From the music of the spheres to the music of our own solar system, fifteen is a special number. . . . → Read More: fifteen~love
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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 
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 One 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 
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 
I am grateful for the spontaneous dates of early summer: breakfasts, coffees, and cocktails with popcorn outside in our Adirondack chairs by wedding trees. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ if the weather holds 
“Time for a lesson on the Cretaceous Paleogene extinction real quick.” . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ parsimony 
My brother’s laugh is one of my very favorite laughs in the world, and one of my very favorite things about him, and it would not be a disappointment if Quinn inherited this trait. Even if it is for a temporary period, I’m thoroughly enjoying the way his laughs ring in the air, jingling like the bells at the upper reach of his mallets, perhaps because they contrast so with his new low speaking register in the timpani section. . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ not so little drummer boy Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, band, being a mama, books, celebration, christmas, coparenting, drums, elements, gratitude, karate, lifelong learning, love, math, music, nature, pancakes, parenting, periodic table, reading, rubik's cube, solstice, thanksgiving, turing tumble 
So many treasures I just took pictures of, but these two came home. I wish I could have taken home the lanky teen treasure, but I just took pictures of him as well. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ a time to refrain from embracing 
I worked on the Haunted House that day, and I’m still not sure why slicing into a salt dough brain, spray painting creepy skulls onto plastic tablecloths, and developing a menu for a haunted cafeteria was so satisfying, but I strangely enjoyed myself. When I got home, we had dinner on the earlier side and Quinn asked me to play his new game he was creating. It was a build-your-own Jurassic park game, and I managed to accumulate 8 triceratopses in a forest enclosure on a piece of graph paper that evening. . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ enigma 
Time feels like it moves along like a Fibonacci sequence, spiraling ever more quickly, in bigger bites each year. It does feel like he was 1 for a while, then 2, then 3, then started jumping from 5 to 8 to 13, soon he’ll be 21 and before I know it he’ll be 34! . . . → Read More: lucky thirteen |
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