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How to explain humanity to children, from a book on the Montessori method

From the first day we humans walked about the earth, we have loved one another and the places where we live. We love our food and our customs. We humans look around us and find ways to help one another and make things better. We can't help wondering about everything on earth, in the universe, and in our minds and hearts. We humans like to decorate everything--our languages, our homes, our cities, our bodies, and even our ideas. We like to stay at home, and we like to travel. We are driven to explore all around us, all the way to the stars. We like to tell one another what we think and know, and we like to hear all about what others think and know. We like to celebrate. We humans are drawn back to the past and forward to the future. We want to know who we are, where we come from, why we are here, what everything means. We want to know about birth and death and God. Our greatest power is love, and we are the best and the happiest when we love the most.

Sometimes we are sick or hurt in our hearts or minds and we need each other's love even more. We cannot let people be hurt or treated unfairly. We must stop the hurting and the unfairness. It is hard work figuring out how to stop the hurting without hurting back. We don't always know how to do that yet, but we will never stop trying.

Aaron is going into a Montessori program for 1st grade and I couldn't be more excited about the new direction his education is going to take.

• 10:25 Turns out spanakopita doesn't survive a bike ride very well. #

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• 13:31 First tweet from Skytap's new offices. Wetpaint are our neighbors. #
• 14:03 Tony (nefarious) just paid me a visit. He works at wetpaint and we're neighbors! #

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• 19:19 "Where are your shifters?" Taught a motorcyclist about STI, feeling the two-wheel love connection. #

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Venessa and I tried Amazon Fresh for the first time yesterday.

Pros:

• Convenience. It was fun to sit on the couch and pick stuff out. And this morning, there were the 6 boxes waiting for us when we woke up, like a pack of rotund, brightly colored children.


• Filters. As a locavore it's time-consuming to look at packages. There's a "local" filter which made it simple. There are also "organic" and "no HFCS" filters, but walking into a PCC is essentially the same.


• Dry ice. The frozen goods came with dry ice, which I made into a Witches brüe in the sink.


• Carbon footprint. I loathe driving to the store, but sometimes time constraints force me to do it. Our order was delivered by a truck that was already in the area.


• Free flowers. Not sure if it was a mistake or a gift, but there was a bouquet of flowers in the order.

Cons:

• Price. The order was about $25 more than a comparable shopping trip would have been. We got a $20 discount for being a first-time shopper*, so it was pretty much a wash.


• Packaging. I asked for no bags, but they shipped stuff in bags. I counted about 6 plastic bags and one paper bag. The crates themselves were packed inefficiently which isn't wasteful, just annoying.


• Wrong food. I asked for veggie bacon and I got veggie canadian bacon. It looks good though, so I'm not too upset. Out of the 25 things we ordered that was the only mistake.

Not sure if we'll try this again, but it was fun. The selection was better than I thought.

Bonus section
Grocery stores if they were Seattle radio stations:

• Trader Joe's: Jack FM. There's an edgy and iconoclastic facade, but you're really just getting the same mass produced shit as everyone else in the country.


• PCC: 91.3. You tell yourself you should listen to it more, but you make it through a couple songs every once in a while and then change the dial.


• Safeway: 93.3. Every second you spend on this station you feel yourself losing an IQ point.


• Whole Foods: Public Radio. Pledge drives and Whole Foods are both known to rob you of all you're worth.


• Grocery Outlet: Internet radio. Shop here at your own risk. Many WTF moments.

Anyone have others?

* Coupon code is "SPROUT" if you want to try it. Expires at the end of June

• 09:07 Glad I didn't take off my fenders/wheel eyebrows/filth prophylactics. #

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• 08:53 Took a "long cut" to work today, got in a few extra hills near Frink Park. Scoping out bike routes for the boys to ride to summer camp. #
• 12:32 Three kilometres from the summit, in a landscape of stone, where the mountain becomes most arid, the Briton began to wobble. #
• 16:13 I've been an ordained ULC minister for over a decade and I'm finally doing a wedding this summer! (not my own) #

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• 21:23 New Bethurum album hot off the press: www.lala.com/#album/2810527642993310201 #

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• 20:03 Seeing if the energy input from ice cream man = energy output of wind sprints. Have two 6 yr old subjects for experiment #

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My LJ turned 8 yesterday. Here are the first entries. What a long strange trip it's been!

No, it's not a code phrase for something in the secret service. The chickens are finally outside. Their first two nights were those two nights in a row where it RAINED like heck. They survived that so I think they can survive pretty much anything. They don't have access to typewriters so they haven't asked for electric blankets yet.

By now they've learned to go into their coop when it gets dark, so all we have to do is latch the door shut, then open it again in the morning. It's fun to watch them run and do their little flying routine. It's also interesting to see what foods they like (lettuce: yes. cantaloupe: no). They should be laying eggs by Fall.

eta: That's a picture of the coop with the roof open. When it's closed (which is most of the time), it's water proof. Also, the coop is 18" off the ground so the chickens can get relief from the sun or rain by chillaxin underneath.