Circe Session 1 ?

The Circe schedule is posted and I am busy trying to decide which sessions to attend. Usually the Wild Bunch girls spread the wealth by attending different sessions. That gives us lots to talk about. Otherwise we would sit around looking at one another and twiddling our thumbs ;)

My favorite Circe speakers are Vigen Gurorian, James Daniels, Laura Berquist, Andrew Kern and Martin Cothran.* not in that order except that always and forever Vigen will be #1. Martin and Andrew usually do sessions where everyone is together which saves a lot of angst.


My first choice comes at 11:10 am:

Leigh Bortins

Life Interrupted: The Nature of Home-Directed Education

(This looks like a very practical homeschooling-type session)

James Daniels:

The Nature of
the Liberal Arts

Andrew Pudewa:

Teaching Boys and Other Kids Who Would Rather be Playing in Forts

John Hodges:

Colloquy A:
"If I find in myself
a desire which no
experience in this
world can satisfy,
the most probable
explanation is that
I was made for an-
other world"
CS Lewis

Martin Cothran:

Colloquy B:

I already know which session I hope to attend. While it was a tough choice it wasn't nearly as tough as it could have been.

Any guesses? Go ahead and comment and then scroll to see my choice. Which session would you attend?

I will give one hint. I tend to avoid the colloquies out of shyness and fear. You have to talk. I usually have something to say but then I feel silly. I did think in preparation for the conference and to really bring the conference alive for the blog readers who do want to attend and can't, we could post the colloquy questions as blog posts and discuss them.

So later on today or tomorrow I will start posting the questions. Please come out of the woodwork and participate. I am like the Apostle Paul, my writing is much better than my speech. I suspect that is true for many blog readers. If all goes well maybe I will be encouraged to actually participate in a real colloquy at Circe.


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And the winner is:

James Daniels: The Nature of the Liberal Arts.

Why?

Leah's session is probably the one most pertinent to my own situation and while Andrew Pudewa's may seem like the natural choice for a woman with 8 boys it is rather something I have down. That leaves James Daniels. The whole reason I talk about any of this stuff at all is that I am a Liberal Arts junkie. I was discussing the Liberal Arts with my dad when I was a 7th grader.
I am just very happy that I don't have to choose between Vigen and James once, not counting colloquies.

I will probably be putting out these Circe posts fast and furiously. Hang on.

*James Taylor is another favorite but he isn't speaking this year.