What's Been Cast Off This Week
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There’s a deeper malaise going on, physically and spiritually, in the air, maybe long covid or long lyme, microplastics. Point five percent of what we now eat is plastic, they say. An alarm I’ve been sounding for about twenty years: from the Bahamas, its protected beaches strewn with plastic. In Chicago, in the aughts, I have a distinct and virtuous memory of using a carbon calculator. At a
0The Fool
I'm thinking of taking up clowning. Inventing clown yoga. Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Fool, the Zero, self-consciously taking on the attire of the jester, of poking fun at those in power, and also of my own desire for prestige, for security, for stability. Falling down instead. The thing Trumpists and their ilk, nationalists, anti-science
“It is not enough for the teacher to
love the child. She must first love and understand the universe.
She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.” —Dr. Maria
Montessori
we try out some Montessori
I’ve been reading a lot about Dr. Maria Montessori (Italy, ca. 1900) and Montessori-based education.
I’ve written about it here before. Although it can feel
overwhelming, this sense that
A perfect example
What I want for my daughter, from friends and family, for her second birthday (or for Christmas, or any subsequent gift-giving occasions):
-Above all, clean air, water, and earth: to remember that what we want most for our daughter is a future unpolluted by plastic waste, uncorrupted by vast consumer monopolies, and that our most ardent wish is that money not be spent
Why feminism is worth fighting for
My second post of 2018, and my first since June. I am writing less briskly but I am still writing. That’s important. Last year we moved to Wareham, Massachusetts.
I spent last summer driving back and forth to Maine for Sagan’s immunizations, and working on the new house. The move was in September--a whole year ago now--and the walls and
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