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Writing

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:56:36 GMT

"The movement of writing, for someone keeping a journal or writing a novel, article, or speech, is always the same. First you go down. Writers are always consumed with the need to connect. That can't be done until you have gone far enough into yourself to find your own deep feelings...
It's not that the reader has to agree, not even after reading the story. It's only that the reader must be persuaded enough to care."

---Donna Sinclair

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curriculum

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:20:27 GMT

Here is what I learned at the Bible Workbench in Boston yesterday: "the student is the curriculum"

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Cello!

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:43:34 GMT

*Star Date* -- the day that I picked up my cello again with the intention of working back to the point where I stopped in January 2006. Played for about three-quarters of an hour, but I could not stop. I played not for perfection, but to get the feeling back into my fingers and for intonation from Suzuki Book Two. Long,Long Ago; May Time; Minuet No. 1,Bach; Minuet No.3,Bach; Chorus from 'Judas Maccabaeus,'Handel; Hunter's Chorus; Musette from English Suite No.3, Bach; March in G,Bach; (skipped The Two Grenadiers and Gavotte, Gossec); Bourree, Handel. Then, just for fun, the Berceuse by Schubert at the beginning of Book Three and the first page of the first Kummer Duet for two cellos from Opus 22.

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August Haiku

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:29:18 GMT

Hanging wash, hot sun,
the cicada's sizzling drone,
such soft memories.

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High Summer

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:25:11 GMT

Tomato Progress

Yes, this is a tomato about one inch in diameter. All the other blossoms seem not to have metamorphosed into fruit. Will we eat homegrown tomato this summer? Stay tuned...

Marjorum with Maple Seedlings

The ubiquitous Maples of New England

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Mother Bears

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:31:34 GMT

These Mother Bears are going on a mission trip with 25 nurses to Haitian migrant workers in the Dominican Republic to bring love and comfort to children seeking medical care.

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Laundry and Storm Coming

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:01:00 GMT

Laundry

Storm Coming

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Patty's Water Garden

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:41:31 GMT

Views from the patio under the grape arbor

Buddha by the Water

Other: Rose Bush in Bloom and Progress of Tomato Plant

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June is busting out all over

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:40:19 GMT

The Golden Corner with blooming Daisies and Yarrow

Peonies

PEONIES!

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Thalassa, thalassa mou, thalassi mou, thalassaki mou

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:29:48 GMT

Pictures laboriously retrieved from camera to computer, from computer to flickr and from flickr to dreamwidth.

Ocean and Sky

View from Cottage

The best ice cream on the coast

This took two hours, but I hope that it will go better next time.

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badman report on home education

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:03:10 GMT

In response: After an adult lifetime spent teaching school I believe the method
of mass-schooling is the only real content it has, don't be fooled into
thinking that good curriculum or good equipment or good teachers are the
critical determinants of your son and daughter's schooltime. All the
pathologies we've considered come about in large measure because the
lessons of school prevent children from keeping important appointments
with themselves and with their families, to learn lessons in self-
motivation, perseverance, self-reliance, courage, dignity and love and
lessons in service to others, which are among the key lessons of home
life.

--- John Taylor Gatto

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Correction

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:56:46 GMT

19600 stitches plus the four corners,800 = 20400. That makes me feel better. I like rounding up.

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Border Stitches

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:39:57 GMT

Correction: That is 980 stitches times 20 rows = 19600 stitches.

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Log Cabin Blanket

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:36:56 GMT

Steps 1 and 2 are completed! All 12 blocks have been knit and sewn together. All that remains is knitting the border.

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June Garden

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:59:44 GMT

tomato plant 6/5/09

coral bells

blue flax

amsonia

southern border: kalimeris, liatris and salvia

western/golden corner

lavender

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Julia Spencer-Fleming

Thu, 07 May 2009 11:30:35 GMT

A dream came true last night. My daughter and I traveled to the Goodwin Library in the small town of Farmington, N.H. to see my favorite living mystery writer, Julia Spencer-Fleming. For those, who don't know her, she is the author of a series of six, and one on the way, mysteries featuring the Chief of Police and the female Episcopal priest of a small New York town on the edge of the Adirondack Mountains. Each book consists of a self-contained mystery, but there is an overall arc in the six books which follows the mystery of the relationship between these two characters.

Spencer-Fleming is a terrifically talented writer, who balances exciting mysteries, the in-depth study of characters and their relationships to one another and to God, and the exploration of social issues deftly and seamlessly arising from the characters and the plot. In addition, underlying all are the profound issues of life, death, sin, and salvation.

So important are these themes, and so excitingly presented, that four years ago I chose to lead a study group in the Episcopal Church where I worked as a director of religious education based on the first book, In the Bleak Midwinter. The seasons of the year and the liturgical seasons are of significance in this series. In the Bleak Midwinter takes place, as the title suggests, during the meteorological season of Winter and the Christian liturgical season of Advent, the preparatory period of waitingfor the birth of Jesus. Our study group met once a week during Advent and was full of lively discussion and debate. I heartily recommend this series for reading and for book groups, and particularly for church study groups.

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Ravelry

Fri, 01 May 2009 12:23:26 GMT

Here I am on the latest big thing, dreamwidth, but I have to confess thatI am much more excited about having opened an account on Ravelry, a knit and crochet community. There are over 300,000 members on Ravelry.

I need to learn how to post pictures so that I can catalog my knitting projects. In the meantime I have been busy searching for and joining groups---groups of friends who both craft and share something else in common.

So far I have joined eight: Crafty Gardeners (self-explanatory); La Leche League International (I was a leader for 14 years); AP Knitters (attachment parenting); Mother Bear Project (knitting teddy bears for children orphaned or otherwise affected by AIDS in third world countries); Yarn Harlot fans (an author who writes about knitting and life and stuff); and two religious groups---Via Media (Episcopalian knitters); and OrthoCrafters ( Eastern Orthodox knitters, mostly converts, it seems); and Vermont Knitters, a piece of nostalgia for my childhood home. I am mostly going to be reading for now, but I am very excited where I seem to belong.

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