“Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of a dark black night” ~Paul McCartney . . . → Read More: ~black and white wednesday~ feather light
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I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail Learn how to use my hands, not just my head I think myself into jail Now I know a refuge never grows From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose ~Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ raining roses  One comment  abundance, gratitude, natural world, rainbow mondays  abundance, back yard, beach, being a mama, bubbles, butterflies, crab, dragonflies, flowers, gardening, gratitude, hiking, lifelong learning, light, love, nature, ocean, outside, parenting, photography, plants, poppies, rainbow mondays, roses, tidepooling 
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 have always been fascinated with the tides. For me, the place at the edge of the ocean, where the earth, air and water converge, is where the magic and bioluminescence are found. When I was in college, a few of my courses contained lessons on what drives the tides, and while most of the . . . → Read More: tides 
paleontology camp! there was quite a bit of sand spilling out of the lint trap in the dryer as i restarted the bulging load of size 14 clothing for another cycle. Every pair of underwear but the two extras were worn; all socks; all shirts and pants; when the second batch . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ quercus quetzalcoatlus 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, beach, being a mama, fossils, gratitude, hiking, karate, lifelong learning, love, music, nature, ocean, oregon country fair, outside, paleontology, paleontology camp, parenting, plants, reading, science, subtitles, swim, tidepooling 
camp boss verbosity warning: please excuse the verbosity of this end-of-schoolyear/start-of-summer month of lifelong learning and grab a cuppa! pizza rolls and rubik’s cubes quinn and i solved his christmas stocking rubik’s cube this month! He is pictured showing the initial progress just after the first step of solving one side (the green . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ connections, finding eggs in unusual places, and the oxford comma 3 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, back yard, beach, being a mama, books, connection, family, gifted, grammy and grampy, gratitude, hiking, intensity, karate, lifelong learning, love, marching band, music, nature, ocean, outside, paleontology camp, parenting, reading, tidepooling 
The circle of life encompasses all, yet sometimes seems to have a frustratingly small diameter. Walking towards the Chelsea Rose to buy some salmon, my eyes glanced at each plaque lining the bay front, those on the many benches donated in memoriam, as well as the tiles cemented into the sidewalk, defiant attempts at permanence . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ circle geometry 
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 
he’s a certified car vacuuming technician from way back. (apart from normal you’re-part-of-the-household chores that are not money-earners, there are above-and-beyond chores that do provide that opportunity. running the shop-vac around the car is one of them, and motivated by a new deck of pokemon cards, the lad did a fabulously thorough . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ portal to the overworld Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, back yard, beach, being a mama, camping, celebration, certified technician, family, gratitude, karate, lifelong learning, love, mandalas, nature, ocean, outside, pancakes, parenting, theatre camp, tidepooling, trampoline, wedding 
the last lifelong learner post was posted over 6 months ago! wheeee, 2017! so it’s time for a lifelong learner catch-up series. do people binge-read blog posts? time traveling back to the end of april….
self-initiated dragon-drawing lessons. he got this book out of the . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ a may zing! 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, being a mama, certified technician, dragons, drawing, gifted, gratitude, history, karate, lifelong learning, linocut, love, native americans, nature, oregon, outside, parenting, pioneers, poppies, spirit animals, tidepooling, writing |
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