Togetherness. Resiliency. Safe Places.
You can still shop with us for Easter!
There is still time to gather something beautiful for Easter. Shop thoughtfully curated books, nature finds, and meaningful treasures.
Choose what works best for you—free local pickup at the shop, $5 local delivery, or shipping to your door.
Join us this Saturday from 11–2 as well, when we’ll have tables set up outside our new location for easy order pickup, a selection of spring and Easter books, and a small sale table to browse.
553 E. State St., Salem, Ohio - still a work in progress and busy creating inside the cocoon of brown paper windows but hope to open around May. We appreciate you supporting us in anyway you can during this time 🤍
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Now Matters for Then
"All the time, too, the children are storing up memories of a happy childhood...In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother's first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet growing time...And this, not for the gain in bodily health alone - [but also the nourishment of] body and soul, heart and mind...
...and think what a delightful possession for old age and middle life is a series of pictures imaged, feature by feature, in the sunny glow of a child's mind! The miserable thing about the childish recollections of most persons is that they are blurred, distorted, incomplete, no more pleasant to look upon than a fractured cup or a torn garment; and the reason is, not that the old scenes are forgotten, but that they were never fully seen." - Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1
It's never too late to begin to learn to see.
Together.
Come and join us as we follow along each week with Exploring Nature with Children: A Complete, Year-Long Curriculum designed to guide you and your family, step by step, through an entire calendar year of nature study. Want to find out more? Click here to see more details!
"Never be within doors when you can rightly be without." - Charlotte Mason
"All education is self education....All education is the acceptance and rejection of ideas." - Charlotte Mason
A (Nature) Study in Humility
Stoop down. You'll see more. It's where curiosity lives. (And your children). Become one of them again. There's a child inside all of us dying to go outside and play and pretend and discover; sit and watch and listen and learn. Humility is a posture necessary for science. Slow down. The absence of speed is necessary for poetry. Nature study is where science and poetry intersect. Beauty and truth are worthy of seeking, studying and savoring. Together.
"Pay attention, be astonished, tell about it." - Mary Oliver
curiosity, creativity and calm
Nature Walks
"Never be within doors when you can rightly be without."
"We were all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is unexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things."
"Let them once get in touch with nature, and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life." - Charlotte Mason
Explore Bravely
The things and thoughts you surround and immerse yourself in determine the course of life you will live, despite the weather outside the door.
Nature study has taught my children that every season and every rainy day has something to offer if we put on curiosity, attention, and the sort of humble consideration education requires.
“All education is self-education,” which empowers a person to Become what they were designed to Be, no matter what age or stage you find yourself.
Look for Beauty
Books and authors, ideas and memories, trees and birds and butterflies can be stepping stones for us in life - and comfy corners can be sanctuaries, as can cozy couches to read on with a child by your side, a table to feast at, a stroll by a pond and the painter who paints it.
Awakenings, validation, glimmers of hope and opportunity can happen everyday, even on the worst of them. We're here with you.
A Different Way to Shop: through Story and Place
through season, time, memory, nature theme, poetry, through the lens of youth or the childhood lingering in us all. Shop a real store, with a real story, with real impact. My name is Tricia and I would love to learn more about you, and help curate the perfect gift, or your next homeschool booklist...Thank you for being here.
