Month: February 2014
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good fortune.
I am a little behind on my February prompts. In this post, I am going to try to include some of the other prompts that I have missed into this post. I feel a little emotionally spent and I’ve been offline trying to restore my depleted stores. Oh February, looks like you’ve got me on […]
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heart | (dis)connection | head.
A piece of my heart is approximately 8 000 miles away. I am combining yesterday’s prompt, “connection”, with today’s prompt, “heart | head.” There is a disconnect between my heart and my head. For the past week, as we made preparations for her departure, my head shoved my heart aside and took control. “Do you […]
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a feast for the…
A feast for the senses. When I first began homeschooling, I came across this description from Melisa Nielsen in her curriculum. This is what we give to our children when we homeschool. I loved that idea. Even if I’m not always preparing the feast, at least I can introduce experiences or give them opportunities that excite their senses. […]
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i believe.
To be honest, I wasn’t in the mood to write today. I felt February in my bones at 5:30am this morning. I wanted to stay curled up in bed and sleep February away. But instead I got up, grudgingly, and opened my laptop and stared at the screen for about 20 minutes. Sometimes I get […]
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radiant.
Astronomical definition: radiant: a point in the heavens at which the visible paths of meteors appear to meet when traced backward. I really like this definition. A good friend of mine is about to have a baby. She’s absolutely radiant. Dear friend, I can hear you blushing and your adamant denial. But I hate […]
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write the darkness.
(Ok February…hit me with your best shot. I’m going to go a bit dark here. Let’s see if I can come up for air by the end.) …ma per trattar del ben ch’i vi trovai, diro dell’ altre cose, ch’io v’ho scorte. (…but to treat of the good that I found there, I will tell […]
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awakening to the…
Sometimes I didn’t realize I was sleeping until I woke up. Is there an event in life that forced a change of direction in the trajectory of your life? Since I had my first child, I feel like I have gone through a slow awakening process. I was in a deep slumber, living my life […]
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a good day = connect the dots + a blank page.
We’ve been away for a few days and time to write has not come easy. To get back on track, I am deciding to combine the last three prompts in my post today, hoping to just write freely and see what develops… A good day includes a blank page and a connection. (Good days also […]
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what we inherit.
(This post is a day late because the prompt was tough. I had to sleep on it. So here it is after a little more thought.) I just finished our second Old Testament block for Grade 3 with #3. We used Jakob Streit’s Journey to the Promised Land. I told her she would be hearing stories about […]
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be still.
“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat.” – Lao Tzu *** My mind wakes up first. The ticker tape of to-dos float across it. Activity conquers cold. My heart wakes up second. It races. I inhale. I exhale. Stillness conquers heat. My body wakes up third. I move quickly. I put on my training clothes. […]