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Wordless Word

Wordless Word

Posted on April 10, 2020 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with direct experience, God, loneliness, Tao

I find I would rather apprehend the knowable unknowable than attempt to put Logos into words.

Some things are better lived than said.

“Some things are more important than words,” Marigold said to Guy. “Some things only shrink into little shells when you try to describe them.”

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Two Chickens, Many Options

Two Chickens, Many Options

Posted on September 13, 2019 Posted in Recipes Tagged with abundance, appetizer, real food, slow food, soup

Some people can plan a meal for every night of the week (EVERY WEEK), with bulk meals and freezer meals and all that. Me—no. I’m terrible at meal-planning. For a while, I felt that meal-planning …

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Light Straw Clay

Light Straw Clay

Posted on June 5, 2019 Posted in Building Tagged with abundance, beauty, connection to the land, natural building, shelter

Let’s talk about light straw clay. First off, I love it. Secondly, what is it? And why is it worthy of love? Both of those questions have an answer. Light straw clay is a bunch …

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Our Second Grade School Day

Our Second Grade School Day

Posted on May 31, 2019 Posted in Homeschool Tagged with boundaries, chickens, curricula, dogs, free range parenting, homeschooling, practice

The house wakes early, even in the dark. Partly because kids are insane, and partly because I have a puppy, which is another story. In any case, by 6:30am the dog is pooping, Boots is …

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Drinking Chocolate

Drinking Chocolate

Posted on May 28, 2019 Posted in Recipes Tagged with beverages, keto

In Spain, it’s not hot chocolate—it’s drinking chocolate. Encountering this sort of blew my mind, and so my quest began. The beverage I tasted in a Spanish streetside café was, as I understood it, a …

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Daily Bread: How to Bake with Sourdough

Daily Bread: How to Bake with Sourdough

Posted on April 27, 2019 Posted in Recipes Tagged with bread, fermentation, slow food

How do you bake a loaf of bread using the sourdough starter you made? Well let me tell you. I named this recipe my “daily bread,” as in “give us this day,” because it’s very …

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How to Eat Fried Caterpillars

How to Eat Fried Caterpillars

Posted on April 24, 2019 Posted in Eat, Homeschool, Parent Tagged with casual experiments, food processing, hunting/gathering, slaughter, unschooling, wildlife neighbors

After watching Bear Grylls do it, King Sturdy wanted to eat a caterpillar.

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My Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum: Our Routine

My Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum: Our Routine

Posted on September 16, 2016 Posted in Homeschool Tagged with curricula, homeschooling

In my last two posts, I told you about the ideas that have influenced my kindergarten homeschool curriculum, as well as the subjects we’re studying, the activities that go with those, and the way I’ve …

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My Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum: What We Study

My Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum: What We Study

Posted on September 15, 2016 Posted in Homeschool Tagged with curricula, homeschooling

In my last post, I shared the styles of homeschooling that have influenced the kindergarten curriculum I’ve created this year for King Sturdy. In this post, I’m going to tell you which subjects we’re focusing …

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Four homeschooling styles that shape our curriculum

Four homeschooling styles that shape our curriculum

Posted on September 14, 2016 Posted in Homeschool Tagged with classical schooling, common core, curricula, unschooling

There are a lot of different ways to homeschool: different curricula of course, also different philosophies. Here’s the mishmash of approaches that I like, with a broad-brush description of how I think about each. Unschooling …

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If my children were fairy tale characters, they'd be King Sturdy and Shortshanks. I'd be the Master Maid. As for the mister, he'd be Boots of course.

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