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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 
11/16/18 ~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 
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 
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 
(pronounced, “wow.”) just one month this time. still make tea.
this month in executive functioning… rich suggested getting quinn a watch, and he wore the one i ordered for him all weekend and gave us frequent reports: “it’s 5:36.” we’ll see if it helps with time awareness . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ the wau of quinn 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, back yard, being a mama, celebration, coparenting, family, fibonacci, friends, gardening, gratitude, hexaflexagon, karate, lifelong learning, love, math, math for fun and glory, nature, parenting, pi, pokemon, science, screens as tools, wau, yu-gi-oh 
continued from part 1
watching the moon with quinn one night, we saw a dragon cloud overtake the moon, sliding up its nostril and eventually becoming its eye. though the moon was enfolded in wisps of cloud, the cloud was now illuminated from within. dragons are always . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ enfolded eggs part 2 4 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, back yard, being a mama, celebration, character, coparenting, drawing, family, folding space time, food, friends, galaxies, gratitude, handcrafting, karate, love, math, math for fun and glory, middle school, music, outside, pancakes, parenting, programming, rainbow, tall ships 
camp boss informed me that comments were inadvertently closed on the previous lifelong learner post. i have updated it so commenting is back on, and can only assume wordpress is punishing me for my 5770-word verbosity. i have not reformed myself, in fact this post is split into parts because it got out of hand . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ enfolded eggs part 1 Comments are closed abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, books, cardioids, cooking, drawing, eggs, enfolded, family, fibonacci, food, gratitude, handcrafting, hexaflexagon, karate, lifelong learning, love, math, math for fun and glory, music, nature, nerd metaphors, outside, parenting, pi, reading, science, snakes, spirals |
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