Believe me when I say that I don’t normally like scented products. At all. I go for the unscented version of everything I possibly can. For some reason I can’t fathom, I bought a bottle of J R Watkins Lemon Cream Hand & Body Lotion at the store one day. Now I adore it, I want to eat it, it smells so much like buttery lemon cookies. It’s not a very strong scent and it doesn’t linger. Most of all, it doesn’t make me sneeze or itch or give me a rash. It’s also free of most of the worst crap in most lotions. I’m sure it isn’t for everyone, but I really do love this stuff.
Maybe the makers will see my awesome blog post and send me a free case! Hahahahaha!
This article is timely for me, it goes along with some thoughts I’ve been churning in my head for a while. Rebecca is very bright, curious, intelligent and creative. There’s NOTHING wrong with her. But I do not believe she would be very successful in a traditional school setting and I believe her inability to do so would lead to all sorts of problems. She doesn’t have a disability or a disorder or any such crap unless you judge her solely on the rigid and arbitrary method of learning in almost all schools. Rebecca learned to read just fine and now reads very well, but she learned “late” and I feel certain any school would have required some kind of special something-or-other because she would have had so much trouble learning to read in the prescribed way when she was 5, or 6, or even 7. They might say she has ADHD because she can’t sit still when she’s reading, or being read to, because she can’t concentrate very well if she isn’t fidgeting or fiddling with something, or because she loses things, forgets things, and hates to do math any other way than with her eyes closed. Heh.
I am a big fan of The Black Apple, I’ve bought a couple of her pieces over the years, including a locket that I love very much. I am currently lusting after this collection of postcards withe a deep deep desire. I love the series so much, all the pieces, but bonus love to Tom the Barker, looking so much like my older-man beau Tom Waits. *sigh*
I’m so very VERY thankful I had a couple of pairs of really good shoes before we ended up without a car. I’d have been severely bummed without my incredible Keens. Neither pair was new at the time we started riding the bus/walking everywhere, and I’ve been wearing them every day for the last year and a half. One pair (the older of the two, they must be at least three years old and I wore them a LOT even when we still had a car) is starting to show their age and I’m looking to replace them soon-ish. I might get another pair of Keens since I know I love them, but I’m intrigued by these Terra Plana Vivo Barefoot shoes. I’ve read a lot of reviews and almost all of them are positive and many of them glowingly, gushingly positive. What I can’t tell, though, is how much any of the reviewers actually walk. It’s my experience that shoes I thought were comfy when I had a car are NOT so comfortable when you walk everywhere (Bjorns, I’m looking at you, you awful awful shoes that I used to love so much). I’ve also come to realize that going for a walk, and going for a walk while carrying a bunch of crap with you are very very different kinds of walking and your shoes will matter. When Rebecca and I go for walks around the neighborhood at night, we march right up our hill and arrive at our driveway huffing, but still mostly lively. But when we walk up and have library books/groceries/whatever with us, we’re near dead when we get here. Again I say, thank everything holy that I had my Keens before I got too broke to buy my Keens.
Anyone reading this have any experience with the Terra Plana Barefoot shoes? They’re too expensive for me to not be at least reasonably sure they’re going to work out fine in the long run, so I’m sort of nervous. I feel pretty safe with Keens, but those Barefoot shoes… hm.
I love how he starts off with “as I was saying,” complaining he’d only had 18 minutes the time before, heh. I just really like what Robinson has to say about linear education and how it isn’t the best, or only, way to educate people. That, in fact, education today kills creativity and passion. The way he talks about learning and education is exciting.
