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~august 23 – setpember 23, 2018~
i picked quinn up from his dad’s, and received the tour of his self-built kayak, including the original concept drawing, the official plan drawings of the eleven, and the 11-foot-long boat itself! quinn explained the parts he did himself, including drawing . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ middle school debut  One comment  abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting  abundance, advice about girls, algebra, asynchrony, being a mama, boats, books, coparenting, family, food, grammy and grampy, gratitude, intensity, karate, life of fred, love, math, music, outside, parenting, pomegranates, poppy, pythagorean theorem, reading, science, scutoids, shirt on backwards 
over time, i have filled in gaps in my blog, and the final frontier that has been awaiting its day is the time between quinn’s third and fourth birthdays. i established the blog just after he turned 3, but was not posting thorough updates again until just before he turned 4, when i posted the . . . → Read More: archive update ~ quinn age 3 ~ haul away on the one unbroken line 
11/23/18 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 23 today i am grateful for a full day to relax and cook only with my microwave.
11/24/18 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 24 i am grateful for color; the rainbow veggies of market, the orange and yellow leaves of the vine maples, the red violet of . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ in which we sing the last verse 
11/16/18 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 16 “time is but the stream i go a-fishing in. i drink at it; but while i drink i see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” ~henry david thoreau not that long ago, i was reading buoy . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ it’s working 
11/8/18 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 8 there is the usual ebb and flow of the gratitude juice, modulated by snags in the fabric of my experience that focus my gaze inwards, and then disasters both natural and unnatural that draw my gaze back outward again. each time the latter occurs, the gratitude surges . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ snails, whales, puppy dog tails 
a quaint little rainbow slice of life… rainbow: even now, some rainbow flowers are still adorning my windowsill, though the last of the dahlias are finally succumbing to frost. (these were from a few weeks ago.) red: this one is slightly anachronistic as well, from early september, the end of melon season. found . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ droplets of moonlight 
11/1/18 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 1 unlike last year when i debated joining in on 30 days of gratitude, this year it was a no-brainer to sign up for a third season. a few of the odds are stacked in my favor, such as my husband being away at play rehearsals on week nights . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ third annual nacho november 
a gentle indian summer exhales its smoky spiced cider breath easterly across this season of harvest. meanwhile, i experience the ebb of summer as a riptide so rapid that it threatens to pull me under. tumbled around and pummeled by a tempest of tasks, toppling piles of things, trips to take, transitions to tackle. a . . . → Read More: riptide 
this will be less verbose than some, but it is time to reconnect via rainbow… rainbow: portrait of the artist as a tidepool… rainbow: dahlias and hydrangeas being the rainbow. rainbow: anemone and seaweed being the rainbow, too! rainbow: heck, even a double-trailered coca-cola truck on a highway in idaho is . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ every little thing is gonna be ok 
quinn and i went to the pool several times this month, and he made some progress on learning to swim. the pool was almost empty and we had an hour each time to work on swimming skills. he is motivated to practice and a huge milestone was putting his ears in the water . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ playing games, gaming plays 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, books, coparenting, family, food, friends, games, grammy and grampy, gratitude, infinity, karate, life of fred, lifelong learning, love, math, math for fun and glory, music, nature, outside, parenting, pie, programming, reading, theatre camp |
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