Highly Resolved

So I am pretending that January is just starting... I'll just have this month be a week or so shorter than last year.  Anyone else just starting up again? So, on with the new year! 

Across the water

Thinking of far away friends today.

We have lived abroad several times.  I can remember what it is like to be off on an adventure.

Monday Meditations - Resting

Do you ever just get tired?

Sometimes I think I live this secondary life. 

The sweep of easy wind and downy flake

One of my favorite winter poems:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

by Robert Frost (illustrations Susan Jeffers)

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

A World So Full

Dear CM friend, 

Here is a lovely description of how Nature Study can work in your everyday world of living.  Tammy wrote this article for the Childlight USA webpost: Adopting a Trail. It is doable, and these are common results from only a fall season, a semester.  And really, it's just a walk!  I need to get outside more - my consistency is, well, inconsistent!  I talked about this with my MOPS girls in November.  I think it is time to do something about it.  I'll tell you what happens!

Grace for the day,
Kelli