In a time when it is easy to be overcome by fear or worry, we want this series of blog posts to give you simple, gentle, and dynamic ways to reclaim an atmosphere of peace, joy, and wonder in your home. We can all then help shine light to the world by sharing how we are choosing beauty daily. Please join us by using the hashtag #choosingbeauty on social media.
#ChoosingBeauty – Day 7
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“…she will point to some lovely flower or gracious tree, not only as a beautiful work, but a beautiful thought of God, in which we may believe He finds continual pleasure, and which He is pleased to see his human children rejoice in.” Home Education , Vo.1 p. 80
-Charlotte Mason, Home Education (p.80)
“The First Flowers” by Paul Gauguin (1888)
Activities
Look: Study the picture. Notice everything you can and try to remember it. Imagine yourself in the landscape. What do you think the two women are thinking? I wonder why they are there. What time of day do you think it is? What season? Close your eyes. Can you still imagine the picture? Look again. Now look away. Tell everything you remember without looking.
Read: “Nan’s Blue Spring Flower” Outdoor Visits by Edith Patch, p.145-149
Observe: Take a look outdoors for wild flowers. Notice where they are growing; the shade, the sun, moist ground or dry? Tell all that you observe. Notice the shape of its leaves and its veins. Are the leaves velvety, smooth or glossy? Can you find bluets? If you like, draw a picture of your wild flower and its leaves.
Read: “Flower in the Crannied Wall” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Listen: “Préludes, Livre II, No. 5, Bruyères” by Claude Debussy, performed by Célimène Daudet
Share: What would you call beautiful about today? What delighted you? #choosingbeauty
Further Reading:
“The Bluets” Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock
©Charlotte Mason Institute 2020
