Comments on: And to all a good night. http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/ my progress as I write, revise, send to my editor, re-revise, fact-check, galley-read, and promote a multi-volume history of the world. While living on a farm, educating my kids, and teaching. And doing a few other things too. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:35:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: nancypants http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-86002 nancypants Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:23:37 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-86002 Congratulations!! I hope you have enjoyed your much deserved time off! (With the peanut butter chocolates - my personal fave - it sounds like you have!) That is one of the most beautiful poems ever... How sad that I have never read it until now. Thank you for sharing it. How did a man write that?! What an amazing man to contemplate the thoughts of a mother so well... those are the things I've heard most new mothers say about what they imagine it would have been like for Mary... Congratulations!! I hope you have enjoyed your much deserved time off! (With the peanut butter chocolates – my personal fave – it sounds like you have!)

That is one of the most beautiful poems ever… How sad that I have never read it until now. Thank you for sharing it. How did a man write that?! What an amazing man to contemplate the thoughts of a mother so well… those are the things I’ve heard most new mothers say about what they imagine it would have been like for Mary…

]]> By: Kristina http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85990 Kristina Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:10:40 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85990 Congratulations & thank you for what I imagine has been a love/hate endeavor! I'm admittedly quite green with respect to the homeschooling subculture & have only recently stumbled onto your Well Trained Mind, & then a couple weeks ago, the website, & now this blog, & I have to say that I'm wide-eyed & intrigued. My own exposure & recollection of the ancient world & middle ages is at best, embarassing. Thank you for the tools with which to correct such an unnecessary ignorance! I have a 9 year old daughter, & 6 & 3 year old sons. I've been repeatedly frustrated for the past 2 year's of my oldest's school experience - the "one size fits most" approach to learning, & I've been ecstatic to discover the WTM world!! I officially withdrew my 9 year old from school, ordered most of what we'll need from Peace Hill Press & will begin the WTM adventure January 5. I'm thrilled & definitely nautious over what this will do to my world as I've known it. My daughter however, can't wait, because in her words, she'll "finally be able to just read!" If books actually offered physical sustenance, she really would order them for breakfast, lunch & dinner. We're at the apex of the roller coaster where I am frantically clinging to dear life & safety, & she's got her arms waving in the air with wild abandon & joyful expectation. Should be a meaningful, surprising & life shaping ride! Thanks for the admission ticket - I truly wouldn't have gotten on without it. I do hope you've allowed yourself some rest over Christmas - it's no small calling to enable & properly tool such a worthy movement - indeed you are doing it so well! Blessings to you & your's in 2009! Congratulations & thank you for what I imagine has been a love/hate endeavor!

I’m admittedly quite green with respect to the homeschooling subculture & have only recently stumbled onto your Well Trained Mind, & then a couple weeks ago, the website, & now this blog, & I have to say that I’m wide-eyed & intrigued. My own exposure & recollection of the ancient world & middle ages is at best, embarassing. Thank you for the tools with which to correct such an unnecessary ignorance!

I have a 9 year old daughter, & 6 & 3 year old sons. I’ve been repeatedly frustrated for the past 2 year’s of my oldest’s school experience – the “one size fits most” approach to learning, & I’ve been ecstatic to discover the WTM world!! I officially withdrew my 9 year old from school, ordered most of what we’ll need from Peace Hill Press & will begin the WTM adventure January 5. I’m thrilled & definitely nautious over what this will do to my world as I’ve known it. My daughter however, can’t wait, because in her words, she’ll “finally be able to just read!” If books actually offered physical sustenance, she really would order them for breakfast, lunch & dinner.

We’re at the apex of the roller coaster where I am frantically clinging to dear life & safety, & she’s got her arms waving in the air with wild abandon & joyful expectation. Should be a meaningful, surprising & life shaping ride! Thanks for the admission ticket – I truly wouldn’t have gotten on without it.

I do hope you’ve allowed yourself some rest over Christmas – it’s no small calling to enable & properly tool such a worthy movement – indeed you are doing it so well! Blessings to you & your’s in 2009!

]]> By: Allan McInnis http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85989 Allan McInnis Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:07:35 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85989 I thoroughly enjoyed The History of the Ancient World and I am looking forward with great enthusiasm to volume two. You probably need a rest ( our daughter-in-law is a published writer so we have some knowledge of the incredible effort required to publish a book), but at the same time, I hope you don't need a long rest. I will be waiting for volumes three and four. I have just begun re-reading The History of the Ancient World. Really, really great. Allan I thoroughly enjoyed The History of the Ancient World and I am looking forward with great enthusiasm to volume two. You probably need a rest ( our daughter-in-law is a published writer so we have some knowledge of the incredible effort required to publish a book), but at the same time, I hope you don’t need a long rest. I will be waiting for volumes three and four. I have just begun re-reading The History of the Ancient World. Really, really great.

Allan

]]> By: Mike http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85987 Mike Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:39:55 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85987 Congratulations! I've no doubt you've made the Middle Ages as interesting as the dawn of history in the first volume. Nice to see the book one step closer to publication. Enjoy your holiday and your break! Congratulations! I’ve no doubt you’ve made the Middle Ages as interesting as the dawn of history in the first volume. Nice to see the book one step closer to publication. Enjoy your holiday and your break!

]]> By: Virginia http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85983 Virginia Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:08:47 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85983 You really deserve a vacation! Enjoy! You really deserve a vacation! Enjoy!

]]> By: Steve http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85980 Steve Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:43:36 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85980 Glad I found you. Hope you have a nice Christmas! Glad I found you. Hope you have a nice Christmas!

]]> By: A Circle of Quiet http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85978 A Circle of Quiet Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:03:44 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85978 Madelaine and I both say CONGRATULATIONS on finishing the volume. She hopes your load is lightened -- for a bit, eh? Lifting my glass to you, my friend, DI Madelaine and I both say CONGRATULATIONS on finishing the volume. She hopes your load is lightened — for a bit, eh?

Lifting my glass to you, my friend,
DI

]]> By: James http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85975 James Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:06:27 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85975 Susan, I just finished your book "The History of the Ancient World," and I must say I am glad that the next one is going into publication soon. I can't wait to read it. I enjoyed this one so much, but you sort of left it on a cliffhanger. Not that we don't already know what happens though.... Great job on the book though! I read it like a novel, and I'm going to pre-order the next one. I can't wait! =] Susan, I just finished your book “The History of the Ancient World,” and I must say I am glad that the next one is going into publication soon. I can’t wait to read it. I enjoyed this one so much, but you sort of left it on a cliffhanger. Not that we don’t already know what happens though…. Great job on the book though! I read it like a novel, and I’m going to pre-order the next one. I can’t wait! =]

]]> By: Brandi Gunn http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85974 Brandi Gunn Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:09:05 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85974 Congratulations, Susan. I'm sighing relief for you. I commented on this post because the Yeats poem is so raw, surprising, and profound - it fits the Incarnation of Christ. Thank you for putting it here. There's surely some fleshy mysticism to Christmas that we have a hard time laying hold of because it's antithetical to the clean and twinkly wrapped-up version of Christmas our culture sells. But Yeats bundles it up and throws it like Tom throwing Chi. WONDERFUL! Congratulations, Susan. I’m sighing relief for you.

I commented on this post because the Yeats poem is so raw, surprising, and profound – it fits the Incarnation of Christ. Thank you for putting it here. There’s surely some fleshy mysticism to Christmas that we have a hard time laying hold of because it’s antithetical to the clean and twinkly wrapped-up version of Christmas our culture sells. But Yeats bundles it up and throws it like Tom throwing Chi. WONDERFUL!

]]> By: http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/production/and-to-all-a-good-night/comment-page-1/#comment-85922 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:50:20 +0000 http://susanwisebauer.com/blog/?p=218#comment-85922 Susan, thank you so much for the blood, sweat and tears. I can only imagine how satisfied you must feel. And thanks for the Yeats also. Here is something for you. For The Future by Wendell Berry Planting trees early in spring, we make a place for birds to sing in time to come. How do we know? They are singing here now. There is no other guarantee that singing will ever be. Susan, thank you so much for the blood, sweat and tears. I can only imagine how satisfied you must feel. And thanks for the Yeats also. Here is something for you.

For The Future
by Wendell Berry

Planting trees early in spring,
we make a place for birds to sing
in time to come. How do we know?
They are singing here now.
There is no other guarantee
that singing will ever be.

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