Episode 69: The Literary Life of Wendi Capehart
Today on The Literary Life Podcast, our hosts Angelina and Cindy chat with Cindy\u2019s longtime friend and, according to her, the \u201csmartest woman on the internet,\u201d Wendi Capehart. Wendi is an adventurous mom of many and has lived throughout Asia. Now she lives the life of an at home librarian caring for her disabled daughter and spending time with her 15 grandchildren. She also serves on the AmblesideOnline Advisory board.
Angelina starts off the conversation asking Wendi about her reading life beginning with her childhood memories of reading. Wendi talks a little about how books helped her survive and heal from the trauma of living in an abusive situation. They also discuss what the difference was for Wendi in leisurely reading and reading for school. Wendi shares some of the reasons she began homeschooling her own children, as well, and how she kept reading voraciously even after she became a mother.
Angelina and Wendi talk about the brain and changing your reading habits to digest and enjoy more challenging books. Wendi shares how she built a library while one a military budget and moving frequently. They talked about too many things to mention in this summary, but you can scroll down for the many book titles mentioned in this episode!
Commonplace Quotes:\u201cWe\u2019re all fools,\u201d said Clemens, \u201call the time. It\u2019s just we\u2019re a different kind each day. We think, I\u2019m not a fool today. I\u2019ve learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we\u2019re not perfect and live accordingly.\u201d
Ray Bradbury
Where science does not teach a child to wonder\xa0and admire it has perhaps no educative value.
Charlotte Mason
If Only I Were KingNow the story of Christ is simply a true myth, a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with tremendous difference\u2013that it really happened\u2013and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God\u2019s myth, where the others are men\u2019s myths. That is, the pagan stories are God expressing himself through the minds of poets, using such images as he found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through real things.
C. S. Lewis
by A. A. Milne
I often wish I were a King,
And then I could do anything.
If only I were King of Spain,
I\u2019d take my hat off in the rain.
If only I were King of France,
I wouldn\u2019t brush my hair for aunts.
I think, if I were King of Greece,
I\u2019d push things off the mantelpiece.
If I were King of Norroway,
I\u2019d ask an elephant to stay.
If I were King of Babylon,
I\u2019d leave my button gloves undone.
If I were King of Timbuctoo,
I\u2019d think of lovely things to do.
If I were King of anything,
I\u2019d tell the soldiers, \u201cI\u2019m the King!\u201d
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Towards a Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs
Honey for a Child\u2019s Heart by Gladys Hunt
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exup\xe9ry
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Rescuers by Marjorie Sharp
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major
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