http://www.asliceofsky.com As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:11:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a frazzling start to the year, I am ready to spend the rest of my days baking cookies and sewing. It won't matter that the cookies I bake may not turn out (to be cookies) or that the product of my labour of love with needle and thread will ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/ta-da/ A sheaf of wind. The Waterhorse Suite. Children's voices playing. Quiet. I live for such days!! We're done with the pre-Christmas flurry of carolling, gatherings, performances and gifts. Is Christmas ever complete without these? I suppose so. Several Christmases back, all we could manage were home-made gifts for each other and a ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/gusts-of-wind-the-waterhorse-and-the-ordinariness-of-christmas/ I loved this song when I first heard it while watching "Joseph King of Dreams". http://www.asliceofsky.com/through-ways-unknown/ Lord, help me see the bigger picture when there are clothes waiting to be folded, schoolbooks lying unmarked, meals begging to be cooked, little ones asking to be played with and read to. Help me remember Your call upon my life when all I see are books unread poems unwritten songs unsung adventures untaken. Stir me into awakenness- so that amidst the clamor ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/the-bigger-picture/ We adopted a dog several weeks ago. She's a mixed-breed with some retriever and German Shepherd genes plus, I suspect, a hint of terrier thrown in what with her incessant digging and poking into holes. We've spent quite a bit on deworming medicines, Frontline (anti-tick spray/application), dog food and dog ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/a-note-for-dog-lovers/ Here's a collage of several projects that we did this year. The first one is a model of the cell of an animal. We also had fun dyeing a cloth purple by using grapeskins. We experimented with different kinds of arrow heads. Of course, we wished we had the real ones, but ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/homeschooling-and-us-3/ We live in interesting times. We also live in anxious times where promises are glibly made and broken. We huddle for warmth around the illusion of a better government and a fairer society that is marked by clasped hands instead of clenched fists. As time passes, we find that ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/lighting-a-miracle/ Sometime in March, we read about different kinds of volcanoes . Joy "built" her own virtual volcano on the Discovery Channel ( see http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/interactive/interactive.html) We also read about Pompeii and viewed photos on the web of the actual site. I visited the ruins back in the nineties and took several shots ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/homeschooling-and-us-projects-part-2/ We’ve   been formally homeschooling for almost half a year now. That’s not a long time in comparison. I must qualify that statement though. for we’ve not stopped homeschooling our children from the time they were born. From the time when they were weeks out of the womb, we sang, talked ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/143/ “Augustus And His Smile” by Catherine Rayner.2006. Little Tiger Press. Picture Book. Ages 2-6. The storyline is very simple: Augustus the tiger, wants to find his smile. He searches for it across hills and forests. In the end, he finds it in a pool of water. Augustus realizes that his smile ... http://www.asliceofsky.com/tiger-tales-2/