Pursuing Growth: Phase 2 Sculpting Project 1: Back to the Future Progress Report The aspen leaves are quaking brilliant yellow, the too blue sky has begun to cloud up. I’m straddling a log with my computer propped up, recalling my summer of Back to the Future Sculpting. It began by admitting that I was a…
Back to the Future: Pursuing Growth Project 1
Pursuing Growth (PG) Sculpting Project 1: Back to the Future I tend to be a workaholic. I love accomplishment. Every day I have more things I really want to do than can be done in a day. These tendencies have real benefit and real detriment in my life. I am well aware of the benefits,…
Reflections on Unschooling
Reflections on Unschooling When Claire was 5 and Terese was 3 I (Cheri) made a radical choice to home-school It had just become legal in Washington State and I knew of only one other family who had taken the dive. Ironically my big concern was that my children might not turn out normal. Just like…
Sculpting Project 25: Risks are the Road: Week 1
Sculpting Project 25: Risks are the Road: Week 1 Marti’s eyes open wide as she watches my browning marshmallow seriously sag towards the fire. “You’re such a risk taker,” she exclaims! Evan and I laugh. Marti had just told us scary stories of her hot air balloon adventures and my sagging marshmallow just didn’t feel…
Sculpting Project 24: 7 Essential Brain Nutrients: Week 2
Sculpting Project 24: 7 Essential Brain Nutrients: Week 2 This week I established that I am a one nutrient woman. My brain gets a full serving of Focus time as often as I can manage. I do get a fair amount of Physical time but only because much of my focused time is physical. I…
Sculpting Project 24: 7 Essential Brain Nutrients: Week 1
Sculpting Project 24: 7 Essential Brain Nutrients Week 1 I spend a good part of my day in a focused attention finishing a writing project. I am in ‘flow’, lost in time. It is largely satisfying, but I emerge in a fog. What does mind need to do to reach equilibrium? This focused time is…
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