Month: July 2015
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61.
Every summer, at the beginning of August, I begin my planning for the next the homeschool year. I spend some time reviewing my journal of what worked and what didn’t this year. I meditate on each child and where they are at developmentally. I watch and observe them. I tell them stories and take note…
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A few announcements…
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi This is what I have been doing this year – unfolding my own myth. It’s been there, packed away, shifting shape size as my life expanded and contracted. But it is only this year that I have…
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60.
A closer look at today’s quote: I have always been fascinated with the words, awful and awesome. The root word – “awe” – originally indicated terror and fear. To feel so reverent toward something because it scares you. Awful used to mean “worthy of respect and fear.” And now we use it to describe something that is…
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59.
Full lyrics to Off the Wall performed by Michael Jackson and written by Rodney Lynn Temperton: When the world is on your shoulder Gotta straighten up your act and boogie down If you can’t hang with the feelin’ Then there ain’t no room for you this part of town ‘Cause we’re the party people night and day…
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58.
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later…
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57.
There are many quotes from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, that I would love to include in my Book of Hours. The above snippet is from one of my favourite passages. A few sentences later, he writes: “The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.…
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56.
The tidying continues. Today we tackled the shed, the laundry room and the middle bedroom. This means that we emptied it all out and piled up items based on category. For those of you who are familiar with the KonMari method of decluttering, we are still in the discard mode and have just finished the first…
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55.
It’s time to pick paint chips for the almost-finished room. My three oldest daughters have to decide on a colour for their new room. We are giving them the Master Bedroom and my husband and I are taking the smallest bedroom at the back of the house. The three girls have decided on grey for…
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54.
Rhythm. Over the last week, I have struggled with posting here in the morning with house tidying and renos, outings, and a short trip to a friend’s cottage to pick up a child. We just haven’t been home. And if we are home, we are trying to live amidst the mess and the chaos. We…
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53.
Yesterday I posed some questions – Where do I want to place emphasis? Where do I want to turn my attention? How do I want to remember this one life and all its memories? There are two pieces of writing that I have referred to the most and for the longest time. I wanted to add them…