photo by Cathy Koetsier
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Less control, more learning
photo by Cathy Koetsier
Friday, April 12, 2024
Intelligent choices
SandraDodd.com/choice
photo by Cátia Maciel
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Sometimes sitting on the fence is good
Make the better choice.
SandraDodd.com/betterchoice
photo by Lisa Jonick, of her chickens avoiding snow
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
"Mindset"
If I've been listening to, talking about, singing or playing music for a few hours or days, I think in music more than usual.
When a long conversation about politics occurs, I might dream about those things. My brain needs to shake itself loose and re-set.
Twice this week I have played a card game called "Blink" with young grandkids, two different sets of them. With no numerals or words, cards are played to match by number, color, or shape.
When I was looking for a photo for Just Add Light, I saw this one and thought One; black; bird. Round; red.
It reminded me sweetly of four children who are, this week, five, four, three and two years old.
If mindsets can be affected and changed, try to lean toward music and laughter when you have the option.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Don't break the spell
Thoughts don't show. Provide opportunities and time. Watch quietly. Don't break the spell.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, December 5, 2022
Slack and choice
Feeling like a good parent is huge. The opportunity to be successful every day at something with immediate feedback (hugs and smiles and the little-kid happy dance) is rare in the world. But giving children more slack and choices creates more slack and choice for the parent, too.
If it's okay for a child not to finish everything on his plate, might it be okay if the mom only cooks what he likes next time? Or makes the best parts in new ways? Not every meal has to look like the centerfold of a cookbook. If children can sleep late, maybe the mom can too. If children can watch a silly movie twice, maybe the mom gets to be in on that. If a child (or a seventeen-year-old) wants to watch a butterfly for a long time, perhaps the parent will have the priceless experience of watching her own child watch a butterfly.From "Changes in the Parents," page 268 (or 309), The Big Book of Unschooling
which links to SandraDodd.com/change
photo by Sandra Dodd
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, August 29, 2022
Twirling, swirling
All learning is connected, and everything counts.
photo by Cátia Maciel
Sunday, July 31, 2022
More and more moments
If something is good for a moment, it doesn't take a bunch of planning, and it doesn't need to be reported or documented. It can just be a good moment.
And when people get more and more practice doing what it takes to create or accept or recognize those moments, they can have more and more of them.
photo by Sandra Dodd,
candid moment of Much Green
Friday, July 8, 2022
Like working a puzzle
Picture learning like piecing together a massive jigsaw puzzle.
With natural learning kids plunge into the puzzle wherever it seems interesting to them. They fit the pieces together here and there working all over the puzzle. They won't go in any particular order. They'll stick with one spot or jump about depending on what's most interesting to them. They'll stumble over new and interesting things. They'll see old things in unfamiliar places giving the unfamiliar places a sense of familiarity as well as intrigue.
—Joyce Fetteroll
photo by Sandra Dodd
Something looks like this:
color,
dishes,
flowers,
reflection,
toy
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Being nicer
The further I got from cynicism and pessimism, the more they jumped out at me when I heard them.
It's easy to be mean.
It's harder to be nice.
photo by Keith Dodd
Friday, June 17, 2022
Our touchstone was learning.
Peace and fun and learning, in various permutations, got us a long way.
photo by Colleen Prieto
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Slowly and sweetly
photo by Karen James
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Easily amused, and compassionate
Some people have snow while others have heat waves. Leaves turn red and gold some places while others have year-round greenery.
Expect the world to surprise you. Moments, days and years will have different kinds of weather, activity, and learning. The factors are too many to track, so flexibility and the ability to be easily amused or quickly compassionate will serve you well.SandraDodd.com/skills
photo by me or Holly?
This photo was saved in non-standard fashion; if it's yours, let me know. The image was saved as though it were Holly's or mine, but the lizard is quite green, for here.
Some days are full of learning and laughter and others are quieter.
photo by me or Holly?
This photo was saved in non-standard fashion; if it's yours, let me know. The image was saved as though it were Holly's or mine, but the lizard is quite green, for here.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Lamplight and color
I like facebook because I can see photos of my grandkids, of more distant relatives, of friends who live near and far, some of whom I've met in person and others I've known for twenty years or more without being in the same physical place.
This week, Karen James (probably with the help of her family) painted a couple of these walls different colors. I know this because she shared it on facebook.
Before the new colors came, though, I had snagged an image of lamps, thinking of the interactions of those various lights on Karen's art projects, her snacks, views of her husband and son, and her cat. I thought of how each light had a purpose, and a history.
Now, to all of that, add the thought of new colors.
What is commonplace this year—seeing others' homes at a distance in color, grandparents seeing grandchildren asleep in their own beds without leaving our own—is new, on Earth. Appreciation and wonder are appropriate reactions to these marvels. Try not to take wonders for granted.
SandraDodd.com/wonder
photos by Karen James
This week, Karen James (probably with the help of her family) painted a couple of these walls different colors. I know this because she shared it on facebook.
Now, to all of that, add the thought of new colors.
photos by Karen James
Friday, October 8, 2021
One thing to feel blessed about
—Jenny Cyphers
photo by Sandra Dodd
Something looks like this:
color,
dishes,
flowers,
reflection,
toy
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Growing things
photo by Holly Dodd
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Wordlessly and gently
photo by Karen James (her artwork, herself)
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Saturday, July 3, 2021
May your thoughts be merry and bright
Merry thoughts, fantasies, whimsies and dreams to all.
Learn Nothing Day is in three weeks. |
photo by Zann Carter
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Becoming more open
What I'm starting to realize (by what I've been reading and learning, and by my own observations of my experience), is that we can most certainly choose alternatives that can lead us to more openness (like choosing more positive words to describe how we feel about something, or genuinely trying to relax and see what our children and partners see in something they like, etc.). And that if we do it often, we can probably rewire our brains, creating new neurological paths and becoming indeed more open.
—Marta Venturini Machado
photo by Elise Lauterbach
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Something looks like this:
color,
game,
perspective,
shadow
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
The joys that come
photo by Sandra Dodd
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