tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18706578415950125722024-02-20T12:17:06.743-05:00 Plot 55slim pickinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833617568090157365noreply@blogger.comBlogger1077125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870657841595012572.post-70769428199423651792018-10-02T23:16:00.000-04:002018-10-02T23:16:27.412-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week our internet was out. Let's just say it was a gardening accident, and leave it at that, shall we? We have also been without our filtered water for two weeks, due to a problem with the filling station at the grocery store. No water. No internet.</div>
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Eliza declared it "apocalyptic" - with great glee. Then it became tragic. No internet <i>or</i> water? First world problems. (I mean, yes, water is super important, but while we obsessively check to see if we might be under a boil order, we technically <i>have water.)</i></div>
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It quickly became clear though that there was a layer of communication we were missing, even just within our house. Eliza can't text without wifi, so there were no delightful BTS GIFs showing up on my phone. And I couldn't send her photos from the kitchen, or the store, or from wherever I was. We're just short of obsessed with practicing making poached eggs, and UGH, I couldn't send her a photo of my nearly perfect breakfast!!!</div>
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She got more exercise, walking uptown to the university library to check on email and texts and do her language study, but a teenager without a way to communicate easily with friends is rather tragic. Thankfully we have a brilliant friend who thought nothing of stopping by and fixing our troubles in 15 minutes flat. Still no water, but we're back up and running and texting and blogging...<br />
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Today was ablaze with a searing blue sky and perfect wisps of cloud. A fabulous - and hot, sticky, messy - curtain call of summer. It was the annual Pawpaw Festival here, in pawpaw country, and we just about didn't go. E and I dipped our toes in - our hot, sticky toes - for a few glimpses of friends and a plate of jerk chicken and plantains, but were happy to hop back in the car for home. </div>
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It made me think though of pawpaw festivals years ago, when she would happily dance with strangers during the called contra dances, or a little later, when she was independent enough to roam without me stuck to her side, but dependent enough that I tried to stay within view for the inevitable big drink of water or snack, avoiding a dramatic collapse. Some years we'd camp and the kids would wander in a tangled gaggle of happy awkwardness. It was a perfect place for young people to roam in safety, and for us parents to get a little break, confident that our community was also keeping a loose eye on our kids. Today I felt like we'd outgrown the fun of it, but I can also recognize that in a different year, with different weather (but oh please the same jerk chicken and plantains!!) and a different life rhythm, it might feel just right again. And friends of all ages are having young ones, and so there will be a new focus and delight in that gathering again...</div>
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<i> of some of our very authentic physics tools.</i></div>
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September feels like a new year to me. Thought I do not feel a spaciousness with lots of holes in my schedule that are begging me to <i>write on the blog!</i>, I think this page might be helpful to me, in gaining some perspective on what happens here in our days. The boxes are really off-kilter, and I'm good with that until I start trying to put things in the boxes, and then it all falls to pieces, and my sanity and positivity with it.</div>
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Voter registration - Dan and I worked with our local Indivisible chapter to register new voters (yes, I find this thrilling. I LOVE to vote!) and update student addresses at our wonderful farmer's market. Very satisfying!!</div>
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Starting the new season of Calliope - I am the new director of a 25-year old feminist choir in town. It is an honor and a total pleasure, and a lot of work, so it was really fun to get to the singing part on Monday! We started our season learning "<i>Refugee" </i>by Moira Smiley, whose workshop I attended this summer as a part of Sister Singers Network Festival.</div>
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Yoga - Dan and I have committed to making as many Sunday yoga classes as we can together. It's crowded and I have holes in my pants that I get to display with every downward-facing dog, but it's the best yoga class I've taken in years. Just when I think I'm going to have to lie down and pretend like I'm really into child's pose to deepen my practice, she shifts us into something new and I am able to carry on! Eliza is taking a weekly yoga class with a former dance teacher who she loves. She also went to try out a women's jiu jitsu class and was a part of setting a record for the studio of 20 women on the mat! She LOVED it and still is having a hard time walking up the stairs.</div>
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For Ani the week's highlights were a frustrating morning spent trying to trouble-shoot a remote snap circuit car; making handmade books with a friend during a sleepover; reading, reading, reading (she is trying a new series called "<i>Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians", </i>reading a biography of Isaac Newton, partially aloud to me if I'm anywhere in the vicinity, and has just started <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>, which is slow-going and challenging and she is totally up for it! Her comment was that it might be helpful to read with "maybe seven dictionaries" nearby, looking up words like "ascetic", "commonplace book" and "dour"). </div>
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The biggest highlight was probably when we were watching our little toddler buddy for a second day this week. Ani had already taken care of potty times and diaper changes herself, and then I asked if P wanted Ani to sing her to sleep? She did, of course, and so Ani lay down with her and sang her to sleep! It was heart-squeezingly adorable to listen to through the monitor. </div>
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Tuesday there was a sleepover at our house. I invited the girls ahead of time to come to the Interfaith Peace Walk that evening; the Justice Choir had been asked to lead a couple of songs in front of the Islamic Center on campus, after a walk through town. Dan's rehearsal was cancelled, so suddenly we were all there, walking, visiting with neighbors, holding candles, and singing "<i>we're gonna keep on moving forward..." </i>I was grateful to be all together, to be a part of our community who makes this effort every year to pull us all together in the spirit of peace and justice.</div>
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Last week we took a trip to the Kennedy Art Museum on campus, to see an exhibit of Haitian art.<br />
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My agenda was to not have an agenda;) We just wandered and observed and thought and talked and wandered. Ani took the photos above, with my phone, and I loved seeing what drew her attention. This week I wanted to see an exhibit on campus, called <i><a href="https://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/17-18/06/what-were-you-wearing-survivor-art-installation-call-for-submissions.cfm">What Were You Wearing?</a> , </i>which addressed sexual assault, rape culture, and victim-blaming. <i> </i>I knew Eliza would be interested, but while the subject is something Ani will talk about, she was not interested in going through the gallery show. She walked there with us, though, and enjoyed riding the escalators and hanging out, reading, while in the bustle of the student center. The exhibit was powerful and alarming, simple in its execution (outfits hanging on the wall, fitting the descriptions written out on plaques, of clothing and the ensuing assault) and brutal in its simplicity.</div>
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We have our daily goals of reading for an hour (for Ani, that means reading something out of her "normal" repertoire; the request is some non-fiction a few times a week), language study, math games/puzzles, music study - and we are trying to anchor our week with a couple of activities together. Right now we are looking at Newton's laws of motion, through experiments, reading, and video. Eliza is reading Angie Thomas's <i>"The Hate U Give"</i> and listened to a podcast on race with <a href="https://player.fm/series/fine-and-dandy-with-dan-and-andy/fine-and-dandy-episode-8">Ijeoma Oluo</a>, who wrote "<i>So You Want To Talk About Race". </i>We also have various conversations on racism, segregation, taking a knee, rape culture, conversion therapy...sometimes initiated by me, and sometimes by a thought train one of them is riding. Ani was sitting and being thoughtful the other day, thinking about "<i>Hidden Figures</i>", which is one of her favorite books and movies right now. It prompted her to talk about segregation, imagining a library that was not open to absolutely everyone, and wondering where things stand now (a conversation topic that comes round on a regular basis). I try to stop what I am doing and sink into where she is when this happens, because she is a deep thinker and I want to go there with her when she is ready!</div>
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What else...Eliza has a weekly game night she goes to with young adults who all homeschooled in some fashion, and she had a movie date with her best friend in Maine on Friday, watching and chatting simultaneously. It reminded me of watching <i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</i> on the TV while sitting on the phone with my friend, Tammy Bridges, who lived kitty-corner from me in fifth grade.</div>
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I hardly know where to begin, but I've been feeling a pull. This blog was an adult space for me for many years, <i>the</i> adult space, and now that I have other real-time adult spaces (maybe too many of them?), this has faded into the background. Back yard. Other side of town. But there have been moments in the past month or two where I've thought, <i>huh, I should write about that</i>. So I thought I'd give it a whirl.</div>
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How about I entertain you with the ephemeral aliens of southeastern Ohio's woods, while I ramble on a bit about homeschooling teenagers? An annual homage to spring, in one of the weirdest springs on record. To point, it was 80 degrees yesterday, maybe a bit more than that the day before, and they're suggesting it might snow tomorrow. Blargh. (update: it snowed, sleeted, and snowed some more)</div>
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A little like homeschooling teenagers, where you think you know the season, but it keeps throwing you curveballs. Some curveballs are good - like the timing of a trip to Spain that fits your child perfectly. E's learning world has been crafted almost entirely around planning and preparing for a six week trip with <a href="https://www.unschooladventures.com/">Unschool Adventures</a>. We've had this organization on our radar for years, and the possibility of going always seemed years away until "<i>Mom! MOM!! They have room in their trip to SPAIN!!!</i>" </div>
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This was on the heels of retrieving her from Maine, where she had been for a month, living with her best friend and picking blueberries, and eating huge amounts of gelato. We pretty much immediately went into the soft no, like, yeah wouldn't that be cool, but ha ha...no.</div>
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That night I lay in bed thinking about everything I've read about these trips over the years, building confidence in young people, encouraging "self-directed exploration". If there was a kid who was ready for this stage of freedom, it is E. She wants what most of us want - to engage with her life in a meaningful way. So much of what we do as teens can feel like treading water, waiting, waiting, waiting...This is not what I want for her. I remember feeling like I was just waiting for my <i>real </i>life to start. Why do our kids need to wait?</div>
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So we started talking about how we could possibly make it happen. What we finally came up with was asking her to split the cost of the tuition with us, which she has and then some, through a job at a health food store, working as a transcriber for a friend of ours, doing odd jobs here at home, selling sets of original cards and crowdfunding. She dove into learning Spanish, online and working weekly with a university student. She's been hiking every week, breaking in her new boots, for the two weeks of hiking along the Camino del Norte. This girl is motivated and inspired and <i>ready.</i> </div>
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I tend to get hung up on the details. It can be difficult to maintain perspective when you spend so much time with your kids. I would like to feel better equipped to help A open doors where she is, to feel some flow with her that sparks some new fires (so many metaphors...). I'm having a harder time with the trusting and following for some reason, but when E asks what she was like at this age, I honestly have a hard time remembering because she was always older. Fifteen at thirteen. Understanding things about the world, somehow. So in some ways, this is our first cusp of thirteen. </div>
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<br />We've been into a rhythm for about a month now - a skeleton of a schedule which we are filling with American prehistory and Van Gogh and astronomy and french and fractions - but I've been away for a couple of weekends, we've had a beloved visitor, and every activity we are involved with is up and running full steam. Dance classes, film class, choir, and activism, it is all fulfilling and overwhelming, at the same time. </div>
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Monday morning dawned and I thought: shoot, we've got to Slow Down. Our learning time works best with some spaciousness, a relaxed pace and some time to compost. We have really been missing that. So I met the girls on the couch after morning chores and we picked out a book to read aloud. </div>
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<i>Yes, at twelve and fifteen my girls can read to themselves, and do so insatiably, but they still love to be read to.</i> A year and a half ago we read my childhood copy of Ellen Raskin's <i>The Westing Game, </i>and it was a blast! So funny and smart. They wanted to read it again, but I told them there was another Ellen Raskin, so now we are several chapters into <i>The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues</i>.</div>
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Last year our morning was anchored by time we spent at the kitchen table after the dishes were cleared away. We would watch CNN Student News to follow current events, which often lead us down one path or another. We would follow that with the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture">What's Going On In This Picture? </a>, a great jumping-off point for conversation, together and online. Sometimes it was to Khan Academy to watch an art history video, or it was to look at a map or more photos. This year Ani requested that we not start every day with current events. It has felt really overwhelming and depressing (don't you think???) and to be honest, she cringes every time she hears 45's name. She has always been clear on what she can handle, so for now we are staying away from the news and having simpler conversations when there is something to know.</div>
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I am not always as successful limiting my own media intake these days, and it can quickly throw me off balance. I'm going to follow Ani's lead on this one, and have one-on-one conversations with Eliza, who <i>wants</i> to be in the know. It also feels good to start our days with a book in hand, not with a screen.</div>
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So we're gathering on the couch, with magnetic mosaics and drawing pads, pompom makers and paints, to listen to a story. It is exactly the right thing for Now. It takes precious time out of our mornings, but it is the heart of our days and puts us in a place where we can move into the work we find more challenging. <i>Tattooed Potato</i> is an odd enough book that we are making connections all over the place: impressionism, the old song <i>Oranges and Lemons, </i>Humphrey Bogart...we're learning all kinds of interesting things.</div>
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(I'm not sure if this is Ani's favorite way of doing math, but she's very patient with her curiosity!)</div>
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This is a test to see if I can truly dump all the bazillion photos from my phone because they are safe in a <i>cloud. </i>Yes, I know it's The Cloud, but it resides in this part of reality steeped in science fiction, and I only just in the past year allowed my brilliant and tech-savvy brother in law to even talk about The Cloud in my presence. Really. It freaked me out in a deep way. But I've crossed over and it might be because I have exactly 9,562 photos and 206 videos on my amazing little phone.<br />
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So since we are traveling to Maine this weekend to <i>retrieve this beautiful girl</i> and - oh yes! attend the annual Silver Baby Cup golf tournament - I thought I might need some room for more photos. It seems that it's all true what they said. It's in the cloud. Whatever that is.<br />
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<br />slim pickinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833617568090157365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870657841595012572.post-86902229637421381142017-05-19T08:59:00.000-04:002017-05-19T08:59:20.947-04:00September learning notes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
It's almost assessment time here in Ohio: the public school across the street has their last day tomorrow, and we're being catapulted into summer with 88 degree temperatures. I don't stop keeping track of what we're doing over the summer, but I don't shape our time quite like I do the rest of the year, mostly because we stay so darn busy! I always think life will slow down with the ending of dance classes and choir, but something else always comes to take its place. This year it's <i>Midsummer Night's Dream</i>, in which Eliza is Cobweb, the fairy - and which Dan is directing in his second year as Tantrum Theater's Artistic Director. </div>
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This was also a paltry blogging year for me. I'm still figuring out why. Some of it is that we are spending more time independent from one another, and more of that time looks like reading and writing on the computer - none of which quite captures the camera like a nature walk or making mudpies (those were the days...)! But we're still here, and this is a nice way to keep track of life whirling by, so I'm launching a major catch up in the next couple of weeks, mostly for me, but maybe there is someone out there still checking in once in a while (yes - Hi, Mom!). There will be many many photos, and then some narrative and lists, not exhaustive, just keeping track of some of the ways we spent our time, including links to resources. I'll use these posts as part of our annual assessment - so they may not hold your interest all the way through! Just look at the photos and carry on!</div>
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(The fever turned into a week of feeling poorly; lots of listening to stories and putting together puzzles, while Dan and Eliza traveled to Tennessee for the annual Silver Baby Golf Tournament.)<br />
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(Early work on a Halloween costume. Super cool horns)</div>
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In September we took on the care of a friend's almost four-month old, and it quickly became clear that Ani would be a primary caregiver during our time. Eight months later, that still bears out, and she has competently bottle-fed, changed diapers, swaddled, and worn that baby! Now of course it's more about putting the baby down so she can run, so the skill set is changing, but Ani remains attentive, doting, and fascinated by infant and child development.</div>
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September was the start or resumption of many things: the picking up of a friendship that had been long-distance for a year; fiddle, dance classes, Silver Baby Golf Tournament. We eased into math with a book called <i>Math and Magic in Wonderland, </i>reading it aloud. Ani declared "I want to do science that is <i>interesting, interactive and delicious"</i>. Well, we managed the first couple of criteria when I found Mystery Science, which creates inquiry-based units for educators. Unfortunately, most of them are for younger children, but we did a couple of the units geared towards the oldest, starting with <a href="https://mysteryscience.com/rocks/rock-cycle-erosion-natural-hazards">The Birth of Rocks</a>, focusing on volcanoes, and supplemented with Crash Course and other videos about Earth Science. We also started most days with CNN student news - which often lead to long conversations and research - and participated weekly in the New York Times "What's Going On In This Picture?" conversation.</div>
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A highlight from the month for Ani was the decision to study other countries through their food, starting with Italy. She also ended with Italy. Turns out she just wanted to make a lot of pasta and pizza, biscotti and caprese salad! No one complained...She also read Italian folk stories, and daily mapped out a trip my dad was taking around the Mediterranean, looking up information on some of the locations. We looked at a virtual tour of Rome, she read <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6631711-roman-diary">Roman Diary: The Journal of Iliona,</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68240.Starry_Messenger?from_search=true">Starry Messenger</a>, </i>about Galileo, <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418887.Leonardo_s_Horse?ac=1&from_search=true">Leonardo's Horse</a></i>, about Leonardo Da Vinci, and worked on learning the countries of Europe.</div>
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Read about Amelia Earhart (<i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6797602-amelia-earhart?ac=1&from_search=true">This Broad Ocean</a> </i>and <i>Adventure in the Sky)</i></div>
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Eliza started her fall in Italy too; she learned about <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Doctor-Who-Traveling-Through-History-with-Doctor-Who-Semester-One-1423611">history through Dr. Who</a> during the fall, starting with the episode on Pompeii. She and Dan took advantage of the fabulous <a href="http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/">National Theater Live</a> showings at our local cinema: <i>One Man Two Guvnors, View from the Bridge, The Audience, </i>and <i>Three Penny Opera. </i>She also attended a University production of <i>The Library</i>. We attended a showing of <i><a href="http://anotherkindofgirl.com/">Another Kind of Girl Collective</a></i>, short films by and about young Syrian refugees, with a talk-back by the filmmaker and teacher who lead the project. </div>
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Read short stories: <i>Fresh, All Summer in a Day, Magic for Beginners</i></div>
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we call her "little bit" and "bubbaloo" and "boo" and "love"...</div>
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...and while we do a pretty good job of pretending that she is "ours", she is the daughter of good friends of ours, and our precious charge a couple of times a week. (Good gravy, precious? I'm sounding like my grandmother. Huh...) Her mama K. gave me a heads-up a couple of years ago, saying, you know, I thought I should let you know that I'm expecting you to be around and involved as I'm raising my future kid. Fast forward those couple of years, and I had the incredible honor of being present at this baby's birth, and when K. and N. asked us to consider being a part of her care team, we said yes. It was not a whole-hearted, no-qualms yes, though. We have busy lives and I've gotten really good at not giving our time away quickly. There is a teenager in the house who has protected her independence and time by being a little disdainful of babies (imagine the scrunched nose and "ew" face), and I wanted to be respectful of that. So we talked about it as a family, and with K. and decided that we would say yes, on a trial basis.</div>
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You can see where this is going, right? The teenager fell in love with the first giggle, and Ani? Ani is, in her own words, "utterly devoted". She actually is <i>my</i> mother's helper when we have her all day. She changes diapers, gives a bottle, carries, clothes, entertains, observes, engages, consoles, reads, and is a human jungle gym. She talks with some surprise about how she feels like some day she could be a mama. </div>
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<br />Our baby day is a 'work' day for Ani, who takes some things to do in addition to caring for the baby. She thinks she'd like to homeschool her when she gets older; she's offered to take care of the Harry Potter part of that, while Eliza covers creative writing, and they'll both teach her history, so she likes showing her how she writes and reads. </div>
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And this week there was a first: Ani carried her the whole way on an hour-long hike, building strength and confidence with every step. Heart swell.</div>
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I thought I would really confuse things and bounce around in time again. A little here, a little there, and maybe I'll get caught up! I figured it has been a while - maybe years? - since my last "gallery" post, which would maybe imply that there is no art going on around here, which would be just silly. And wrong. Along with a long dive into the fantastic coloring books that are available these days, there has been making of every kind...writing, drawing, sewing, crocheting, sculpting, collage. I've decided that the way we're going to make it through February is to set Fridays aside for a full day of meandery making. Doesn't that sound like the best plan?? I think it will be soul-saving for me, and that can't be bad for any of us...</div>
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The mesmerizing spirals are a tool we've all been using for some meditative time, while listening to music or a story.</div>
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The girls made signs for their rooms out of el wire. Eliza's says "wander" and Ani's "imagine".</div>
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My own making has been more of the postcard variety. My commitment to be more involved in knowing what is happening in our government goes hand in hand with learning to have a voice, and I'm playing a little trick on myself to keep interested: I'm making awesome postcards that - I KNOW, I know, will get lost at the bottom of a pile, but...they make me happy to make and to write and to clip to the mailbox to wait for pickup, so this intersection of art and activism is likely to become a familiar one around here.</div>
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My most recent piece of making is thanks to our friend Ari Beloved Jones, who taunted me with several precious octopuses, crocheted within snatching distance of my grabby little hands, before kindly and patiently teaching me to make one of my own. So dang cute.</div>
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I know, summer is long past. But I look back on these posts as a narrative of our life, and we might not remember how goofy we all got with Dan's brother's family the summer three of us had our first fancy phones and tried to be cool and take selfies. I'm sharing one, but trust me, there were <i>many</i>.<br />
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We are a big group when we're together, and mostly we eat and play and eat and play and...well, you get the idea! Happily, that is what we do.<br />
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Once in a while, when the weather cooperates and the mosquitoes aren't hovering, we get out for a hike together, which is also lovely. This time it was to Stephens Falls at Governor Dodge park. I hadn't been on this particular hike, and it was beautiful; lush with moss and ferns and water.</div>
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I also have only been to Governor Dodge once - for cross-country skiing - and <i>not</i> gone swimming, so in we went.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">We see this family once a year, and it is mostly watching Ani play with the youngers that squeezes my heart with sadness. They fall into it with such love and affection, figuring out how best to include everyone. She truly fits in with this bunch, content in the middle of the action.</span><br />
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We are still getting to know the youngest, but did she have us wrapped around her finger! Dan and I took a van full of kids over to his parents for a game night, and in the car she pointed out the drink holders and said, you know what we sometimes use these for? Custard! <i>Frozen </i>custard! Below is evidence of her immense powers.<br />
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I have a difficult time making decisions of any kind, but when I first heard about the Women's March on Washington, I didn't hesitate to say <i>yes. </i>It felt absolutely right. To say I had some pent-up energy around the election is an understatement, so having a focus to move towards, even temporarily, was helpful. The girls were in complete agreement.</div>
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My indecision revolved around the how. Drive with friends? Take the over-night bus? Stay outside of DC and ride the train? It was stepping enough out of my comfort zone - into the political arena, with hundreds of thousands of strangers with their own opinions and agendas and raging feelings - that I wanted to get in and get out as quickly and simply as possible, so the over-night bus it was. From step one I was aware that this was a privilege to be so thankful for, having the time to go and the money to spend on the bus. </div>
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Dan did his part for the cause, driving us to the bus at 1:00 in the morning and picking us up again at 2:30 the next morning. Gleep! It was an uneventful, sleepy ride, and we arrived at 8 Saturday morning.</div>
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Ani's highlight of the day was being stuck in the metro, where we disembarked into a wall-to-wall sea of people heading to the march. It was still a pretty sleepy bunch, but once in a while a big "<i>Whooo!!!"</i> would erupt and undulate through the crowd, waking us up with the shivers!</div>
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To be honest, managing the day - finding bathrooms and waiting for bathrooms, having to pee while pressed up against people for hours - was a challenge, but the spirits of everyone around us were so high! There wasn't anything that could dampen the mood. Even the poor security guy assigned to bathroom duty was polite, kind and friendly! So many issues were represented: Black Lives Matter, immigration, LGBTQ rights, No Wall, No DAPL, women's reproductive rights, gun laws...it was a feast for the eyes and for our burgeoning activist selves the day was full of positive action, raised voices and filled hearts. </div>
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Before we left, I'd asked the girls why they felt it was important to march. Eliza said she felt like we were showing up for people who didn't have the option to be there; that this president has made a lot of young women feel like they don't matter, that their voices are not as important, and she wanted to show up to have a voice. Ani told me she was thinking about friends of ours in the community who are Muslim and are here from Saudi Arabia in a tenuous visa situation, following the deportation of the family member who brought them here. She worries for them and knows they are scared to speak up for fear of drawing attention to their situation.</div>
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We returned tired but inspired, ready to move forward to the real work of becoming informed, speaking up and showing up, again and again and again.</div>
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I'm going to back-track a bit and start trying to catch up on the days and days and days...We were trying to remember something the other day and I turned to this blog to confirm and thought, shoot we are up a creek if we're hoping for any kind of record of 2016! </div>
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What does it mean that I begin such a post with photos of kimchi in the making? Hm...Amidst the busy, appreciating the small details, like a brilliantly purple daikon radish.<br />
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We managed to have several game nights with our friends who are back for a few months from Maine. Gotta pack it in while they're here. The favorites right now are Codenames and Dixit.</div>
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The month was about wrapping up activities - Doctor Who history for Eliza (in her usual position on the futon, in pajamas, with Charlie mashed up as close as he can get), fiddle lessons, dance classes.<br />
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The morning after Eliza's fiddle concert, we drove to New York City and landed at the home of the woman who married us sixteen years ago. Ah, to picking up the weaving of lives together...it's been nine years, but who would know? More on that trip in another post. </div>
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January feels like a little bit of a lull between the outer galaxy of December and the resumption of Normal. Time to find the threads that you want to pick up and to clean out what you would rather stay behind. I am trying to be present to that in my days; December felt like a bit too much for me, and I noticed that I worked hard at staying busy with my hands and making lists in my head and on paper, in an attempt to not be still and feel how incongruous the cheer-making of the season felt to me, in the mess that is the world right now. Sometimes the cheer works its magic and lightens the horizon for me, but I felt rushed this year to Get There, and never really caught up to the light. I'm giving myself January to find my footing, gather strength and see where I am. Taking stock through catching up will hopefully feel like fortifying the ground underneath me, remind me of the brilliant light that accompanies my days, whether or not I notice.</div>
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Thank goodness for new beginnings and the opportunity to start over. I have always wished there was more representation of families with older kids homeschooling; I've wanted to look ahead to how things might be, what our days might look like. It's always been helpful for me to know more of the how and the why of people making this choice for their lives. Around here the number of kids staying out of school really dwindles around Eliza's age, and we were noticing recently that kids in their early teens aren't well represented out in the community either! They hit that independent age and aren't along for every family outing and errand. The middles have suddenly disappeared.</div>
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All this to say: I've let this space go silent, and maybe there's someone out there who would like the occasional peek into the future, so I'm making an attempt to come back here and represent one picture of Life as a family with no kids in school...</div>
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But it's been the holidays and so, please, enjoy a glimpse of that. </div>
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My dear family was here, as they have been for the last several years. We feel fortunate to not be traveling further than the livingroom futon this time of year.<br />
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Our holiday was about a lot of hanging out, playing games and eating bags of clementines. The new year came with blue skies and an eerie lack of birds, which did not bode well for our "<a href="https://plotfiftyfive.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-new-year-new-bird.html">bird of the year</a>" tradition. Not at the feeders, not flying by the windows...it was like the avian rapture, until we headed out at Dan's urging to a local ridge to take a sunny walk...ah! Yes. Of course. Geese just where we knew we'd find them, by the river, and for Ani, her first sighting of bluebirds! Lucky girl, with all that happiness to fill her year.</div>
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Oh shoot. I completely missed October here. I'm going to blame it on being glamored by a new photo-taking phone and my complete inability to figure out how to manage the resulting photographs in a way that is conducive to sharing them here in this space! Bedazzled by thousands of photos and no slick way as yet to move them about...I am a slow learner, so I will figure it out, but not in any short order. I've gotten these on by winking, pulling on my earlobe and looking sideways at the computer while crossing my fingers. And hey, <i>it worked!!!</i></div>
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We are embracing the magic here these days. The magic of a Samhain day spent in the woods, marveling over all the greens and the critters in our path. The magic of a huge rock with a person-size hole in it, beckoning to be sat in. The magic of leaf pile and living walkingsticks and stories told out of doors. Autumn songs, pomegranate seeds, slow walking and shuffling through the leaves.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">It was our fourth year working on the <a href="http://plotfiftyfive.blogspot.com/2013/10/and-then-parade.html">Honey for the Heart</a> parade, and it was a bit different. The studio was located on campus, which resulted in more participation by students (I think) and a different level of participation for us and for much of the community. Ani was the most committed of us, and though we didn't make our own costumes, we had a hand in making different puppets and costume pieces - paper mache, painting, sewing, hot-gluing, drawing, tying balloons. When the day came, Dan was out of town for a different performance, Eliza wasn't feeling it, and Ani and I were so tired...but we rallied and walked uptown and found the joy!! We were so glad we put in the effort, there was such a warm happy crowd enjoying the fun.</span></div>
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The best magic not to be overlooked has been the juju of two sisters getting along, enjoying each other's company, getting better at learning to read each other. This is huge, my friends, and it warms my autumnal cockles.<br />
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Our annual trip to Wisconsin always represents the last hurrah of summer to me. Of course there are many warm days left, and maybe even some trips to the beach, but this is our last family hurrah before the change of seasons. The girls and I were alone for the first week, while Dan finished up the season with the new theater. We started in Sheboygan, visiting my dad and his wife...</div>
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One of our favorite places to visit is the Kohler Art Museum. The girls could just stay in the bathroom the whole time, but I also love the exhibits we've seen there.<br />
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Um, yes, you are seeing things correctly. There are insects <i>all over the walls</i> and it was so beautiful, artist <a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/jennifer-angus-renwick-gallery-bugs-338065">Jennifer Angus</a>' imitation of Victorian wallpaper.<br />
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Visiting Dad and Liz was the perfect way to shift into our vacation. I can have trouble visiting, not settling into where we are enough to really be present, and can find myself regretting that I didn't ask more questions or listen better, but there was something about working together that brought me to the moment and facilitated good conversation among us. I felt relaxed and content in their home, so grateful for the ease with which they host us.</div>
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From Sheboygan we drove up to Door County with my sister and niece, to meet my mama for a few more days of relaxation.<br />
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I'm so far behind on chronicling our lives that this is the best I can do! Preserve a few memories and get back to the present...ok, wait. I can do better. We only have this cluster of days once a year, and with kids growing like comfrey I am achingly aware of how few years of those days we have in our sights while they are young. Every trip gets easier between the cousins; they are better at compromise and more tolerant of each other's idiosyncrasies, and they are all so smart and funny. A little like a pile of puppies. Us ladies are pretty good at managing our own quirks as well;) My favorite moments are when we're just sitting, looking at the sky, reading the weather or our books. Drinking morning coffee with my mom, riding shotgun with my sister - <i>seeing a real, living porcupine crossing the road!! - </i>singing to the radio. Playing spoons with my niece, watching her manage her long limbs with great coordination, like a beautiful water bird gracing the shores. Too short, these days.</div>
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The river was high this year, for our <a href="https://plotfiftyfive.blogspot.com/2014/06/river-of-stones.html">annual camping trip</a> to fairyland. This was just after the flooding in West Virginia, and we were worried that the water would be too high, too wild for our yearly anointing. It was so hard to coordinate this group of families, so we were loathe to cancel. We went for it, hoping for the best.</div>
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We armed ourselves with inner tubes. I'm not sure that <i>armed</i> is quite the right word, but we were ready for something. The river <i>was</i> too much the first day, and I played goalie while the kids all bumped around like babies in a playpen, me grabbing and tossing them back towards shore if they started to inch into the current.</div>
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I have this group of children well-trained. <i>Debbie! Debbie! You have to come over here, and bring your camera!</i><br />
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Day two we were in the river all day. It is like our very own waterpark, with enough current to make it really exciting, your feet find hidden standing rocks at just the right moment. A few brave souls walked up river and floated down on the inner tubes, but most of us cheered them on, pushing up the rapids and letting our bodies float us down.</div>
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My kids find their own kind of brave here - their limitations change from hour to hour, and they are happily exhausted by the end of a river day, filled with the satisfaction of pushing their bodies, working together, feeling a part of the water and stones. It feels dangerous enough to feed the spirit, but not so dangerous that I am constantly worried for their safety. Perfect balance. (Except for the moment when a snake swam against my legs and we both got horribly confused and freaked out for a minute. Then I was like, <i>Oh, you're a little snake! and it was like, Oh, legs!</i> and away it went. Thank goodness it was my <i>legs</i>, right?! Shudder.)</div>
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Glorious. I missed it as soon as we were in the car. Our summer has been so busy, but this is the kind of place summer should be full of.</div>
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Oh, Summer. You are so juicy. And hot. Really really really hot. It finally rained today, enough rain to cool things down by a few degrees and revive all living things. Our walks have been relegated to dusk this past week, and Dan and I were treated to a mink sighting and some screech owl whinnies a couple of nights ago...everyone is glad for a bit of cool.</div>
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We don't formally school in the summer (when do we "formally" anything?!) - which is to say that we don't stick to a routine, which has its pros (more sleep for the teen) and cons (a bit of crazy for mom). I anticipated more routine to July, but with my grampa's funeral service we have only a couple of weeks, some of them with Dan gone, and so...Life. We embark on another trip north in a week, so we are mostly just enjoying our days as they are, which is probably just as it should be. It's working.</div>
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Eliza participated in two summer intensives with other high schoolers (gasp!) and college students: mask work and stage combat. She loved both of them.<br />
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She is so capable and game. What a joy to experience as her mama.<br />
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There was <a href="https://plotfiftyfive.blogspot.com/2016/06/fourteen.html">The Birthday</a> - and bowling - and a visit from grandparents...<br />
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There's been so much reading - Dashner's <i>Maze Runner</i> series for Eliza, and <i>The Sisters Grimm, </i>whichever <i>Harry Potter</i> is in nearest reach, and <i>Nancy Drew </i>for Ani. There's been some art-making, like these collage cairns.<br />
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And what is summer without bubbles? There are bunches of DIY bubble solution and wands on the interwebs, and <a href="http://lusaorganics.typepad.com/clean/2013/08/diy-giant-bubble-wand-tutorial.html">we used this one</a> which seems to work pretty well, though the bubbles couldn't get super big with just the Dawn soap we used. Well enough for an evening of merry-making! </div>
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I love that these photos show the girls for the goofballs that they are. How I love them so...So much time together, and we still really like each other. Feeling very very grateful!<br />
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We have our homeschool evaluation tomorrow. I've set us up for grand success, no stress necessary, but still the day has its own way of looming. Today I should have been compiling, sprucing up, and spit-polishing our review of the year, and it started out that way, but...well, life took over. Specifically, we discovered yesterday that it was <a href="http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/">Take A Poet To Work Day</a> <i>today</i> and , well, we love us some poets over here, so down the rabbit hole we went! </div>
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Look! Poet puppets! Ready-made at <a href="http://tweetspeak.com/">Tweetspeak.com</a>! No, I could not resist. Ani and I then spent hours coloring, cutting out, and researching the poets. <i>Mama, do you know what colors this poet liked? Do you know if they had dark skin? </i>We looked up poems to write out on the back, because what is the point of sharing a poet if it doesn't come with some fabulous words? We read haiku, and the beautiful words of Maya Angelou. I pulled out T.S. Eliot's <i>Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats</i> and Ani carried it around for two days, reading it aloud and to herself. T.S. Eliot, <i>you get her!! </i></div>
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You know where this is going, don't you? She does live with theater folk...yes, we had to disclose that there is actually <i>an entire musical devoted to the cat poems of T.S. Eliot!!!!!</i> Blew her mind. Cue youtube. Book in hand, she watched through each one.</div>
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<i style="text-align: justify;">Mama did you notice that most of these poets are men? You know, that's funny, because the first REAL LIVE POET I ever knew was a woman, so I just assumed most of them were girls! </i><span style="text-align: justify;">We did have Emily and Maya and Christina Rossetti, but she had a point, and so I drew a sort-of-near likeness of that very same real live poet, the wonderful warrior poet, Wendy McVicker and we made her into a puppet. Sorry, Wendy; we love you!</span><br />
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...and we dropped Issa and another Wendy off at the local health food store. They seemed to fit right in.<br />
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Well, I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. See, I'm <i>still</i> not shining things up around here, I'm <i>blogging</i> about the rabbit holes. Instead of figuring out how to show there is learning happening here, we just went with the learning. Yes!</div>
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Speaking of poets, not many people knew that my Papa Marzo wrote poetry during his long life! Twenty years ago his sister Jean compiled a small booklet of the ones he could find - tributes to friends during celebratory moments in their lives, anniversary love notes to his wife, my grandma, Eliza, and thoughts about life. My sister and I were asked to read two of them during his service, and I thought you might like to read them.</div>
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Friends are like the seasons:</div>
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they're sure and they're predictable.</div>
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We know that winter follows fall</div>
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promise is sure to come.</div>
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So it is with friends;</div>
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we have our seasons, too.</div>
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But in the end the underlying</div>
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love that has been dormant</div>
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blooms when we need it most</div>
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and our lives are again entwined</div>
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with all the heartbreak</div>
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and the passion</div>
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that true friendship entails. </div>
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<i>Faith</i></div>
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As I approach the</div>
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Inevitable</div>
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I wonder,</div>
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Will I ever fathom the mysteries</div>
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That lie behind that wall.</div>
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Will there be a flash of light</div>
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when all</div>
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once again I face the friends</div>
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Who disappeared before my eyes</div>
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In the Horror that is </div>
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War;</div>
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before</div>
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I could open my heart</div>
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To her</div>
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Because I was too young;</div>
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Not too young in years</div>
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but too young in understanding and </div>
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Expression;</div>
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Will I look down and see my children's</div>
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children</div>
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as they mature and contribute to the</div>
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Betterment of Man</div>
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and, will I smile at each accomplishment</div>
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and, will they know?</div>
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And, yes</div>
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Will I meet my Maker?</div>
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Lucky are they who are so well</div>
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grounded in their faith that</div>
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They have no doubts.</div>
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But, </div>
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I wonder.</div>
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<i>Marzo Bliss</i></div>
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My grampa's name was Marzo P. Bliss, and he always told me the P stood for "perfect". He might have been right about that. Marzo lived in his home that he shared first with his family of four kids, then with his wife, Eliza, and finally on his own, for almost seventy years. He wanted to stay until he died, and he did the next best thing: he lived with my aunt for the last few months, surrounded by people who loved him, and holding onto his sense of humor until he passed away two weeks ago. We gathered this weekend to do our best at saying goodbye.</div>
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Marzo was a calm in the nutty chaos of our family; he was a carpenter with Habitat for Humanity, a sergeant in the US army during WWII, and a gymnast with his sister Jean.</div>
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He was ready to go, tired of saying goodbye to his friends, and there is peace in that for us. The weekend was also about saying goodbye to the house his kids grew up in; the only family house left from my childhood of moving around. We filled it with the sounds of relationship and story this weekend, the silliness I remember from family gatherings when I was a kid, and the occasional burst of tears.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Madison - Marzo Porter Bliss led a life characterized by an abundance of love. He possessed an unassuming but unshakeable commitment to his family and the community that surrounded him, and his presence was an abiding comfort to those around him. We had 98 years of Marzo; we wish we had more. He passed away peacefully on June 30, 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Born downtown in 1918 to Hugh and Erminie Bliss, Marzo was Madisonian to his core. The family had five children; the oldest named Hugh, followed by Anita, then Marzo, his younger sister Jean, and the youngest, Clint. During the Great Depression, his family rented out their apartment in the city, and stayed in a cottage on a hill above Lake Waubesa. The children slept on the porch; Erminie draped a canvas tarp over them to keep the snow off when autumn began to turn. They hitchhiked to school because the family car couldn't make it all the way in.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">He attended West High, where he met the love of his life, Eliza Caswell, and they both enrolled at the University of Wisconsin. Eliza had a lot of pluck, and she asked him to marry her on Bascom hill. They had their wedding on graduation day 1939; they'd go on to enjoy 60 years of life together.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Marzo was drafted into the army the year he was married. He was a sergeant in the Army, and constructed Bailey Bridges throughout France: these were portable truss bridges that allowed tanks to cross rivers. It was a dangerous job, and one that he didn't talk much about for a long time. When the war ended in 1945, he was offered a promotion to stay in Europe, but he was desperate to return home to Eliza, who had given birth to his first child Merry while he was away.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Marzo and Eliza had three more children: David, Carol, and John. The Blisses lived in a postwar house in the Westmorland neighborhood, with a little garden and a shop in the basement. They attended the First Congregational Church, and sang in the choir. For 35 years Marzo worked for an upscale menswear store, selling suits to the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Oscar Mayer, until retiring in 1983, after which he didn't do much dressing up.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Marzo and Eliza had a busy retirement. There were years and years of companionship, and Scrabble after lunch, in their back room where they could watch birds at the feeder. They traveled, visited children and grandchildren, camped, rode bikes in France, and hosted endless Christmas dinners.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">What they did more than anything else, however, was volunteer: with Volunteers in Mission and Habitat for Humanity. Beginning in 1985, Marzo devoted countless hours to building houses with Habitat for Humanity. Marzo pounded nails right to the end, helping to build over 200 homes: he was full of vigor and loved being useful. In recognition of his service, Habitat named a street after him, and he was invited by Jimmy Carter to participate in an international build in Thailand. Marzo declined the invitation, however, because, at 90 years of age, he "didn't want to slow the builders down."</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Marzo led a wonderful life, and these details don't do him justice. He was a self-possessed and really funny man, who seemed to see things with an unusual clarity. When he was needed, he'd be there, patient and unfussy, quick-witted, gentle but unmistakably strong willed. There was a preternatural steadiness to him; he was an oasis of calm love.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.4px;">He is survived by his sister Jean and brother Clint, his four children, ten grandchildren, and fourteen (and counting) great grandchildren. Though Marzo wasn't big on dispensing wisdom, he did seem to have it figured out. He gave us all of his love, and we will dearly miss him.</span></div>
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slim pickinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833617568090157365noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870657841595012572.post-31942542021111122742016-06-27T18:04:00.002-04:002016-06-27T18:04:23.141-04:00JuneIt's only a week past the Solstice, and already I feel like we've had Summer on Steroids around here - trips and visits and swims and <i>the ocean</i>, and to be honest, I'm ready for some lying about, reading and drinking ice water and reading some more. A bit of a vacation from the vacation. <br />
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Dan's got a new job this summer - well, the fruiting body of the long mycelium roots of his new job, to put it in fungal terms, as he's truly been working at this job for over a year. He is the Artistic Director of Tantrum, a new theater with two homes: here at Ohio University, where they rehearse and build the shows, and up in Dublin, north of Columbus, where the season is performed. Our summer was really kicked off with the opening of <i>Little Shop of Horrors</i> at the beginning of June and it hasn't stopped!<br />
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Dan is a bit Ohio-bound this summer with this job, so the girls and I are on our own for some travels. After the opening, we drove to Virginia to visit friends we've had since we lived there eight years ago. We convinced them to travel to the coast with us, which they did willingly, driving to Virginia Beach and Chincoteague, by way of the twenty-three mile long Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel. <br />
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I think one should visit the ocean every summer. Isn't that reasonable?<br />
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<i>Little Shop</i> closed this past weekend, we've had two sets of houseguests, and the girls and I are off on our last June adventure, camping for a few days in West Virginia. July is looking alluringly <i>normal: </i>reading, drinking ice water, and reading some more...</div>
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This girl couldn't wait to be born. She emerged with her arms extended, poopin' and yellin', looking like a wrinkled mini-super hero. Fourteen years later she is still HERE soaking up life, inhabiting her slice of the world with humor and passion. There is no pigeon-holing her teenagedness; she is goofy, sweet, compassionate, curious, opinionated, creative, dreamy, capable, and completely obsessed with apocalyptic sci-fi, succulents and hair. </div>
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If I did not know this girl, I would wish I did. She is a loyal friend and a sweet companion.<br />
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This year has been about sci-fi books (<i>The Hunger Games, The Divergent Series, The Lunar Chronicles, The Maze Runner</i>) and dance and learning to move in a growing body. She rediscovered a gift for music, learning to play the fiddle, picking up old-time music by ear. She would love to sit and watch her favorite movies with you <i>over and over and over, </i>which really shouldn't surprise me since that's how she's absorbed new beloveds since day one, and what better way to connect than over your third watching of <i>Portlandia?</i> Or <i>Zombieland? </i>Or <i>Divergent?</i></div>
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She is spending the weeks around her birthday delving into new things, participating in two theater arts camps - masks and stage combat - with confidence and courage. It turns out I've been <a href="https://plotfiftyfive.blogspot.com/2012/06/solstice-girl.html">saying a lot of the same things about you for years,</a> my daughter, because you have been So You for so long. The way you know yourself is one of the many things I admire about you.<br />
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There's been a lot of plant love around here lately. Ani's been picking out plants for the porch and our small garden, and Eliza has become obsessed with succulents. Obsessed. So when our friends Molly and Noah suggested a trip to the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, we jumped on it. We'd never been there before, but had been talking recently about how much we missed being members of the botanical gardens in Richmond. Both girls have really fond memories of the paths and the pond and the magical journeys we used to have there. </div>
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Franklin Park did not disappoint! The various indoor gardens are arranged in a circle, so you travel from biome to biome - through desert, rain forest, and Himalayan mountains, to the succulent and orchid gardens, the bonsai garden, the Pacific water gardens and the Palm house.</div>
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They were setting up an exhibit inspired by origami, by sculptor Kevin Box and collaborating artists, so every now and then we'd come upon an origami sculpture, made of metal. <br />
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Dan asked me why my mom was coming during one of our craziest weeks of the spring - Ani's birthday, rehearsal and concert week for the women's choir I sing with, and the first week of an intense rehearsal schedule of the inaugural show for the <a href="http://tantrumtheater.org/">theater company</a> for which Dan is the founding artistic director. I looked at him, like, "<i>duh. THAT's why."</i> </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">She is here to be in the thick of it, to absorb enough chaos to make up a smidgen for the distance we usually have in our lives.</span><br />
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We packed it in: games, reading, walks, nail-painting, strawberry picking, cooking, eating, talking, crying, more eating...Our time together is punctuated with, "Oh, have you read this book? Put it on your list!"<br />
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<i>Thank you, Mormsie, for coming to be with us in our busy busy-ness, and for making it feel both special and normal all at the same time. We love you...</i><br />
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I thought <i>magicicada</i> was someone's play on words: <i>Magic cicada. </i>That would be fitting for these creatures, but no, it is the scientific name for the periodic 17-year cicadas that are emerging in Southeastern Ohio this week. Ani and I got up early this morning to walk the neighborhood, looking for signs of their arrival. We didn't have to go far, and within a block found hundreds.</div>
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We found them in all stages of emergence. The one above has just emerged from its nymphal shell, leaving behind its molt, and is hanging there drying. When it's done, it will have pigmentation, orange and black marks, darker wings. It still won't be fully ready to start its vibrational love songs yet; it takes a few days to harden its exoskeleton completely. We won't know exactly what species we have here until they begin "singing".</div>
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We found several that were languishing on the sidewalk, weak and upside down, and they willingly held onto my finger while I transported them to a more suitable spot on a tree. It made me think of <a href="http://plotfiftyfive.blogspot.com/2011/06/high-drones-piercing-whines-kissy.html">this story from a few years ago</a>, of Eliza rescuing a cicada from the water, when it began to purr in her hand. We so often attribute human intentions or sentiments to the behavior of animals, but those animals are usually larger and furrier, with big wet eyes and tongues. I feel those things with cicadas. Maybe it's the big eyes? The slow movements and grateful wrapping of a finger? </div>
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Before my camera battery gave out (it doesn't take too long, and there were so many wonderful moments to record!), Ani and I saw this guy, and we both immediately felt pangs of empathy and tenderness, projecting our own sadness about letting go of the old even while in the throes of the new and beautiful. It's ok, little buddy. We're here to witness your amazing transformation and welcome you to this part of your journey!</div>
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Our little one turned eleven yesterday. Eleven. Parallel lines.</div>
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Same cake every year - because it's SO GOOD - but this year she decorated it.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">She wanted a family potluck, which is our favorite way to celebrate, and we brainstormed some games that the group of kids might play if the thunderstorms rolled through, as predicted. This one is like "pin the tail on the donkey," only I wanted it to be something non-competitive for the three years through almost-fourteen years spread, so I commissioned a "make Anika fancy" drawing from Eliza and it worked great!!</span><br />
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The articles - moustache, eyelashes, bows, hat, goatee, bracelet and name-tag - had magnets glued on the back, so they could play over and over...<br />
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Ok, so the 13 year olds didn't actually play, but it was a huge hit with the three and four year olds present. And Ani.</div>
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She imagines eleven to feel more full of responsibility and more autonomy. I imagine she might be right - and we jointly declared today to be the best first day of a new year ever. Lots of love and good juju...<br />
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