Teeny Tiny Mantras
Today is Patti Smith.
Patti Smith - Horses (full studio version) (by Twentysixbillion)
Kind of stuck on this song.
Elvis Costello, “When It Sings” (by Iain Halliday)
may my heart always be open to little birds
who are the secrets of living… (by ee cummings)(photo by catene)
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I make playlists as a form of meditation
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Even kisses
Posted on August 23, 2011 | 1 CommentWe listened to a sleep meditation recording as he fell asleep last night, hanging on to me like driftwood. As the faintest snores began to come out of him, I... -
He can do it himself
Posted on April 13, 2011 | No CommentsOnce, when he was two or three, he asked me in earnest, “can I drive?” Now he watches my right knee as we travel through town. “Why does it move... -
Kindergarten
Posted on August 24, 2010 | 3 CommentsOn Children Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they... -
Plant an alveolus for Earth Day
Posted on April 16, 2010 | 6 CommentsWe visited with some fine local women and children yesterday after recovering from the news that we didn’t hit the lottery for any of the urban magnet kindergartens that we... -
I hate art scavenger hunts
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 6 CommentsWe had an hour or two to visit an art museum in another city the other day. No sooner had we hung up our coats than one of the volunteers... -
Interview at Mama Joules’ place
Posted on January 5, 2010 | 1 CommentIf you are looking for ideas about how to engage children with science, Mama Joules has got resources and fresh ideas about everything from physics to geology to gardening. I... -
Golden
Posted on April 14, 2009 | 4 CommentsI’ve been blogging less and working a lot more lately, which is turning into quite a juggling act. Happily, somebody noticed. A few weeks back, I found out that my... -
School Funding Awareness Week
Posted on November 12, 2008 | 1 CommentBack when Ohio’s system of funding education was ruled unconstitutional in the mid-1990s, I wrote about it for a local alternative weekly. There were astonishing stories about what poverty meant... -
Pen power
Posted on March 16, 2008 | No CommentsI spent a good part of yesterday as a judge for Power of the Pen, a scholastic writing competition for middle school kids, which was an honor and an absolute... -
More on urban school reform
Posted on October 3, 2007 | No CommentsI’ve spent the last couple of days with my passionate and inspiring colleagues from the KnowledgeWorks storytelling project. At long last, our publications about early college and small school reform...
