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Reflections, news, inspiration, commiseration, stream-of-consciousness....
Miranda
Reflections, news, inspiration, commiseration, stream-of-consciousness....
Miranda
I've had the case more than ten years (can't remember exactly) and the only problem I had with it before recently was that the elastic that holds the bow tube on stretched. But...then all the ************ failed within a few months (this hasn't been going on long) and I realized that we were looking at Condition Super Critical. I wish I'd cut off the pouch a long time ago now; it actually looks like it was meant to look that way! But because the zippers don't look easy to replace, will probably end up making its own snug jacket! (I have thermoplastic cases that are Older Than God and still functional...why is it that the cheapest sometimes last the longest?)Ooh, my sister has a Bam Trekker. She loves it for urban commuting and walking to and from her studio in all kinds of weather. Hers has stood up really well. The only thing she dislikes is having to use the bow tube.
My violin case is 33 years old. About 15 years ago I sewed a new Cordura zippered cover for it. That's now all that's holding it together.
It is indeed. And I really appreciate the way you have teased apart the empathy, and the actions, and the emotions of love. They're all a little different, yet they're all interconnected.But yesterday, it was there, even in the midst of the intensity. That is progress.
Hehe, I'm a lifelong procrastinator too. But as my life has got more chaotic and less compartmentalized, and as I've got older and less willing to deal with unnecessary stress, I've discovered that there's a great feeling that comes from waking up in the morning and knowing that there is nothing hanging over my head that I have been putting off.Any one got any suggestions on getting things done?
Well said. Part of the paradigm that "math is boring and only nerds have fun with it".It always bugs me a little when people talk about unschooling math only through the lens of practicality (measurements, prices, etc...). People don't say that it's okay to unschool english because there are game directions and road signs and recipes that will need to be read -- they talk about how awesome stories and books are. Why the disparity?
For sure. But we could do a lot better! There are so many missed opportunities to play with numbers. Even just silly things, like a kid saying they're falling down "a million times" and me replying with quick mental calculation to figure out how long they'd have to fall down at a once per second rate to reach that million. And playing with words is great too. Now I'm reminded of the expedition when we all memorized poetry, including the Jabberwocky. I should see if my kids want to do that again. Now, I'm not nearly so successful inspiring them to actually want to read anything, but playing with language -- that we can do.Math is not our "native language". Our fluency, therefore, is not as easily achieved, and when we combine the relative lack of mathematical discourse in our homes and in our lives compared to language-- and I could say this about very mathematical households-- then we will not reach the cultural fluency that enables the kinds of expressions that verbal language enjoys. .