From The Commonplace
Guides
Short guides that carry the ideas from the podcast into the ordinary days of your home: habits and the will, family rules, the church year, afternoon tea, and a reading life of your own.
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back, 1904
I · The guides
For the home, a little at a time
Each one is a downloadable PDF: the why behind a practice, how we do it in our home, and pages to make it your own.
18 pages · Habit and the will
The Way of the Will
For the seasons when the whole house runs off course: how to turn your home back towards goodness, without manipulating a child’s will.
10 pages · Family life
Family Rules
The ten phrases behind how our family thinks, loves and acts, and how to write rules your own family will love, not just know.
13 pages · The church year
Liturgia
Learning to love through the church year: what liturgy is, how the seasons work, and how to bring them into your home a little at a time.
15 pages · Family rhythms
Benediction Table
Our afternoon rhythm of tea, Scripture, poetry, music and picture books, and how to begin one at your own table.
15 pages · Mother culture
2024 Literary Life
Principles and habits for a reading life of your own, with pages to plan the year and the books I return to.
II · The Bundle
All four, together
The Way of the Will, Family Rules, Liturgia and Benediction Table in one bundle, for less than buying each on its own.
III · For Common House members
Two more, inside Common House
Some guides live only in the membership library, alongside the monthly Q+A, minisodes and courses.
Members’ guide
A Thinking Love
Charlotte Mason asked mothers for a love full of intention and clarity. This guide shows the path from that vision to ordinary days.
Members’ guide · With the minisode
Crafting a Rule of Life
A rule of life, after the old monastic rules, for thinking, doing and loving toward a flourishing life. Made to use alongside the Rule of Life minisode.