“Change can change back. (We can go from conservative to liberal, from disciplined to undisciplined…) Change is volatile. Transformation is completely different – though sometimes it is called change. Transformation never makes the past wrong. It transforms it. It doesn’t deny it. It honors it in a way that you can move forward without making anything wrong,…
Cleaning up a pile of papers by my side of the desk, I ran into this jewel of a story, which I transcribed from the mouth of my then four year old daughter: “So, this Unicorn has born before everything else, even before Hansel and Gretel, a long long time ago. She didn’t even need…
If you’re running short on trouble… If you’re life has too little drama… If you’re lonely… Or just have too many rose bushes and honeysuckle vines… get yourself a goat. I feel silly gloating over our two little goats when our fellow radicals have milk cows and triple digits of lambs on the ground, but…
“You cannot step in the same river once.” ~ Chuang Tzu (maybe) The weather has changed again. After so many days of the children running outside barefoot, talking about Spring. After a roof and walls went up on the outbuilding so large I think we could almost move into it. After surveying the damage of…
As the season winds down, we start getting bookish around here. Even though the to-do list is still too long, I see school buses out on the roads and start thinking that we ought to do our own version of that. That. That school-thing. I know I wrote a piece, sometime last year, about homeschooling/unschooling….
Some things are so small, we will never lay eyes on them, and they can change our lives in an instant (bacteria, atoms, for instance). Other things are so large that they are invisible, and they change our lives every day whether we think of them or not (the galaxy, and love). Often, these two…