This week’s episode of Fairy Tail Series 2 is here, and it’s full of excitement and adventure! Get ready to immerse yourself in the amazing world of magic and friendship.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Unveiling the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

In this week’s episode, our hosts dive deep into their analysis of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. Angelina, Cindy, and Thomas share their thoughts on the second half of the book. They explore various themes, including the commonality of ordinary life, the different responses to terminal illness, the importance of a comforting presence, and the fear of death. Angelina also sheds light on the Orthodox metaphors and Christian imagery that enrich the story’s ending.

Summer Discipleship Course for Moms

Calling all moms! Cindy is thrilled to announce her new summer discipleship course exclusively designed for you. Head over to morningtimeformoms.com to get more information and sign up for this amazing opportunity. And that’s not all! Thomas and Angelina also have some exciting summer classes coming up. Don’t miss out, check them out at houseofhumaneletters.com.

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Commonplace Quotes

“The only inconvenience is that none of these projects are yet brought to perfection, and in the meantime the whole country lies miserably waste, the houses in ruins and the people without food or clothes. By all which, instead of being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair.”

• Jonathon Swift

“The humanities do not always make a man humane-that is, liberal, tolerant, gentle, and candid as regards the opinions and status of other men. The fault does not lie in any one of these or in any other of the disciplinary subjects, but in our indolent habit of using each of these as a sort of mechanical contrivance for turning up the soil and sowing the seed.”

• Charlotte Mason

“I should be cautious of censuring anything that has been applauded by so many suffrages.”

• Samuel Johnson

O Child Beside the Waterfall

by George Barker

O Child beside the Waterfall,
what songs without a word
rise from those waters like the call
only a heart has heard-
the Joy, the Joy in all things rise
whistling like a bird.

O Child beside the Waterfall
I hear them too, the brief heavenly notes,
the harp of dawn, the nightingale on the leaf,
all, all dispel the darkness and the silence of our grief.

O Child beside the Waterfall
I see you standing there
with waterdrops and fireflies
and hummingbirds in the air,
all singing praise of paradise,
paradise everywhere.

Book List

• The Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell
• School Education by Charlotte Mason
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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