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grandmothers and other writers :: poetry friday

24 January 2014 by Kortney

on this late January Poetry Friday, a picture of my own grandmother, Nadine Ellen West. and a poem from the epigraph of The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasure of the Writer’s Craft.  returning to this treasure house of a book looking for inspiration + direction as i revise.

Kinds of Writers by Kim Stafford

Emily distilling spent days

into an attar of verse.  Or Basho: bamboo.

Or St. Francis, living the life that commands others

to tell his stories.  Or a Bard with a mind like mossy

shelves heavy with tales.  Or Anansi, spinning creation.

Rumi and Rama spinning spirit.  Or Walt Whitman’s

mother, to bear such a child.  Scheherazade, telling

stories for life, night by night.  Or Homer, whose life-

work of two poems is enough.  Or on the mountain,

singer of the Song of Songs.  Yes, I prefer anonymous–

her naked, indelible call.  Your own grandmother softly

putting you to sleep with a hum.  Or best of all,

someone we have not yet read, someone wide-eyed,

big-hearted, listening among us now, whose fist

can barely hold a pen.

more Poetry Friday goodness can be found this week at A Teaching Life.

…and Viking paper dolls from another Nadene.

and having poems and Vikings, let us be therewith content.

poetry friday on a saturday

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learning all the time :: 14 january

14 January 2014 by Kortney

Unschooling Chat Notes

i’ve mentioned before what a revelation Sandra Dodd’s Just Add Light and Stir blog is.  it’s a quote and a picture.  every day.  something to think about and some tiny bit of beauty.  she also links back to larger conversations and reflections at her site.

last week i learned that she also hosts a chat every week.  i haven’t listened in, but i thought it might be of interest….every Wednesday at noon mountain daylight time.  you can read more details here.…and the drawing above is from Sandra’s site.

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learning all the time :: 10 january 2014

10 January 2014 by Kortney

last night i got a hankering for those “American boys who sing traditional Cambodian songs”…you know, Muk!  that really was what i searched for on google.  the last time my sister-in-law Phan was in town she introduced us to these guys on youtube.  all night long i was singing “ChampaBattambang.”  take a listen!

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music can change the atmosphere at your house so quickly.  i was telling Andy that i want to create a list of music and what it does.  here’s a beginning:

  • need calm?  try Edgar Meyer.
  • need reflection?  try Hildegard or the monks of Keur Moussa.
  • need something more upbeat, but still not too distracting (no words in English)?  try Kronos Quartet or Ad Vielle Que Pourra
  • then there’s always Bruce 
  • or Leonard 
  • or The Waterboys
  • or REM
  • or Renee & Jeremy

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learning all the time :: 3 january 2014

3 January 2014 by Kortney

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if you’ve been reading here long at all, you know that i love Julie at Brave Writer.  even though our oldest child is only seven, we have used Julie’s Jot It Down methods with great success.  yesterday she posted a wonderful piece about delight-directed teachers.

what if we as homeschool mamas were happy?  what if we followed our own delight?  where would it lead us?  could we trust that we could teach the essentials while following our bliss?  Julie mentions the shift that happened for her when she started lighting a candle over the sink as she did the dinner dishes.  what small markers of beauty and intention might we add to our routines and rhythms this new year?  what kind of example would we set for our children if we listened to our inner voice?

every household would be different; no standardization here!  in our house delight-directed studies would include art history and drawing practice and the church year and stories and Shakespeare and birds.

speaking of birds….following Lyanda’s instructions in Rare Encounters with Everyday Birds, both Mental Multivitamin and Dawn at By Sun and Candlelight have posted about their birds of the year.  what kind of year might i have if i gave it wings?

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