Passing On Good Patterns to Children by Working Side by Side with Sophia Perrin
What do children remember most?
Podcast
Composed: Timeless Ways of Living
In this podcast, author and poet Christine Perrin interviews women (and some men) to discover how they have composed a life of meaningful patterns and routines that give life to themselves and their families.
Episodes
Preparation and Fulfillment: The Family and the Christian Imagination
What if composing a meaningful life begins not with finding the perfect routine, but with learning to love and practice the good things already in front of us?
Relational Education: Love, Friendship, Attention and Return with Grant Holbrook
What if some of the most formative patterns in a life begin with simple obligations, reading the same book again, walking the dog each morning, showing up for students, or staying rooted in one place?
The Life An Education Makes with Elspeth Currie
What if the books you read at sixteen, the habits you formed in a classroom, or the things you learned simply because they were beautiful were never meant to “pay off” only in a career?
What the Seasons Can Teach Us About Work, Rest, and Raising Children with Kerry Hasler-Brooks
What if a flourishing family life depends less on doing more and more on recovering rhythms of work, rest, attention, and belonging?
Living Like a Human with Elizabeth Lynn
What helps a child learn, a family flourish, or a community grow strong?
Beauty Is Not a Luxury with Nadezhda Gribkova
What we attend to quietly shapes the people we become.
How Small Habits Fill a Life with Nadya Williams
What if the life you long for is formed one teaspoon at a time?
Jesse Hake on the Living Patterns of Reading, Naming, and Belonging
What if the books we read aloud, the walks we take, and the names we learn for the world around us are not small extras, but central ways of forming a life?
Catherine Prescott on Seeing the Human Person
What if learning to see another person clearly is one of the first steps toward wisdom?
Theology of the Body and the Shape of a Life with Alicia Coyle
What does the body reveal about vocation and our search for communion?
Growing Up Classical: Literature, Wisdom, and the Questions We Carry
What does it mean to grow up classical, and how can the great books help form a young person’s moral imagination?