photo by Janine
Showing posts with label projection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label projection. Show all posts
Monday, April 11, 2022
Adult decisions
photo by Janine
Something looks like this:
light,
projection,
shadows
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Discernment
Decision making requires lots of data and thought and freedom and discernment.
photo by Holly Dodd
Something looks like this:
light,
patterns,
projection,
snow
Friday, October 1, 2021
Rare and precious sharing
Families who share the ways in which unschooling has improved their families and their lives are practicing a kind of transparency that is rare and precious. They are letting others peek into their "private lives." Because they think something has made life better, they reveal things about themselves, to pass that benefit on to others who would like to make their own lives better. |
photo by Brie Jontry
Something looks like this:
light,
pattern,
projection
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Stretchy light and shadow
I like thinking about what something "IS"—as though ideas and things are as solid as elements. Well... solid elements, anyway.
I like this photo. It matches the idea that glass itself is a very slow moving liquid, rather than a solid.
Does the projection show what's in the jar? It's not sticky, or sweet, that color the sun made, in that shadow. We don't know for sure that what was in the jar was sticky or sweet, either, but I'm extrapolating. So much extrapolation, in our lives, about the past, and the present and the future. At least I hope it will light you up, sometimes, and you can cast a long, pretty shadow.
Practice acceptance
photo by Lisa J Haugen
I like this photo. It matches the idea that glass itself is a very slow moving liquid, rather than a solid.
Does the projection show what's in the jar? It's not sticky, or sweet, that color the sun made, in that shadow. We don't know for sure that what was in the jar was sticky or sweet, either, but I'm extrapolating. So much extrapolation, in our lives, about the past, and the present and the future. At least I hope it will light you up, sometimes, and you can cast a long, pretty shadow.
Practice acceptance
photo by Lisa J Haugen
Something looks like this:
lens,
perspective,
projection,
shadow
Friday, November 9, 2018
Surprising beauty
Why travel to an art museum when a bus stop can do this?
But it won't do it all day, or every day. Light, projections, shadows, are fleeting, and people aren't always there to see them.
Art museums are good, but art is unfolding all around us.
photo by Elaine Cambridge
Something looks like this:
architecture,
projection,
shadow
Monday, October 8, 2018
Seeing and Doing
Go to parks, pick up sticks, ride bikes to new places, swing on the swing differently, make bubbles and blow them in front of a fan. Look at stars at night and try to find constellations, light things on fire with magnifying glass, roast hot dogs for dinner (it's cheap), the possibilities are limitless, but only if you choose to see them.
—Jenny Cyphers
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Something looks like this:
lights,
museum,
projection,
shadow
Monday, October 1, 2018
Laugh, think, smile
Do you know what I have done lately whenever I'm feeling a bit down? I listen to one of your talks! It makes me laugh, it makes me think, it makes me smile, it makes me feel awe and it makes me go right back to my daughter and my husband and touch them and kiss them.
I love your voice, I love your laughter. It calms me, what can I say?
—Marta Venturini Machado
2012
2012
and there are things to hear at SandraDodd.com/listen.
photo by Amber Ivey
Something looks like this:
colors,
light,
perspective,
projection
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Hopeful, happy thoughts
Consciously draw in more hopeful, happy thoughts. Without leaving your home, without leaving your chair, you can turn 90 degrees and get a different view. |
photo by Amber Ivey
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Rainbow connections
If you can't connect ponies, rainbows, unicorns, Kermit, joy and immersion, read at the link below.
But I suppose you could, with a little thought, connect all those things one way or another.
photo by Amber Ivey
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Clarity and focus
Clarity and focus make things easier.
Muddly confusion make things harder.
photo by Janine Davies
Something looks like this:
light,
projection,
shadow,
stuff
Saturday, August 12, 2017
The expectation of learning
It seems lately that more and more people want to know exactly HOW to unschool, but the answer is not what they expect.
Looking back at these stories, in light of others like them, the best recommendation I can make is to open up to the expectation of learning. It helps if the parent is willing for a conversation to last only fifteen seconds, or to go on for an hour.
Remember that if your “unit study” is the universe, everything will tie in to everything else, so you don’t need to categorize or be methodical to increase your understanding of the world. Each bit is added wherever it sticks, and the more you’ve seen and wondered and discussed, the more places you have inside for new ideas to stick.
A joyful attitude is your best tool. We’ve found that living busy lives with the expectation that everything is educational has made each morning, afternoon and evening prime learning time.
The "lately" in that quote was in 2002.
The photo is Holly's hand, in August 2017.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Most things are many things
See things.
Appreciate them.
photo by Lydia Koltai
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Something looks like this:
flower,
pattern,
projection,
reflection,
water
Saturday, July 18, 2015
As good as a nap
An attitude of abundance and gratitude can be as good as a nap. Abundance Gratitude Change |
Something looks like this:
projection,
shadow,
window
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Changing sensibilities
Does it seem like common sense, after a few years of unschooling, that it's good to let people sleep if they don't need to be anywhere? And that the nicer you are to them, the nicer they're likely to be to you and to others? It seems like common sense to me that learning is learning regardless of the source, and that what's engaging and fun has value.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Something looks like this:
pattern,
projection,
shadow,
window
Monday, August 18, 2014
One peaceful choice
Lisa J Haugen wrote:
I make one peaceful choice, one bonding, relationship-building choice. Just one little choice.
Then it's easier to make the next one, and the next one, and sometimes there's wobble, but rebuilding peace and self esteem one choice, one moment at a time, is doable! When you do that you can get to really sweet, joyful, soul-warming places.
SandraDodd.com/choices
photo by Sandra Dodd
I make one peaceful choice, one bonding, relationship-building choice. Just one little choice.
—Lisa J Haugen
photo by Sandra Dodd
Something looks like this:
lights,
patterns,
projection
Monday, August 4, 2014
Let's go see!
Explore the normal.
SandraDodd.com/deblewis/discovery
photo by Sandra Dodd
Something looks like this:
door,
frame,
passageway,
projection
Monday, August 1, 2011
Let him sleep
Going to sleep and waking up shouldn't be about the feeling of control the parent can gain from demanding and commanding.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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Something looks like this:
projection,
shadow,
shadows,
window
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
How will they learn everything they need to know?
"How will they learn everything they need to know?"
Do the best of the high school graduates know everything they need to know? No, and at some point, ideally, they start learning on their own. Some fail to get to that point, though. Unschooled kids have a head start. They know how to find what they need to know, and they have not been trained to ignore things that won't be on the test.
photo by Sandra Dodd
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