…. after Wildwood

Recently my friend Kristie told me that she thought the inspiration for our homeschool name of Wildwood was from Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

She shared a quote from the novel that had led her to believe it was a perfect fit.

After I read the quote – I saw that it was, indeed, a perfect fit.

And so now, although the name Wildwood wasn’t inspired by this particular quote but was instead inspired from the Wildwood Chronicles, this quote will be added to our official school quotes and will inspire us in the future.

We chose the name Wildwood because in the novel series Wildwood is this sort of mysterious other world right in everyone’s backyard basically in their own city. Yet, no one knows entirely what it is, how to get there, what happens there and there is question as to whether it actually exists at all. Inside Wildwood all sorts of magical other-world things happen – both good and bad. But Wildwood is its own world, filled with unique characters and grand adventure and hope and mystery.

And, well, I think our lives and homeschooling itself is kind of like that hidden wood.

And now this quote. This quote.

It speaks right to the next thing – the time after you have to leave Wildwood.

“Beyond the wild wood,” it says, “comes the wide world.”