Northwest Passage

This morning we started on The Moral Compass: Stories for Life's Journey by William Bennett. This book has been so highly recommended by friends as a way of teaching children morals and virtues through stories. I am so delighted to have acquired it, a book of 824 pages for only $0.74 (at Valley Thrift store on Monday, their 25% off day). We read: Hush, Little Baby Cradle Song Sweet and Low What Bradley Owed Nails in the Post Northwest Passage The Hill Here's an excerpt from Northwest Passage by Robert Louis Stevenson: 1. Good Night When the bright lamp is carried in, The sunless hours again begin; O'er all without, in field and lane, the haunted night returns again. Now we behold the embers flee About the fire lit hearth; and see Our faces painted as we pass, Like pictures, on the window glass. Must we go to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face the undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed. Farewell, O brother, sister, sire! O pleasant party round the fire! The songs you sing, the tales you tell, Till far tomorrow, fare ye well! I can see why people can fall in love with poetry, and why it has been critical in homeschooling. Poetry develops one's creativity. Poetry extracts beauty from the mundane. Poetry ignites one's passion and love affair with metaphors. 9/17/2013