Month: January 2015
This week, Museum and Permaculture
This week was well packed. We’ve been getting more offerings from parents and our weeks are really starting to fill out. Lilly has been teaching Chinese. We did numbers on Wednesday and some simple words on Friday. On Thursday we visited the Frye Museum and saw a cool audio video show. The students did most …
Two Boots, a Cool Disk Game
I learned a game up at Cloud House over the break. It’s a disk game (disk is the general term for Frisbee, which is a brand of disk. Much like Kleenex is used to describe tissue paper) that, at the time I learned it, involves 2 boots. It’s very easy to play and can be …
Movement, Lunch, and Making Plans
I had a good day today. I feel really good energy coming out of the school and am excited to see what grows this year. Tomorrow is our first Chinese class and the day after that is our first permaculture day. Today we planned a trip to the Frye Museum for this coming Thursday. We had …
Knife skills, pickling, and D&D
Today was great! We played some geoguessr in the morning. My good friend Katie came by today and taught us knife skills and pickling. I learned about a great way to cut up an onion (leave the root intact and don’t slice all the way through, so when you slice it all holds together). I learned that …
Trip to Whidbey Island
We drove the van to the ferry and over to Whidbey Island where we went to visit the Whidbey Institute. Once we arrived our guide Robert met up with us. We introduced ourselves and talked a bit about what our school was all about. Then we kanbaned what we wanted to do for the day: …
Making Offerings Work
Yesterday was our first day back, the start of a new term. I’m hoping that the theme of this new term will be more parental involvement. Last year the students learned the process, intention setting, collaborative play, and reflection. We carved out the space, now it’s time to fill it. Typically we fill our space …
Setting the term, back to Everett
I’ve returned to the Pacific Coast and to Everett from my vacation back home, or where I think of as home, New York City. I ate the whole big apple while there. I went all over the city from Coney Island to upstate. Here’s my photo essay: Now I’m back and I’m excited: Lilly has …
Failure is Cool
A few years ago I started to dabble in the collective housing and cooperative community scene, it’s something I’ve become really passionate about. As such I talk about it, a lot. When I speak to people about cooperative living, they often listen politely and then cite a failed situation—with a roommate or cumbersome decision-making process—as proof …
Wikipedia is the greatest direct action of all time, or why we need to document
Let’s take a look at what Wikipedia did last year: I consider myself an activist. In activism there is a term called Direct Action (here’s the Wikipedia article about it). Which basically means doing something to enact change, as opposed to asking or negotiating for change. Wikipedia represents to me people taking control of the worlds …