William Wordsworth Walking: Art, Work, Leisure, and a Curious Form of Consumption William Wordsworth spent a good portion of his life on foot, walking. Consider a sequence of Dorothy's journal entries: Monday the 14th, "Wm & Mary walked to Ambleside in the morning to buy mousetraps" (about 5 miles round trip); Tuesday the 15th, "Wm & I walked to Rydale for letters" (about 3 miles round trip); Wednesday the 16th, "After dinner Wm & I walked twice up to the Swan & back again" (3 miles), met Miss
This past April, I was able to attend the Ambleside Internship held in Colorado, along with two others. Each day started by us coming together with a group of approximately eighteen others to read, narrate and discuss Charlotte Mason's ideas. We were also given set times to observe in the classrooms. When I was able to attend different classrooms, I quietly sat and observed the teacher and student engage different subjects and ideas. Each classroom was a peaceful atmosphere to sit with the text
largest of the 11 national parks in England & Wales, containing over 1800 miles of footpaths through some of Britain's most beautiful countryside. I am sure that we were going to cover at least over half of the area. The area around Grasmere, Ambleside, and Coniston & Windermere forms the hub of the tourist activity during the summer months and are perfect places to base walking and camping trips which we were about to find out. We were gloomy and quickly began to comprehend the next three
Depression in America's Teens Teenage Depression. Everywhere you look these two words appear together as one, in newspapers and magazines, as well as in scholarly reports. Teenage depression is one of today's "hot topics" this among other teenage mental health problems, has been brought to the forefront of public consciousness in recent years after several incidents involving school shootings (CQ 595). The environment that teens grow up in today is less supportive and more demanding than