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Mom! / Biodynamic Urban Farmer / Naturopathic Doctor / Anthroposophist / Mystic / Avid Reader / Writer Extraordinaire / In Pursuit of Moral, Physical, and Intellectual Excellence.
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I feel close in Journal
Everything feels very close… My cat who almost never sits on me came around and sat on me today. My son has been extra super cuddly. I feel like I’m in the time in between. You know, the time whe...
dead man on the way to grandma’s house today. We were just coming over a bridge and saw a few cars being waved back, so stopped to turn down the nearest road (DH was driving). As we turned, I gl...
Are you Dangerous? in Journal
Soft eyes is how we describe the relaxed awareness of a good rider. Hard eyes is a focused, lazer-like attention at is particularly alarming to prey animals like horses- for obvious reasons I wou...
Looking Forward in Journal
to meeting an older woman who has a son the same age as ours and is also planning to homeschool with the rough curriculum I have in mind. Talking to her the past couple of weeks has been… Inspir...
Family the Original Socialist Government in Journal
DH said this yesterday and it’s pure gold. Yes I have heard it before - I am quite familiar with the idea that our authoritarian socialist communist power structure is fist imprinted through the ...
When it Rains in Journal
Well, you know. DHs gma and aunt specifically invited us to their big family dinner. They said that they miss us. Which is a little funny/ ironic bc these things have so many people at them ther...
Playing the Game in Journal
J(my mother) sent me an email yesterday morning. I’m a far cry from the reactionary emotional guilt/shame/do something response that I was so prone to for all of my life. I realize that I was tha...
Fuzzy meaning in Dreams
The dream I had last night was… Well I’m not sure what to call it. I was me, although my stomach was flat and very not pregnant as I am now. The gist of the first scene (or dream, I guess) is qu...
DH is the handyman of handymen. He replaced ALL the shoddy old plumbing in our house with 3/4” copper for under $200. Even with today’s hyperinflated costs. He’s getting ready to install a new ta...
Standards, Insanity, Budget, Baby in Journal
DH and I talked about standards and how to know when they’re irrational, or rational. It was a pretty good talk. I related how my dad destroyed my brother’s social life, claiming that no one was ...
Disappointed in Journal
“The medical profession has accomplished much. It will accomplish more in the future. It will become a more rounded profession. The members of our profession who have the clearest vision are alre...
Dollar Cost Averaging, The Evil of Public Schools in Journal
The mathematics of dollar cost averaging (DCC) continues to amaze me. So, the price is down- which means people are selling their assets. I wish it were so, but it is. Mostly because I really wan...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 7 in Essays
This lecture begins with an overview of methods for the 9-and-a-half or 10 year old through puberty, or around age 14. Steiner again emphasizes the importance of relationships in presenting these...
Boundaries, FOO, Superstition is Cowardice in Journal
Boundaries, I have without exception experienced, are useful only as an internal asshole radar system. It’s fine (I guess) to “have” boundaries- but no one who you would actually need to have the...
The Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 6 in Essays
This lecture is dedicated to a rough outline of methodology to accomplish the objectives defined in the previous lectures. Namely, this lecture is about the how in bringing experiences to childre...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 5 in Essays
“It is essential that you have some understanding of the real essence of every subject that you teach, so that you do not use things in your teaching that are remote from life itself. Everything ...
Library, Growth in Journal
Walked to the library today with W, and it was a fun trip. It is not air conditioned, which was disappointing, but we spent a good 2 hours there anyways. Signed up for a card and checked out a bu...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 4 in Essays
“People who cannot endure being clumsy and doing things stupidly and imperfectly at first never really will be able to do them perfectly in the end out of their own inner self.” Childhood is noth...
I don’t get this type of behavior. I really don’t. It’s just that, if you bully someone into doing what you want, you know in your bones always and forever that nothing between you is real. It’s...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 3 in Essays
General Principles of Waldorf Education Steiner spends quite a lot of this lecture describing in strictly Anthroposophical terms the process of child development. It is a difficult and unclarifyi...
The Kingdom of Childhood Intro in Essays
‘He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.’ ~Friedrich Nietzsche It is with this idea in mind that I aim to review Steiner’s lectures on education. It is to fulfill my own need for cl...
Time Flies in Journal
When you’re having fun. I can’t believe I’ve already entered the third trimester. This pregnancy is moving by so quickly, it seems. It’s odd that I barely notice that I’m pregnant, but I think ab...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 2 in Essays
Pg 18 Quote; ” But is is what you are that matters: if you are good this goodness will appear in your gestures; and if you are bad-tempered this also will appear in your gestures- in short, every...
The Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 1 in Essays
[Intro] Pg 4 Quote; “Those who are truly the worst theorists are the least practical in life. A bank today is entirely composed of thoughts arising from theories. There is nothing practical in i...
Of things I’d like to write and so little time to do it. I’ve been mulling over a philosophical analysis of Steiner’s educational lectures. I think I will do that. Anthroposophy is a mystical wo...
