First I'd have to *find* the sun 🌧️#typicalPNW 😂

First fire of the season and it feels good. Found some new folks to follow and that is great as well. Love finding my tribe here!

Spent the weekend with a friend in a house with a massive record collection and library. I. Am. Inspired.

Also, this morning: you don't have to accept the invite to an argument. It feels good to just say no to that.

Good morning, friends.

#grownostr

#livefree

Thanks for the list! Nice to find new follows.

"Slow schooling allows for children to engage in the everyday living of life, rather than setting apart a particular time or season to hit the books. Certainly there is a time to teach and a time to train, but teaching a child how to read is not the same thing as training a child to love reading. Obviously, modeling is a preferred means of training, and that is what discipling does: cultivates a desire and subsequently an ease in following the Master’s (or mother’s) footsteps."

Slow Schooling: A Return to Learning as an Enjoyable Lifestyle https://a.co/d/jaGTcXm

#grownostr

#homeschooling

Ha I was just about to say "except pizza" 😂

So I'm away for the weekend (ahhhh the quiet supper, the rain, the view, the salt air) and my fam sends me photos like this. Something about when the cat is away...

#mombreak

Not hardly boring! More like inspiring the life I desire to live. Glad I "met" you here.

"When children are given whole lives instead of age-graded ones in cell blocks they learn to read, write, and do arithmetic with ease, *if* those things make sense in the kind of life that unfolds around them."

John Taylor Gatto

Rearranging is hard work! Nicely done

"...once my children found my stash of Calvin and Hobbes books, they were hooked. Suddenly anything else worth reading was buried under blankets, clothing and toys, and I was sure to regularly find grubby little hands clutching collections of stories of this little boy with his stuffed toy tiger. Soon I was fielding questions such as,“Mom, what’s a spitball?” and trying to join in on the laughter about Calvin creating speed bumps all over the grassy lawn (all the while I’m giving the “don’t you dare” look).

My five year old graduated directly from easy phonic books and plunged into spending copious amounts of time giggling through the exploits of these characters.... It just goes to show you that while boxes of expensive phonic and reading programs may make you feel better about giving your child a “good education”, it won’t give them the same motivation to read as the opportunity to learn about storing snowballs in coat pockets, locking babysitters out of the house, and creating volcanoes out of mashed potatoes."

Slow Schooling: A Return to Learning as an Enjoyable Lifestyle https://a.co/d/jaGTcXm

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"One idea to help your child to own their own education is to be an enthusiastic supporter of whatever they think they may want to do. If they want to be chicken farmers, then get them a dozen books from the library all about chicken breeds and, if you are able, let them raise a bunch of poultry. Work with them to start a small egg business and never ever tell them that chicken farming is unrealistic, stupid, or just too much hard work. If your child grew up to happily raise up poultry and provide amazingly healthy eggs to his community at large while staying out of debt and enjoyed his lifestyle, why would that be so bad?"

Slow Schooling: A Return to Learning as an Enjoyable Lifestyle https://a.co/d/jaGTcXm

That sounds amazing!!

Well, I got a little swatch finished and am ready for this winter's sweater knit. I'm hoping to do something with a few stripes, but I'm not following a pattern other than Elizabeth Zimmermann's amusing and detailed instructions from the 1970's. In my bag is a mix of hand spun wool, yak and linen blends.

Here's a quote from her:

"Good knitting means, like good cooking, good grammar, good gardening and good living in general, just what it says: Read up on the subject, listen to all opinions, do not necessarily follow them, do your own thinking, cut your coat according to your cloth, be prepared to rip (a very purifying experience) and then go ahead and knit with love."

E.Z.

#grownostr

#knitstr

#workwithyourhands

Thank you ❤️

Good morning to you!

Good morning. Today I've got a lot of garlic to get into the ground, rain or not. The fog this morning made baking pretty much mandatory: sourdough pumpkin chocolate muffins with extra spice. Mushroom-cocao-coffee with a touch of elderberry syrup and I am one happy and ready mama. Bring on the day.

#coffeechain

"In our home, toddlers are most successful if they know they are not only loved, but that they are wanted and needed. They help with the cooking, the cleaning, and wiping the baby’s hands. They go to the market with me, fold the washcloths, and learn how to make their own beds. In every day, they are incorporated into the workings of running a home and growing a garden. The easiest way to grow a teenager who is annoyed with chores is to wait until the child is a teenager to expect them. Certainly there are times when toddlers seem underfoot, but that time is short and the lessons learned long. Toddlers will know they belong if they have important work to do, for the good of the family."

Slow Schooling: A Return to Learning as an Enjoyable Lifestyle https://a.co/d/jaGTcXm

"The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

On multiple levels