We are stuffed full of satisfied feelings. We tended 3 gardens (two flowerbeds and our veggie patch) and created a whole new flowerbed. Yard work was done. A gloriously hot day with sun, sun, sun. We wore ourselves right out yesterday.
Today we woke to a cold, windy, cold morning. A big [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Productive Days
Posted in Project Spectrum, adventure, handmade on May 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Silly trap
Posted in Project Spectrum, homeschooling, quotes on May 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I fell in to a trap, eyes wide open. I am suddenly Rabbit instead of Pooh Bear.
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Simple:
Lesson from the flowers: simple is as simple doesn’t.
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The summer semester, which is supposed to be wide and open, with a feeling of spacious ease, is feeling a lot like the rest of the year. Instead of having wide [...]
Convergence
Posted in quotes on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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While I was doing some silent reading and copying poetry today alongside the kids two quotes struck me as worthy of being copied into my commonplace book – a book of quotations and passages – and as I went about my tasks this afternoon I realized that they speak together. These two quotes [...]
A Quote and a Question
Posted in A Quote and a Question, quotes on May 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
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“You do not have to create joy; it is an innate quality already within you, like the capacity to walk or be kind.” James Baraz
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What can you do to let joy play its part in your day?
Yellow Joy
Posted in Project Spectrum, home on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Project Spectrum colour is yellow. A glorious colour. I don’t wear much, but we’ve painted most of our house yellow. The whole house was grey when we bought it. White with grey-blue trim outside, grey with grey carpet inside. While we were in our first showing I sat on a stiff [...]
Weightless
Posted in home, recipe on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Spring, like a lightening of gravity, arrives.
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Not just a brown haze of buds filling the skies with a darkening smear, waiting, waiting, waiting for the warmth and sun… green is finally spreading across the blue.
Every year at this time I wonder why we don’t live somewhere milder. Somewhere with more time to live outdoors. Somewhere [...]
Yarn Conflict
Posted in handmade, knitting on May 21, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I’ve decided I want to buy about 5 sweater’s worth of yarn in the next few months. I’ve got a birthday coming up and, even if I don’t get the yarn as a gift (and Rainer and the kids have a list of affordable options to choose from), I’ll know I’ll get money and have [...]
Transformations
Posted in adventure, books, homeschooling on May 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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They arrived on Friday. Painted Lady Butterflies ordered from Butterfly Wings n’ Wishes. We separated them and housed them with their gelatinous food in small containers.
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Some were strong and burly. Others tiny and wee.
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I pulled out a book full of information on butterflies and moths on Tuesday and immediately sensed it was the [...]
A Quote and a Question
Posted in A Quote and a Question, quotes on May 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
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“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.” John Adams
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What poets are your friends?
Writing
Posted in adventure, homeschooling, quotes on May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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She saved up her money and [...]
