Knowing What You Want

August 2, 2010

I’m reading a lot right now about the necessity to define a clear goal, desire or purpose. If you don’t know what you want, it’s a lot harder to get it.
We have a used bookstore in our town that is our favorite. We enjoy taking books in to trade and picking out new ones.
The last [...]

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Protected: Word Stealers

August 2, 2010

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A Week of Wonder Part 7 – Imagination

July 31, 2010

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be know and understand.”

- Albert Einstein

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
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A Week of Wonder Part 6 – Excuses

July 30, 2010

I know there are some of you reading this series of post about wonder and saying, “But you don’t know my life Mandy, my life has nothing wondrous about it:”
I work two jobs.
I don’t have a job.
I am a stay-at-home-mom.
I can’t have kids, and I want them desperately.
I hate my job.
My spouse is a kill-joy.
My [...]

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Protected: 1st Ever Friday Scavenger Hunt!

July 30, 2010

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A Week of Wonder Part 5 – Mystery

July 29, 2010

Artists need mystery. And since I see all humanity as artists or creatives, I could rephrase that to say, humanity needs mystery. But we try to convince ourselves we don’t. We try to live like we can do without it. We try to pretend like nothing surprises us.
We think, especially as adults, that we should [...]

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Protected: Superhero

July 29, 2010

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A Week of Wonder Part 4 – Questions

July 28, 2010

Preschool children, on average, ask their parents about 100 questions a day. Why, why, why—sometimes parents just wish it’d stop. Tragically, it does stop. By middle school they’ve pretty much stopped asking. It’s no coincidence that this same time is when student motivation and engagement plummet. They didn’t stop asking questions because they lost interest: [...]

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A Week of Wonder Part 3 – Wonder Aficionado

July 27, 2010

I don’t how many times I have watched Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. Apparently plenty because my kids now tell me the movie is boring, while I, still can’t seem to get enough of it. The last time I watched it, a short little scene jumped out at me that I had never taken much notice [...]

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A Week of Wonder Part 2 – Awakened to Wonder

July 26, 2010

He was awake. I had heard him talking on and off behind his closed door, but the babbling started to intrigue me when it became interspersed with squeals of laughter and gasps of awe. “What is he doing?” I wondered.
I assumed his brother must be playing with him, since they shared a room, but why [...]

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