I’ve been going through my Project 365 Flickr set, trying to get everything in order because my year is over. It has been over for weeks now, but I’m just today uploading the last of the pictures, overwhelmed at the end by the flurry of activity and the blizzard of photos I’d taken. I’ve gone [...]
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Project 365
Posted in Project 365 on February 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dreamer, keep dreaming
Posted in Project 365, adventure, books, field trips, homeschooling on January 19, 2009 | 10 Comments »
We knew we would be moving here at about the same time that we knew we would be a homeschooling family. I had a clear vision, a prescient waking dream: we would walk to a fabulous tea shop that was a gleaming gem of a local treasure, pull out our various books, and settle in [...]
A mid-winter pause
Posted in Project 365 on December 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Enjoying the little things. May the season of winter be full of them.
Putting Pen to Paper
Posted in Project 365, adventure, art journal, handmade on December 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Aside from a few ATCs, I haven’t drawn since we got back. I have sat down with my sketchbook a few times, but couldn’t. Just couldn’t. There was no spark. The four walls and the items contained therein seemed to me more like a dull banality, a constriction of the part of me questing for [...]
Delights
Posted in Project 365, handmade, knitting, recipe on December 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Sugarplums sparkling in the silver light of a cloudy afternoon. Sugarplums are so easy and so healthy. We only discovered them a few years ago, but they’re now something I look forward to most eagerly. The richness of the dried fruits, nuts, and cinnamon play off the brightness of the orange zest. The only sugar [...]
A Chance to Reflect
Posted in Project 365, adventure, handmade on December 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday I was invited to give a presentation about my 101 Things in 1001 Days project at a Fair Trade shop. It was a little nerve wracking, for though I give presentations weekly, they are about breastfeeding or losing weight and this was about me. In the days leading up to it, my thoughts kept [...]
Quotes and a Question
Posted in A Quote and a Question, Project 365, quotes on December 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
No matter what somersaults my mind turned, I couldn’t separate these two quotes today. They are far apart in my quotes journal, but neighbours in my mind.
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“No matter how much I try to be plain, people don’t accept me, so I might as well be fabulous.” Austin Scarlett
“We wouldn’t worry so much about what [...]
Everyday Moments
Posted in Project 365, adventure, homeschooling, parenting, quotes on November 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Small things easily overlooked, small moments easily forgotten, I want to hold you in my hands. Stay with me.
“The only way to traverse your creative path incorrectly is not to traverse it at all.” Jill Badonsky
“This then is the first duty of the educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.” Montessori
“The [...]
Reading Release
Posted in Project 365, homeschooling, parenting, quotes on November 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
And a tight knot releases.
There have been multiple happenings around here, little points all leaving ripples of reasurance. When I started to homeschool, I had visions of children reading to each other, of them reading for pleasure, of them reading to follow ideas because they had questions. I had plans to visit the local tea [...]
Light and Poems
Posted in Project 365, books, homeschooling on November 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The sun had risen but the light came from behind the banks of clouds. With a fresh snowfall, the world was suffused with a blue energy that softened and slowed the whole landscape of the city.
After I walked the dog and shoveled the walks, I entered the house to the welcome smell of ripe [...]
