photo by Janine Davies
Showing posts with label flags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flags. Show all posts
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Merriment and peace
photo by Janine Davies
Something looks like this:
festivity,
flags,
window,
windowsill
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
It's about learning.
photo by Nina Haley
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Your happy, whole heart
I wrote:
I can't say. Even if most were, your own kids might not be. Even if most weren't, your own kids might be.
If what you do is better than school, for your kids, keep doing that. If school would be better than what you're doing, for your kids, in their real lives, then do that.
If you're going to unschool, do it wholeheartedly and happily.
photo by Janine Davies
Something looks like this:
flags,
friends,
wheelbarrow
Monday, January 25, 2016
All kinds of things
"Homeschooled children who grow up in a stimulating and enriched environment surrounded by family and friends who are generally interested and interesting, will learn all kinds of things and repeatedly surprise you with what they know." —Pam Sorooshian |
photo by Abby Davis
Friday, August 14, 2015
Unique knowledge
Carefully considered thought is pretty rare, but unschooling parents who watch their children learning for years have a lot of time
to see some particular things that no one else—not even the other unschoolers—can see. In each family where these principles take hold, children do and say wonderful things that help the parents *know* (not just kind of think) that learning can happen without teaching or showing. They see that connections are being made that school would not, could not, have set up, when the parents back away from directing and instead provide experiences, materials and input.
SandraDodd.com/knowledge
photo by Sandra Dodd
(click to enlarge)
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photo by Sandra Dodd
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
History
Museums and historical markers can be fun, but most of the history around us is unmarked and undocumented.
Every little bit of trivia gives you a hook to hang more history on.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Something looks like this:
building,
flags,
perspective
Monday, June 8, 2015
Emotional well-being
Emotional health and emotional well-being are as important, if not more so, as physical health.
—Jenny Cyphers
photo by Janine Davies
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Before, behind; inside, outside
Ideas are based on other ideas, quite often. Songs might remind you of other songs. Art sometimes references other art.
In this photo there is an inside and an outside, things in front, things behind, Queen's Diamond Jubilee flags (so a time stamp) and a little tree.
Whether life is quietly calm or frantically busy, try to be gracefully and gratefully present.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Something looks like this:
architecture,
flags,
reflection
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Lack of control
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Friday, April 18, 2014
A different place
"Your perspective will change when you've experienced new things, seen the world from a different place." —Debbie Regan |
SandraDodd.com/readalittle
photo by Sandra Dodd
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Be whole; be childlike
Don't reject the playful, hopeful parts of you thinking that it's the mature thing to do. A person can't be whole if part of her was buried long ago.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Monday, August 19, 2013
Enough trivia
Enough trivia will create a detailed model of the universe. |
SandraDodd.com/trivia
photo by Sandra Dodd
Monday, July 8, 2013
England
I missed a day. Sunday was Joyce Fetteroll's birthday. She and Rippy Dusseldorp and I were in Delft to shop, and then went to Rotterdam to visit friends, and then back to Rippy's where I was very sleepy. Sitting in the Amsterdam airport following a flight cancellation, I realized I missed one, and won't be in a good place to look for quotes tonight, and so this will be my little offering to cover Monday and Tuesday, July 8-9, 2013.
I love England. Not sure why. Some people love some things without knowing why. This summer I will enter the UK three times (if we make it there okay tonight)—from the U.S., then from Portugal and now from The Netherlands. Into England five times, if I include crossing back in from Wales and from Scotland.
And so I am content. I have been to England enough.
I am grateful that my children are grown and there are people other than just their parents who love them and who are glad to see them and to know them.
Learn Nothing Day will arrive before long, and it will be a long day for me, 31 hours, because I'll be going home from England, on my birthday, to be met by my husband who loves me.
I like this blog and I'm sorry I missed a day.
I like my life, and I'm glad to have people to share various aspects of it with me.
SandraDodd.com/bio
photo by Sandra Dodd, of bunting—hand embroidered crowns, and appliqued Union Jacks, on triangular dags, put out for the Diamond Jubilee, but originally made for Queen Elizabeth's coronation
I love England. Not sure why. Some people love some things without knowing why. This summer I will enter the UK three times (if we make it there okay tonight)—from the U.S., then from Portugal and now from The Netherlands. Into England five times, if I include crossing back in from Wales and from Scotland.
And so I am content. I have been to England enough.
I am grateful that my children are grown and there are people other than just their parents who love them and who are glad to see them and to know them.
Learn Nothing Day will arrive before long, and it will be a long day for me, 31 hours, because I'll be going home from England, on my birthday, to be met by my husband who loves me.
I like this blog and I'm sorry I missed a day.
I like my life, and I'm glad to have people to share various aspects of it with me.
photo by Sandra Dodd, of bunting—hand embroidered crowns, and appliqued Union Jacks, on triangular dags, put out for the Diamond Jubilee, but originally made for Queen Elizabeth's coronation
Friday, October 22, 2010
Look more closely
Sometimes the world is a busy, confusing place. With sounds, sights, smells and distracting thoughts, sometimes it's hard to choose one thing to focus on.
In the midst of years' of wiring and amendments (skylight diffused by poles and fencing) and current decorations (paper balloon, beer flags), hidden by fluff and color, is a bit of traditional architectural strength, in the way two vigas (the large crossbeams) are joined over a post and corbel (that wooden platform on top of the vertical post).
Some details of the world around you are more important than others to the strength of the structure of your life—relationships, needs of children and partners, safety, warmth.
In small ways and large, look for important details while enjoying the colorful swirl of the world around you.
In the midst of years' of wiring and amendments (skylight diffused by poles and fencing) and current decorations (paper balloon, beer flags), hidden by fluff and color, is a bit of traditional architectural strength, in the way two vigas (the large crossbeams) are joined over a post and corbel (that wooden platform on top of the vertical post).
Some details of the world around you are more important than others to the strength of the structure of your life—relationships, needs of children and partners, safety, warmth.
In small ways and large, look for important details while enjoying the colorful swirl of the world around you.
Something looks like this:
architecture,
flags,
stuff
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