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there is a whooshing sound that always seems to accompany the passage of the month of may. i spend my weekdays pouring large volumes of water from one vessel into another, and while that is an oversimplification of what i do for my paycheck, it is how i choose to look at it when i . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ may wei  2 comments  abundance, gratitude, natural world, rainbow mondays  abundance, back yard, be the rainbow, birds, chop wood carry water, columbine, delphinium, flowers, gardening, gratitude, heart-shaped lens, honeysuckle, hummingbirds, love, nature, non-doing, outside, peace, photography, rainbow mondays, roses, spirals, wu wei, zen 
a long and winding hodge podge of learning and living that i have decided to stop editing and move on from… read at your own risk (warning! verbosity ahead!), and probably pour yourself a cup of tea first.
science fair! i had the privilege of being the . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ percolator Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, art, beach, being a mama, birthday, books, celebration, chess, cousins, cursive, drums, family, friends, grammy and grampy, gratitude, karate, lifelong learning, love, music, mythology, nature, new york, origami, outdoor school, outside, parenting, pi, programming, reading, science, time management 
it’s the merry month of may, with flowers brought to you by april showers, and the most likely month of the year in which rainbow mondays will take place on tuesdays. red: there is now more light reaching the leaves of our little japanese maple tree, because sometimes my husband participates in unauthorized dangerous . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ delphinious 2 comments abundance, gratitude, natural world, rainbow mondays abundance, back yard, bee's knees, being a mama, comfrey, delphinium, family, flowers, forget-me-nots, frog, gardening, gratitude, hummingbirds, husband, lilac, love, nature, outside, photography, plants, poppies, rainbow mondays, self care, streamline 
~rainbow mondays~ a splash of color on monday a photo study documenting the colors of the spectrum: the balance points between light reflected and light absorbed other posts you . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ winter wishes, spring sunbeams 4 comments abundance, gratitude, natural world, parenting, rainbow mondays abundance, back yard, being a mama, camp boss, cherry blossoms, family, flowers, gardening, gratitude, hummingbirds, light, love, nature, outside, pancakes, parenting, photography, plants, rainbow mondays, self care, spirals, spring, sunshine, tall ships, trillium 
long after today, i predict that the fragrance of lemongrass will bring me back to taking quinn to buy his first deoderant and my concurrent realization that i should really try to curtail my telling of such stories in public. and yet, i want to remember his assessment that, “i expected it not to be . . . → Read More: embarrassing 
i’ve been spending hours each day in a walk-in freezer, straddling two different lab jobs which is marginally better than a lapse in funding. the arctic cod eggs in my care are beginning to hatch, and the spring equinox felt like an auspicious occasion for their entrance. when i emerge each day from 2 degrees . . . → Read More: a pirate looks at 40 
lifelong holidays learning!
one saturday rich was working so i brought quinn to farmer’s market with me. i parked him in front of my display that i was building and had him put bundles of broccoli raab into a rainbow arch around the basket where the bell peppers would be going, and he . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ anthropomorphization of vegetables One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, celebration, christmas, computers, drums, family, farmer's market, gratitude, hawk, lifelong learning, love, moon, music, nature, origami, parenting, perfectionism, poppies, reading, screens as tools, sensory, tag, writing 
cue the soundtrack… the eleven by the grateful dead is the only song i know that has a time signature of eleven beats per measure! also, i liked that this version was recorded on 8-23-68, quinn’s half birthday, 50 years ago! if we add my age and his together right now, we get . . . → Read More: eleven ~ the time of returning 
it’s been a whirlwind week of fun with family in new york, and i have the rainbow to prove it. here is one of quinn’s hand-crafted birthday decorations, a rainbow octahedron, complete with barney the origami allosaurus, hanging in the rew kitchen! we’ll start with white, the most abundant color in this . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ snow colors 
when i was looking back through photos of quinn from 2010 for my previous lifelong learning post, which my hilarious husband said i should have titled two months to read, i found this little drummer boy… which seemed like a great way to start off this month of lifelong learning, during which quinn took . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ composer of his own destiny |
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