I love books that transport me somewhere new, and Smith’s “Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series does just that. I get this urge to visit Botswana after reading these stories, and imagine I could go there and visit the characters. There are twenty books in the series, and the earthy groundedness of Precious Ramotswe will remind you of all that is good and decent in humanity. The second blog…
Sitting Still Like a Frog
Mindfulness brings with it a message of self-love, self-esteem and a general sense of “I’m okay. It’s all okay.” Twenty Seconds. A study done in a UK school found the attention span of students was only twenty seconds long. I have read and heard statistics like this quite a bit while studying yoga therapy and acupuncture. So when my son was 3 ½ or so, Shambhala offered a class on…
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Introducing: Mindful Charlotte Mason
“Pay attention not only to the cultivation of knowledge,but to the cultivation of qualities of the heart,so that at the end of education, not only will you be knowledgeable,but also you will be a warm-hearted and compassionate person.” (H.H. Dalai Lama, Live In A Better Way). Mindful Charlotte Mason gives mindfulness tools to homeschoolers in a simple, inexpensive and secular way, so that homeschool students and their families may experience…
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