Description: Get to know the Headmaster and Headmistress, a retired Air Force couple who embraced homeschooling and settled on inherited land.
music (51322) books (16344) kids (6976) politics (3940) homeschooling (426) kings (198) large family (9) cabbages (5)
“He had no words to waste upon the idle groups who haunted the circles of fashion; a kind of intellectual avarice prevented him from casting his pearls away with a careless hand; he was a servant of the altar, not the high-priest of the drawing-room. An acute writer has remarked, that it is the province of mediocrity to talk, but of genius to observe; and it is singular how many of those with “the pale cast of thought Upon their brow,” have been defective in conversation. Virgil, Isocrates, Descartes, Chauc
Life, times, and correspondence of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D, by Thomas Millner
I wish I were like this. But no. In a crowd my brain goes into paralysis while unfortunately my mouth does not. No. It goes into hyperdrive, spilling out an endless supply of utter nonsense if I am lucky but more likely a bunch of obnoxious opinions badly stated that I later realize could easily be interpreted as insults and sneers. Or worse.