: https://numeralfive.substack.com/p/17-may