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Solstice Seeds

Dark Skies and Wide Horizons A dark sky dispatch from the Dark Sky Community of Norwood, Colorado By Ellen Metrick President, Norwood (Colorado) Dark Sky Advocates Dec. 21, 2024 It’s not snow that flies through the morning blue skies, it’s cattail fluff, breeze-borne seeds on this bright winter solstice morning. Yesterday, honey bees searched greenContinue reading “Solstice Seeds”

Lumin/ahhhh/sity

for Bob and Doug specked your little brightness traveling our starscape Saturday night, then your earlier interview, just an hour before, your farewells from the station made your light shine warmer knowing the beings in the luminosity, and next day — to see you splash down earth birth from Dragon’s belly ahhh, darkness and descentContinue reading “Lumin/ahhhh/sity”

Whitewater Rafting, Parenting, and Coronavirus

When my daughter decided to lodge herself in my uterus, I hadn’t exactly planned for being pregnant. I had told my partner that if we did somehow end up with a fertilized seed, I would carry the child and raise them. He agreed. Two months later, we were pregnant. Like she’d just been waiting forContinue reading “Whitewater Rafting, Parenting, and Coronavirus”

Planning for Grief in the Middle of Everything

Maybe it’s because I’m listening to Brene Brown and David Kessler. Their conversation today on Brene’s podcast “Unlocking Us” brings understandings forward that I may not otherwise have. We are all dealing with the collective loss of the world we knew, says Kessler. I think often about losing the world I know, especially when myContinue reading “Planning for Grief in the Middle of Everything”

Asking Questions

Beginning by asking questions. The main one, What engages students in their own learning? Reading Leaders of Their Own Learning (Berger, 2014), and working at bringing intentional learning targets into the classroom with student engagement. I am feeling like I need partners or, better yet, a mentor to whom I can put my own questions,Continue reading “Asking Questions”