…the wind bathing us in fresh air after a year in which breathing has become much more sacred, the eagle dancing above the rainbow-glazed waterfall… . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ caterpillar care
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 Leave a comment  abundance, gratitude, natural world, parenting, thankful thursday  abundance, back yard, beach, being a mama, cows, dad, elements, family, farm, gratitude, hiking, hummingbirds, imagination, love, nature, ocean, outside, parenting, photography, placenta, rocks, snail, spiral, talking games, thankful thursday, tidepooling, waterfall 
I’m not doing great, and I didn’t have to pretend I was. I could just stand there like a bedraggled flower and absorb some light, nothing required of me. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ bedraggled we begin 
…a never encountered dragon that could only be seen as a shadow or sometimes a bend in the light… . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ character building One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, black lives matter, books, coparenting, dragons, drift creek wilderness, dungeons and dragons, eggs, electronics, flowers, food, gardening, gratitude, hexaflexagon, hiking, lifelong learning, lord of the rings, love, math, nature, outside, parenting, peaceful protests, reading, science, storytelling 
Maybe life is a little like a parabola, you have to get to the bottom of it at some point, but you can look forward to it going back up on the other side! . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ black holes and parabolas Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, being a mama, black holes, books, celebration, drums, executive function skills, family, gardening, gratitude, lifelong learning, lord of the rings, love, math, mother's day, music, nature, parabolas, parenting, physics, quokkas, reading, science, stay gold ponyboy 
Hundreds of geese huddled along the edge of the bay as we drove through foggy smoke after picking up pizza for date night at home. Robins had sat in the grass all day looking stunned. So much dryness. So much stillness after such a turbulent wind. The lawn crunched under my feet as I pick pears up off the ground, embarrassed by the plenty falling into my hands while others are losing everything, or still waiting to hear the outcomes of their everything. . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ a list of emptied spaces 4 comments abundance, gratitude, natural world, parenting abundance, beach, being a mama, boats, boiler bay, concentrate the light, farmer's market, food, forest fires, gratitude, guinea pigs, hiking, hugging, lined chiton, love, max, ms b, nature, ocean, otters, outside, pancakes, parenting, photography, sea lions, sea urchins, self care, tears into the ocean, tidepooling 
As mama of a young man, I see it as one of my most important roles in his learning to make sure he is aware and competent around the concept of consent. By honoring Quinn’s integrity, boundaries, and self-direction in his learning, I am modeling consent. . . . → Read More: educational priorities ~ a mamafesto ~ 2020 remix Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, being a mama, connection, consent, dinosaurs, education, educational priorities, equity, gratitude, inclusion, integrity, interest-driven learning, learning styles, lifelong learning, long-term vision, love, math, music, nature, nourish, our living school, outside, parenting, reading, safety, science, self-directed learning, trust, yes environment 
These feathers have done their gravity-defying work and have performed valiantly, but their ragged edges are no longer streamlined, no longer serving to decrease resistance to the flow. . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ molting 
I’ve had his tea kettle on the back burner of my mind as a dear object I have been wanting to trace back in time in writing. Though right now it is sometimes better to keep a lid on the memories, there are days, like today, when it feels as comforting as a mug of tea to steep myself in treasured moments from the past. . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ tea kettle 
Wandering in a wilderness area together all day is unlike our hour-long video calls in all ways, but most acutely in that I am positioned beside the waterfall of his imagination like I have not been in months. . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ wilderness wandering 
After his first zoom lecture he told me about geometric morphometrics, which he explained very eloquently and I recorded on my audio recorder. I know he found that area of study quite intriguing – math plus fossils. . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ the morphometrics of distance learning One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, beach, dinosaurs, electronics, executive function skills, family, fossils, geometry, gratitude, hiking, hummingbirds, lifelong learning, love, math, music, nature, outside, paleontology, physics, programming, reading, robotics, science, tidepooling, vi hart |
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