When we meet regularly with other women to read a classic, do an hour of nature study, or learn to paint with watercolors, we are demonstrating with our very lives that the world is worth learning about, our minds are worth cultivating, and people are worth loving. We model delight in learning something new, and we demonstrate what it looks like to find like-minded peers to encourage and to be encouraged by. Isn’t this the very thing we long for our children to do?

