That Mason frequently invoked the metaphor of 'food for the mind' to convey the spiritual, non-material needs of a human being is hard to miss; her writings are sprinkled liberally with these references. As someone who thoroughly enjoys a good meal, I've always appreciated the imagery.
It is this everyday notion that I found myself returning to often this summer as I thought about and envisioned our next school year. Like a good idea, a truly living idea, it has been a quite fruitful one for meditation.
It was in this planning stage that I stumbled across a summary of Mason's philosophy in a 1926 pamphlet. I was brought up short. Here was a new aspect. Or, was it?