A.M. Pine – Hearth Ridge Reflections – Ramblings of Heart & Home

Summer 2024 Shelf TBR ABC Project

May 15, 2024 amyofhearthridgeLeave a comment

Hi 👋 friends! One of my little projects this summer will be to read/reread from my shelves! I also have a learning project that I will post about later, but for now, these are ones I’d love to pick up sooner than later! I’ll come back and cross off as I finish and hopefully I can chat a bit about the ones that really spoke to me. Even if it takes me the rest of the year that’s ok, too. Do you have projects like this for yourself? 😍♥️📚

A – Apple Bough by Noel Streatfield

B – Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

C – I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

D – Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (with my kids)

E – The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding

F – The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (reread)

G – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

H – Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry (reread)

I – Martha’s Vineyard : Isle of Dreams by Susan Branch (reread)

J – Jane & Dorothy by Marian Veevers and/or Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery (reread, with my kids)

K – Kristin Lavransdatter 1-3 by Sigurd Undset (online buddy read group)

L – Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

M – Motherprayer by Barbara Mahany and/or Memories of Childhood Marcel Pagnols

N – Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens and North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell (reread)

O – Orion & the Starborn by K. B. Hoyle (with my kids)

P – Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard ( reread, buddy read with my friend Kim! 😁♥️🌿)

Q – The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England edited by Antonia Fraser

R- Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey ( buddy read with my friend, Deea)

S – Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley

T – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

U – Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

V – Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge (reread, with my kids)

W – Walking on Water by Madeleine L’ Engle (reread)

X – Ox Cart Man by Barbara Cooney (reread, with my kids)

Y – You Are a Tree by Joy Marie Clarkson

Z – Oz books by L. Frank Baum (some rereads, with my kids)

What are excited to be learning, reading, doing this summer? 😄♥️📚

today I have so far…

May 14, 2024 amyofhearthridge5 Comments

Today so far I’ve: read my Bible/journaled while sipping black coffee from my lovely 🥰 pastel thrifted woodland creature mug, read some things I’m studying (more about my DIY Women’s Well Refresh later, hopefully), sent a reminder email for our local mom’s homeschool group, listened to Studio Ghibli soundtracks, took a short walk among the cool morning sunshine while listening to Magyk by Angie Sage audiobook (I’m loving it). I took a shower and dug out a comfy sweatshirt because it’s chilly today, I made myself a breakfast of plain yogurt, banana, cashew butter, cinnamon, and oats! I supervised children doing their maths and found sweatshirts for little kids planting the garden with their 15yo sister. I talked about dyeing things with dye made from dandelions and tried to figure out what to cook for meals today since the stove is getting a little TLC. I sent three older ‘kids’ off to various jobs, one having to borrow my van, because a car battery needed jumping. I talked about drawing books, schedules, and What is Poetry? by Michael Rosen with various family members. My 15 yo and I talked about how we can secretly make my hubby’s favorite mint bars for his upcoming birthday. I helped same child find wrapping paper for her gift. I’ve been praying and finalizing the book discussion, Scriptures, and end of year stuff to share with my mom friends tonight at the last meeting, I ended up dumping potatoes in the Instapot for a baked potato bar lunch. I’ve been listening with (thankfully) an amused heart to a recorder being played upstairs. I’ve been putting books on hold to read aloud and for planning our new home learning year. I’ve been digging into this blog for all her WONDERFUL inspiration and resources. I’ve been listening to this and something is stewing in my heart to share in my next article for Sisters of the Wooden Spoon. I’ve been reevaluating my health and my media usage, setting up accountability for both…

And it’s noon, now. 😁♥️ Time to return to this wonderful life I’ve been gifted, lunch, and the Winnie-the-Pooh audiobook, Pictures of Hollis Woods, On the Banks of Plum Creek, and narrations. I think I’ll cook some sausage on my pancake griddle 🤣 and put taco soup in the crockpot for dinner.

I share this because I’m just SO grateful for life and I love reading about other women’s days. 😄♥️ Bless your Tuesday. I’d love if you’d share below your day! 😍🌿

•birth•

May 10, 2024 amyofhearthridge1 Comment

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense, the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedient to the command. Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, “Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.”

Madeleine L’Engle

•build•

May 9, 2024 amyofhearthridgeLeave a comment

All that we build is going to be inspected by God. When God inspects us with His searching and refining fire, will He detect that we have built enterprises of our own on the foundation of Jesus? (see 1 Corinthians 3:10-15)

Oswald Chambers~

•away•

May 8, 2024 amyofhearthridgeLeave a comment

•fly away•

a swallow tattoo

on this heart

of mine

seasonal swoops

of satisfaction

freedom in a

fork-tailed

friend, black-blue

russet-chested

glad you are

back, right on time

my heart sorely

needed an ink-infusion

of set-me-freedom ~

A.M. Pine 🌲

•bursting•

May 7, 2024 amyofhearthridge3 Comments

The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing might be to experience more of that wonder.

Oliver Burkeman

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the “correct miscalculation,” for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

Yoko Ogawa

These two very different books have converged in my heart recently. I’m not finished with Four Thousand Weeks, but the sense I’m getting from both books is THIS moment you are in is what you have. Be grateful. Relish it. Wallow in it. Enjoy. I absolutely adored the audiobook of The Housekeeper and The Professor. How would you live if you had 80 minutes of memory before it starts over? What really matters in a person’s life? What is happiness? Do we need more, more, more of anything? Just bursting with gratitude for THIS moment.

What’s on your heart today? I’d love to hear! ♥️🌿🌸🪺🪴🌷

•obedient•

May 6, 2024 amyofhearthridgeLeave a comment

If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account. Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
Oswald Chambers