An ongoing monthly discussion on the principles that Charles Keeler laid down in The Simple Home in 1906, rooted in the aims and ideals of John Ruskin, William Morris, and locally, Bernard Maybeck, and to explore their application to the troubles and aspirations of our own time and how they may be relevant in today's society.
These discussions are open to everyone, but before attending you might want to read the very short book The Simple Home, newly reprinted as a paperbook available in bookstores or here as a PDF.
A chapter is also read each month during the discussion. In July, the chapter "The Garden" was read aloud.
ALL the arts are modes of expressing the One Ideal; but the ideal must be rooted in the soil of the real, the practical, the utilitarian.
-- Charles Keeler
