Bleeding Heart
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
I love languages and learning about the origins of words and phrases. I collect quotes. I also love gardens. It shouldn’t have been surprising at all, but it just dawned on me that the majority of my quote collection is linked to gardening in some way. One of my particular [...]
Here’s a new favorite quote (author unknown) that gives some insight:
Most people don’t know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don’t get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life.
One thing that is very nice about Avery Point’s Coastal Studies program… it’s very intimate. My class (technically seniors) is very small, a total of 9 people. The class behind ours is not terribly larger with around 14 or so. One could easily have the entire class comfortably show up and sit around chatting after [...]
In watching “The Muppet Show”, Johann has been introduced to a number of actors and artists that he had never heard of before. So he would ask about what made these people well-known. “Who is Gene Kelly?” led to us watching “Brigadoon”, “An American in Paris”, and “Singing in the Rain”. “Who is Jim Nabors?” [...]
Johann came to me completely puzzled the other day and asked me how you say “that word” from Mary Poppins. I asked him if he meant “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” He replied grimly, “Yeah. That’s the one.” The last time Johann asked me to teach him how to say it, it was too frustrating for him. This time [...]
Just to bookmark a pretty good article with a great title about Stage 17.
As part of our world geography lessons we just began a Robinson projection map puzzle. Johann is already learning a lot and Eric and I are realizing how little we learned in school! The land pieces are cut out around all the countries. In the case of the United States, most of the states are [...]
Watching Netherland vs. Portugal on Univision:
Johann: The goalie (Ricardo, POR) got kicked in his preposterous end!
Tammy: (laughing) You mean his posterior end? Preposterous means absurd or crazy.
Johann: Yeah, his preposterous end!
This sonic alarm is hilarious…until someone uses it on me!
I’m notorious for being a heavy sleeper, can sleep right nice even with a war crashing about my ears. One of these days I’ll have to reprogram myself to be an early riser like Tammy and my dad.
Tammy is the greatest and serves as my alarm [...]
Harbinger of SpringOriginally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
Today marks the return of the robin to Mystic. Large voracious flocks of them have descended on the berries and trees here. I tried counting them, but they were flitting to and fro in large numbers. At one point there were at least 25 stripping the remaining berries from [...]
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