Summer reading, zombies and evil truths.

I have realized that all the wondergarden early waldorf training is true and I am at times just a horrid mom. My own mother was part Indian gypse grifter and the other part Scotts-Irish con woman. I myself am a self -absorbed artist type with to much education and to much spare time on my [...]

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Hallucinating summer…adjust your tongue box…

The kids feel it.
I feel it. That madness that it is time to wear shorts and swimsuits and lay in the sun or run through the sprinkler. The plants are starting to blast out of their earthly gates and the weather is thinking about cooperating.
In the weekly classroom newsletter – one of the teachers made [...]

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Klaatu barada nikto

**Edit note** Just as we were getting ready to go we noticed the furnace did not seem to be working. Hubby checked the furnace , yep not on – hit the resent button on the old unit and gobs of BLACK foul smelling smoke filled our basement. Yuck! Now movie is off – heater answering [...]

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Its a winter wonderland…but there are monsters.

 
Scary short film – I love the new media. We can all be film makers of sorts.

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Panic of 1837

Those who refuse to remember History are doomed to reapeat it – as is the case before the 1930s there was the Panic of 1837 So hold on, these things are cyclical. This is not the second Depression , and it won’t be the last. But, there will be something good to come of it [...]

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Islamic Force Time Zone…

Its like they knew what is coming. I suppose it is pretty obvious to people who study World History and The Tides of War.
Incuding War on the Planet.
I miss the days of Main Stream Politically Meanigful music – I do not think songs [...]

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Long way around economics…

I get this. I know what they are saying but I just do not agree with it. The trickle down effect is not a realistic practice. Good in theory but in reality if your child is hungry and needs new shoes a few bridges and the nice thought that in five to ten years more [...]

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Messy morning.

Cannot find the camera but leave it to say this…
Two little kids – a Jug of Milk, Can of ovaltine (Brand new) and two tiny batman glasses.
“Mom taste our chocolate milk” I look up from my work and they are covered…covered in a thick chocolate mess. oh…. no…. their giant kitchen spoons just dripping.    Everywhere.
I [...]

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Big Plans… Four for Friday

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably
themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.
Daniel Burnham
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 . . . be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions
themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written [...]

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Infinity theory

 
I always heard it was twelve monkeys then a hundred monkeys but then it became an ifinite army of monkeys….
This parable of the Monkeys and their creativity goes back years – I have found French references to this theory dating back to:
Borel, 1913
… Concevons qu’on ait dressé un million de singes à frapper au hasard sur [...]

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