Tag Archives: Community

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The Lambs & Lettuces!

Circle M Farm’s Second Annual
Lambs and Lettuces Festival
June 7, 2008
1784 County Rd. H, Blanchardville, WI
Noon to 1 Snakes Alive!
1 to 2 pm Horse Grooming and Rides for Little Ones
2 pm on…Spinning Wheel Demonstration
2 to 5 pm Knitting Circle with Expert Help
3 pm Shearing Demonstration
3:30 to 5:30 pm Wooly Fun with Dye, Felt and Spindles
5:00 pm Milking Goats and Bottle-Feeding Babies
6:30 pm […]

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Homeschool Moments: Dishing Out BOF, Dealing with Prejudice

Overcoming prejudice and distrust is not a one-time attitude adjustment, but a continuing journey in the company of people who are not like us, but who may become our civic friends. Such a strategy might go a long way toward more important goals: building a supportive environment for homeschoolers, and reinvigorating the varied practices of education & learning in America today.

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What Are Blogs? Not Monologues but Conversations

Perhaps the best thing about the web, and the blogosphere in particular, is that it enables you to connect with like-minded people you might never meet otherwise.
 — Kriss M. at Circle M Farm
On January 27th, 2008, Reading Circle Books will host its first group! In her wonderful invitation to our first Reading Circle, […]

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Veteran’s Day

Some thoughts on a solemn fall day, on what we owe soldiers as leaders, and as fellow citizens.
First, from a veteran leader:
I want to share with all of you a picture that I have carried with me for more than 50 years. This is my father, when he was a young Air Force captain, flying […]

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Real Life Superheroes

And for All Saints Day, a shout-out to Red Justice, Street Hero, Direction Man, the Super, and all the other Real Life Superheroes!
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The Community in Action

Studs Terkel on prophetic community… .
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Of Lists and Learning

Educators (parents, teachers, activists) spend a lot of time trying to figure out just what it is they are up to. At the end of the day, what makes a person educated?
Teachers in the classroom are continually confronted with lists, some of them mandated, of things that their student should be able to know and […]

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