January 23, 2006 @ 4:29 am | Filed under: Clippings
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- homeschooling
and much more!
Rose, 12 yrs
Beanie, 9 yrs
Wonderboy, 6 yrs
Rilla, 4 yrs
Huck, 19 months
and Scott, the love of my life
Yes: it is so, so much fun, and that is why I write these posts all chattery with excitement over this or that connection the kids made today. (Or that I made myself!) I know I get carried away, but that’s the point, isn’t it, that way leading on to way has carried me away?
And yet—and yet—I think we are at once ‘carried away’ and made more fully present in the now, more rooted, by these relationships between ideas about things past and future. The joy of connection makes me want to celebrate this moment, this brief encounter with wild-haired child and broad-trunked tree, bus going by, sign on church wall, Scottish warlord creeping over the tower wall and startling the English soldier’s wife who has just put her babe in arms to sleep by crooning that the Black Douglas won’t get him. Child, laughing, shouting “Dinna ye be sae sure aboot that!” across the courtyard outside the library. How can I not celebrate this freedom?
(from a post called Way Leads on to Way)
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(Excerpt from this post about Real Life, quoted here because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that things are always perfect around here! Heaven knows we are anything but. Perfect, frictionless, orderly? Nope. Happy? Most of the time!)
Who, pausing in flight
On limb too slight,
Feels it give way beneath her,
Yet sings,
Knowing she has wings.
—Victor Hugo
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Not for me–and it is STUNNING! Talk about a “Bonny Glen” to beat all!
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 amYes. But then I have the dinosaur dial up.
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 5:19 amShoot, Maureen, I was afraid of that. Hmm.
Just curious, do you ever read blogs via their RSS feed? Seems like that might be a quicker page load because the feed doesn’t have all the formatting bells and whistles.
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 6:00 amDidn’t take too long for me, but I’m on high speed.
And, it’s gorgeous! I love it!
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 7:04 amWorked great for me.
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 9:38 amBeautiful!
Comes up instantly for me on entry level high speed. I love it!
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 9:46 amA little long to load for me, but it’s beautiful!
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 10:42 amElizabeth Foss says:
Nope. Came right up. And it made me want to road trip to Charlottesville:-)
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 12:40 pmCame right up for me too. I love it. Well done.
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 1:32 pmI have dial-up and it took awhile, but it was worth the wait. I wouldn’t change a thing!
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 3:15 pmIn a word, spectacular, even on dial-up…boohoo…what a bonny glen!
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 at 4:33 pmCame up right away and it’s a beaut!
Posted on January 24th, 2006 at 1:12 pmThanks, everyone. And to give credit where it is most certainly due—I didn’t take that picture—my father did.
It’s one of my all-time favorites, a view from the top of a nearby mountain.
Posted on January 26th, 2006 at 3:47 amIt’s beautiful! I didn’t notice any difference, but I have high speed cable modem.
Posted on January 26th, 2006 at 10:49 amHow do you read blogs via their RSS feed? What exactly is RSS feed? (Can you believe that my college minor was computer science? But then that was a few years ago
)
Posted on February 1st, 2006 at 8:06 am