Tag Archives: children

May20

garage sale.

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loved visiting the grandies
and their friends from the neighborhood
at their very own garage sale for kids.
they made signs
waved to cars
 took turns being the dj in the garage
keeping the music going
and offering specials
(like the ‘wear two things on your head and get one free discount’)
every few minutes.
reminds me of me when i was a kid
though I usually ended up spending my profits
buying my friends’ stuff
and they often did the same with mine.
sometimes I even ended up
with more stuff than I had started with.
 a pretty fun time for all
and some things are timeless.
—
I remember going with my mom
to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking
what a cool treasure hunt that the whole world was.
only to transition as an adult to think,
‘what a gross place that really is.’
– will ferrell
May18

team.

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so fun 

to watch grandie j

and his team

 just at the beginning

of learning skills and strategies

but they all try really hard

accept each other just as they are

and have such a light-hearted team spirit.

—

“with an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.”

-tahir shah

May17

in every way.

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kinder take a closer look at the wooly sheep’s children

before they come over

to feel the human childrens’ gentle touch.

 

—

“any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own

and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.”

– john muir

May10

light and color.

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playing with light and color

creating a new vision.

 

— 

“light, that first phenomenon of the world,

reveals to us the spirit and living soul of this world through color.”

~ johannes itten, bauhaus colorist

 

Apr26

wide world.

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one kinder who has created his own atlas

teaches another

about the world he’s discovered

by reading books.

and the Dinos are standing by too

just taking it all in. 

—

“the wide world is all about you:

you can fence yourselves in,

but you cannot forever fence it out.”

-j. r. r. tolkien

Apr24

how much does it cost?

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kinders baking in the spring kitchen. 

 

—

“the price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

-henry david thoreau

 

 

Apr18

such things to be.

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kinders get ready to enter a ‘new/old world.’

—

“so many worlds,

so much to do,

so little done,

such things to be.”

-alfred lord tennyson

Apr9

two directions.

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kinders always find more than one way.

 

—

“even the straightest path has two directions.” 

-paul macauley, into everywhere

Apr8

parts.

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the theory of loose parts and the right to be creative.

(kinders live this every day)

—

“in any environment,

both the degree of inventiveness and creativity,

and the

possibility of discovery,

are directly proportional

to the number

and kind of

variables in it.”

-theory credit: Simon Nicholson – The Theory of Loose Parts, 1971

Mar7

the world.

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“the world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

-jean-jacques rousseau
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the kinders know this to be true.