Woke up to more snow this morning. I am ready for spring. Bummer for me, eh? So much winter left to go.
Reading: Weapons of Mass Instruction (A School Teacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling) by John Taylor Gatto
Ah, Mr. Gatto. What to say about him and his writings? Either you get it or you don’t. Either you listen to his message, react or you ignore and continue to believe in a system that does more harm than good. I’m not in an argumentative mood today, so I won’t pull quotes from the book.
If I had a category here called, “A Book I Dare You to Read,” this one would be at the top of the list.
Playing: Scrabble Flash
The game is simple: make words with the plastic, rectangle letters. Happily addicting, not as easy as it looks. Great for solitary play.
Learning: What did I learn this week? Having a hard time answering this today. What did I learn this week? Certainly I learned something; but can’t remember to record it here now.
My brain might possibly be frozen along with the snow.
Here is something I am interested in learning more about: renewable energy. As I read aloud from The Way Things Work by David Macaulay to my boys this week, I noticed a page on wind turbines. Then in the back of Gatto’s book is a plug from the publisher to read their books regarding natural building and renewable energy.
Yes, please. I must learn more. Plus I think those wind turbines are the coolest looking things to have in your yard.
Reacting: Meh. I got nothin’ this week, other than the fact that I finally reacted to the large pile of papers gathering dust in my workspace.
The pile languished for over a year, filled with recipes needing organization, unused coupons, two cookbooks, homeschool catalogs and other various scraps of paper having no proper home. Saturday I pitched the whole lot. I scooped it up, pulled out the catalogs to recycle, saved the cookbooks and stuffed the rest into the trash – without looking at more than three scraps of paper. That’s huge for me. Typically, I carefully weed through, decide I need it, but get distracted before I finish the job.
Very happy I reacted to the Clutter Pile.
In other news, I might have an opinion on the State of the Union speech given by President Obama last night.
Or I might not.
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