Archive for January 22nd, 2006

Chesterton on Hope

January 22, 2006 @ 11:10 am | Filed under: Chesterton & Dickens

“It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth the wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged: God has kept that good wine until now.”

—G. K. Chesterton,
Charles Dickens: The Last of the Great Men

This Week’s Five Signs

January 22, 2006 @ 11:03 am | Filed under: ASL lessons, Sign Language

I’ve moved the weekly “Five Words in ASL” posts to Sunday, when the after-Mass lull gives me a little chunk of time for looking up the links. This week’s signs are question words:

And a bonus, as long as we’re asking questions:

See video demonstrations of these signs here or here.

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Ooh, I Remember that Game

January 22, 2006 @ 5:26 am | Filed under: Family Adventures, These People Crack Me Up

Rose and her pal across the street spent five hours yesterday out in his backyard.

Me: So what were you playing all that time?

Rose: Dirt.

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In 2006, a year after I began this blog, I coined the term Tidal Homeschooling to describe my family’s homeschooling style, an ebb and flow of
high tide (planned, Charlotte Mason-ish) and low tide (unschoolish, delight directed) learning. You’ll sometimes see me call it Tidal Learning. Seventeen years later (and counting), the metaphor still works. At the time of this writing (January 2023), I’m enjoying tidal homeschooling with Huck and Rilla, my two youngest, now in their teens.

If you’d like to read more about tidal homeschooling, there are a bunch of posts at this link.

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