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The Play’s the Thing

May 7, 2010

That we can watch such things for free over the internet via PBS is something for which I am immensely grateful. That this is just one more story we share as a family – that’s priceless.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| The Reading Life|| Visions & Ventures|| Literature
Tagged With: film, Shakespeare, Stories, web
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Boy. Dog.

March 13, 2010

A couple scenes from life with the new puppy.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Local Life
Tagged With: Dakota Shepherd, Dog, Parenting, Pets, Puppy
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Gaylord Nelson at Wyaslung State Park

Madison Reads Leopold, 2010

March 6, 2010

“Yearly, the feathered tempest roared up, down, and across the continent, sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie, burning them in a traveling blast of life….”

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Environment, Holidays, Reading Aloud, Spring
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Mind & Society|| History|| Connected Worlds|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Afghanistan, Army, Baghdad, Chicago Cubs, Germany, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Soldiers, Twitter, Vietnam, War & Peace
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Joy to the World (Bruce Cockburn)

December 22, 2008

Bruce Cockburn’s Christmas is a tradition around here. Thanks to Quercus126 for providing this rendition. If you want to hear it played by the man himself, it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YF8nH7J0o

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Shelved with: Visual Arts|| Local Life
Tagged With: Bruce Cockburn, Christmas, Guitar, Holidays, Music, Video
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Never Underestimate the Mom

August 18, 2008

One of the things I love about Nicole is her periodic flashes of cheeky brilliance.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| Margin Notes
Tagged With: Debate, Kids, Leaders, Politics
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Camp Is Where the Heart Is

August 7, 2008

Summer camp is not really about recreation, but about learning the practices of the group — not affluenza, but apprenticeship. So I asked our boys, “At each of these camps, what did you learn? What did you practice?”

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Shelved with: Continuing Stories|| Local Life|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Boy Scouts, Camp, Camp Fire, Community of Practice, Jules Shell, Mentors, Paradise Park, Religion, Roger Bennet
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We’re off to see…

June 7, 2008

The Lambs & Lettuces!

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Shelved with: Local Life|| Margin Notes
Tagged With: Blanchardville, Circle M Market Farm, Community, Food, Holidays, Spring
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Homeschool Moments: Dishing Out BOF, Dealing with Prejudice

June 1, 2008

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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Shelved with: Continuing Stories|| Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Mind & Society|| Education
Tagged With: BOF, Civil Rights, Community, Danielle Allen, Democracy, Education, Elizabeth Eckford, Food, Homeschooling, Lifelong Learning, Martin Haberman, Memorial Day, Parenting, Politics, Prejudice, Race, Ralph Ellison
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The Hundred-Mile Diet Map and More

May 22, 2008

A new map of food sources within a hundred miles of Madison, Wisconsin, shows kind of connection and sharing that will allow us as human societies to learn to be conscious of and take responsibility for the earthly places in which we live and move.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Barbara Kingslover, Circle M Market Farm, Clay Shirkey, Data Visualization, Deborah Madison, Digital Literacy, Education, Education Infrastructure, Food, Joel Salatin, Kavi Turnbull, Lifelong Learning, Local Food, Localism, Michael Pollan, Networks, Wisconsin
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Katie Kalmerton & Clyde Squire–Requiescat in Pace

April 9, 2008

The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member. And when she buries a […]

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Tagged With: Clyde Squire, Death, Family, Home School, John Donne, Katie Kalmerton, Parenting
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