Sunday, May 26, 2019

Abigail the Graduate




  • MuseScore night vigils because when inspiration hits, compositions must be composed. These are some of the easier fragments, because I haven't practiced most of them.
                                                      

Christianity and Apologetics
Culture and Current Affairs
Piano and Accompaniment and a bit of singing




Some fave books
  • The Bible
  • A Child's Geography of the World, by V. M. Hillyer
  • Aesop's Fables, by Aesop
  • A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Animal Farm, by George Orwell
  • A Ready Defense, by Josh McDowell
  • Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink
  • Calico Captive, by Elizabeth George Speare
  • David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  • Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
  • Heidi, by Johanna Spyri
  • How to Be Your Own Selfish Pig, by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
  • Jane Austen's novels
  • Joan of Arc, by Mark Twain
  • Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
  • Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
  • Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
  • Little Britches series, by Ralph Moody
  • Little House series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little Women series, by Louisa May Alcott
  • Melendy Quartet series, by Elizabeth Enright
  • Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis
  • Mind Invaders, by Dave Hunt
  • Parables from Nature, by Margaret Gatty 
  • Scholastic Phonics readers
  • Shakespeare's plays
  • The Adventures of  Tintin, by Herge
  • The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis
  • The Fallacy Detective, by Hans and Nathaniel Bluedorn
  • The Gammage Cup, by Carol Kendall
  • The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle
  • The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
  • The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss
  • The Walls are Talking, by Abby Johnson
  • The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
  • Trial and Triumph, by Richard Hannula
  • Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Unplanned, by Abby Johnson
  • Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
Some Favorite Poets
  • POETRY
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Christina Rossetti
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • James Whitcomb Riley
  • Robert Frost
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Walter de la Mare
  • William Shakespeare
  • William Wordsworth
Some Favorite Musical Pieces
Some Favorite Folk Songs
  • ARTIST STUDY
  • Edgar Degas
  • James Whistler
  • Johannes Vermeer
  • Mary Cassatt
Nature Study aka Roaming around God's world.
As long as it's above zero degrees Celsius, one gets outside to walk and observe nature.
Outdoors.
Outside.
Out there.
Not inside.
Therefore snowsuits are a necessity, not a luxury.

Gainfully Employed
@ Martin's Supermarkets


 Sewing and Dressmaking
In the baby stages at home and with the ladies @ Sew Loved


 Minimalism
Applied to nearly ALL earthly possessions, sometimes over-zeeleeusly, lacking foresight of what might come in handy one day in the distant future, mom says.

Some favorite book phrases
  • There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
  • A great splash and smear of blacking appeared on the white-and-gold wallpaper. 
  • Buy Skunk brand perfume. You will stand out from the crowd.
  • "Coming, ma'am." Dove turned over for one more snooze.
  • Cousin Ann, with her bright, dark eyes, and her straight back, and her long arms, and her way of speaking as though it never occurred to her that you wouldn't do just as she said--Elizabeth Ann was not sure that she liked Cousin Ann, and she was very sure that she was afraid of her.
  • Down went the highest pair of heels, up rose the smokiest gentleman...carefully cherishing his cigar between his fingers...and a countenance expressive of nothing but sleep.
  • For a moment Muggles and Mingy looked at each other, and then, in the awful waiting silence, they too rose and walked out.
  • "Glorious, stirring sight...the poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel...Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped...
    All those wasted years that lie behind me...what carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset! Horrid little carts--common carts--canary colored carts!"
  • "Go back to the place from whence you came, and do not show yourself here again in a hurry."
  • "He is the son of one Say-well. He dwelt in Prating Row, and is known to all that are acquainted with him by the name of Talkative of Prating Row; and notwithstanding his fine tongue, he is but a sorry fellow."
  • He lifted up the baker's boy and set him on the top of the haystack, which was about sixteen feet from the ground, and then he sat down on the roof of the cowshed and told the baker's boy exactly what he thought of him.
  • "I would rather read five lines in the Bible than hear five masses in the church."
  • Later on, my mother and I started leafing through the magazines. Soon we were nearly steaming with anger and frustration--and feeling anything but relaxed.
  • Mr. Micawber, with a perfect miracle of dexterity or luck, caught his advancing knuckles with the ruler, and disabled his right hand. It dropped at the wrist, as if it were broken. The blow sounded as if it had fallen on wood.
  • ...they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones, and flavored with wild garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow bones of wild oxen; and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas.
  • "Thou hast called me into Narnia, Rishda Tarkaan. Here I am. What hast thou to say?"

A few documentaries and other vids

Culinary
Currently the resident chapati queen, up to eighty at a time. Other than that the experiments rage on and on.

Gardening
Incompetent.

Math with Khan Academy

Some Periodicals of Interest
Some Things I Memorized


School has been a unique journey, one that I will never forget. Mom has shown us that school is not just about passing tests to nail that six figure career, but for learning about our Lord and Savior, learning how to defend the faith, how to discern between good and evil, exploring our Father's world, reading the classics for discernment and real enjoyment, and learning the practical skills of life that everyone needs.
Mom has always been a firm believer in doing Bible study before anything else, because "even if nothing else gets done, it's been a good day." I plan to continue learning throughout my life, and these first thirteen years have been a great blessing.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
-Proverbs 9:10


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Christie said...

This is incredible! How cool to see this and to hear these thoughts. Thanks for sharing!

Thursday, June 06, 2019

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