the sky is brilliant tonight, the clouds on fire - hot pink and orange with dark, smokey grey tufting away off into the distance (this picture doesn't do justice to the deepening beauty)
9.14.15 and i do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead children out of the fields into the text of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass {from section 4 of the poem Rain} i cannot believe that i had never read mary oliver until just this month
9.15.15 hot, dry wind from the south it's supposed to rain for the next three days, she said. i didn't argue. what's the point. either it will rain or it won't. i don't think it will rain.
so much making going on in my kitchen this weekend. kombucha and cookies (gingersnaps and chocolate chips) and granola and pizza and strawberry shortcake crumble, besides the regular meal stuff. also - that green bowl was my grandma's. i loved getting it out this weekend.
a few more gratitudes that didn't make it to my instgram lists this week: roman numerals, a long phone conversation with my mom, and one with my sister, a random text message - just checking in - out of the blue, and books the kids want to read
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i am back on my computer. i like the feel of a keyboard under my fingertips - not just a touch-screen. i think more clearly this way, for some reason. so, i am putting up with the relative slowness, in return for more thoughtfulness. (ah! there's a thought!)
i have missed my blog-space. maybe i will spend more time here in the coming week. we'll see how the time gets filled, i guess. so many choices to make - and right now, walks and bike rides and time spent with my family and time spent reading are winning out over writing blog posts. it is easy to hop onto instagram and post a picture and a few tiny thoughts - and there is good from that, too . . . but the concerted effort of more than that, well, i want to get back to more of this, too.
the first month of school was quite a whirlwind. i finally, as of friday, have my online gradebook started. i finally, as of today, have a weekly schedule put together - so i should be done with some of the day-to-day floundering i was doing. science and math and handwriting and spelling and grammar and art and music and phy ed and reading and journaling all have their slots now. i just have to fill in the lessons for each week. this feels like a step, or even two, in the right direction.
ben's schedule, as of today, is back on a regular monday-friday with weekends off - so we will all four have the same days off from here on through the winter (unless ben is out on some type of assignment, which could happen, but certainly not every weekend), so that is pretty stellar.
i am happy to have clicked away here for a bit. more clicking coming soon, friends. this feels good.
love to you, wonderful readers!
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p.s. in case you were wondering, it only rained one night out of the three that it was "supposed" to. just enough to make a little mud, then dry right back up.