Posted by femlite on November 11, 2003, at 11:27:07
In reply to Re: Unicorns Yet » femlite, posted by EscherDementian on November 11, 2003, at 8:55:03
Greetings EscherDementia,
I wish we could do this in color as in an email. It makes the diologue much easier to follow.> How perfect! You and your hubby were very instinctive. And a love of poetry...
> Ooops, judgement on my part. ;-)NO NEED TO WORRY
Self made words are so creatively evolutionary- and isn't that the spirit in children? What are some of her self made words? i really enjoy smw...
> Hey SIENNA do you, too?YOU TEACH MONTESSORI? SHE IS ONE OF MY EDUCATIONAL HEROS. THAT IS SO GREAT
WHEN I STUDIED El Ed, I wrote MANY of MY papers ABOUT HER WORK.> The first year i began teaching (Montessori) i started collecting children's SMWs and illustrating them- when i could, with the child's own illustration or description. The first two are:
> "Flutterby" (butterfly) SHE SAID THIS
> "Pitterpatter" (caterpillar)
> ~don't they make sense !?
> "The gold-and-grey bridge" always made better sense than the Golden Gate Bridge, to me, too!
> Nevermind "Git-Downald's"... (McDonald's)
IM GOING TO CAP IT ALL, DONT THINK IM YELLING AT YOU OKAY? ITS JUST EASIER TO FOLLOWI LOVE CHILDRENS WORDS. WE READ "BURT DOW, DEEP WATER MAN" TO HER A MILLION TIMES (IT SEEMED). WONDERFUL CHILDREN'S AUTHOR, ROBERT McCLOUSKEY. SUCH FUN WORDS. SLISH-KA-SLOSH, MAKE-AND-BREAK ENGINE....
ONE OF THE SMW I LOVED WAS "ELEEPHANTE" FOR ELEPHANT. IT SEEMED A LOGICAL PHONETIC EXPRESSION TO ME.
WHEN SHE WOULD SEE A TRACTOR IN THE FIELD SHE CALLED THEM "SEAT TILLERS"
AND I COULD NEVER GET HER TO CALL HER PIGGY BANK AS SUCH, SHE MORE LOGICALLY CALLED IT HER PENNY BEAR, FOR THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, A BEAR.I MISS THOSE DAYS. BUT SINCE WE'VE KEPT HER HOME ALL THESE YEARS, SHE SEEMS TO HAVE RETAINED THAT LITTLE SPARK OF SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH A CHILDS EYES. SHE WANTS TO BE A WRITER IN FACT!
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> >At least there are problem solving skills and great girl heroes involved.
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> *sigh* there's a blindness of mine: it never occurs to me to differentiate girl/boy or male/female until someone mentions it. Everything is always so individualized in unique context to me...to a fault sometimes. Glad you see things that way for her... Yes, i quite agree, nurtures Intelligence better than Barbie heroism (and even Lisa Simpson's a _cartoon_).BARBIES ARE BANNED FROM THIS HOUSE :-0
(THE GRANDMAS WERE SCANDALIZED!)
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> > I do enjoy "The Little Prince" immensely, but the end of course seems so sad.
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> Oh, no! He becomes a 'pilot'! It's a continuuance to The Pilot himself... look at the last illustration that S-Exupery draws~ the Star! and before that, the Little Prince's heart is the one thing facing that star. ("The child is the seed of the adult". -M.Montessori)
> Oh, femlite~ sad? no. nostalgic? heartbreakingly.I PROMISE TO GO BACK AND READ THAT ENDING AND IF IT IS AS YOU SAY (AND IM SURE IT IS) THAT IS A LOVELY IMAGE TO END WITH. OF COURSE ITS HIS CHILDS EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD THAT MAKES THE BOOK SO SPECIAL, ISNT IT?
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> > Oh well, havent you heard? That last one yelled at me on the phone that I was a "DRUG SEEKER".
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> My own way around that would be to print out the info that i'm basing my consideration on, and giving it to my pdoc with a "What do you think?" Or "This is something i'd like us to look at". But before that, checking my own integrity in my intention, all the way to overall end-goal for myself.YOUR ADVICE IS SOUND AN APPRECIATED. IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO EXAMINE ONES TRUE FEELINGS (A LIFE UNEXAMINED...)
AND THERE IS NO DOUBT A GREAT DEAL OF CYNICISM IN MY VIEW AND PERHAPS MY BEARING. BUT (YOU KNEW THAT WAS COMING ;-) SO FAR IT HAS BEEN RELATIVELY JUSTAFIABLE. I LOVE THE EAST AND INDIANS PER SE, BUT IM NOT SURE THEY UNDERSTAND AMERICANS. (FORGIVE ME ALL YOU WHO ARE EAST INDIAN)
THIS TIME I DID IT MY WAY (OR VERY MUCH TRIED)
AT MY FIRST VISIT I TOLD HIM I WAS, AT THAT TIME, UNINTERESTED IN HIS DX. THAT THE PURPOSE OF MY VISIT WAS TO ASSESS IF WE COULD WORK TOGEATHER. HE TOOK IT IN VERY GOOD HUMOR (A SENSE OF HUMOR IS ALWAYS A GOOD SIGN, DONT YOU THINK?)I HAVE BEEN PLEADING MY CASE ON THE MED BOARD DURING YOUR ABSENCE. PB HAS MADE AN EDUCATED MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER OF ME AND OF US ALL. ALL OF THE PDOCS IVE BEEN TO IN THE RECENT PAST HAVE SEEMED THREATENED BY WORKING WITH A PATIENT WHO KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DOPAMINE AND NOREPINEPHRINE...) AH WELL..
HOPEFULLY THAT IS IN THE PAST. AND AS YOU SAY, A RESPECTFUL AND OPTIMISTIC APPROACH WILL TAKE ONE MUCH FURTHER.
MY GP LAUGHED WHEN I TOLD HIM OF THE ACCUSATION I RECIEVED OF SEEKING DRUGS. HE KNOWS ME PRETTY WELL AND HIS CONFIDENCE WAS REASURING.
ENOUGH OF MY WOEFULL TALE.
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> > I had in mind to make them all dog catchters. But the poor doggies...
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> But didn't you dislike being objectified yourself?WELL SAID! MY OBJECTIFICATION IS OF COURSE THE REASON I SEEK TREATMENT. HOPEFULLY THE DOCTOR WILL GRANT ME MY PSYCHOTIC DUE, SINCE THAT IS WHY IM THERE. BUT OF COURSE THEY ARE HUMAN.
HAVING BEEN CURSED WITH BAD DOCTOR KARMA (I JEST, BUT ONLY SLIGHTLY) I REALLY DO FEEL THAT GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS (SEARCHING, AND FAILING, GETTING UP AND SEARCHING AND FAILING, AND GETTING UP AGAIN..) IS SOMEHOW PART OF THE HEALING PROCESS FOR ME. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
> i know you mean that as a joke, but be careful-
> My way (as much as i can wrangle) is to notice when i dislike a way i'm treated and exile that from MY world by not doing it. to anyone. for any reason. period. zap. booted from the universe i am creating. Then i try out the treatment i would have preferred, when i come across the person(s)
> that i am mistreating in the same way. Sometimes i have to look for it. And usually i have to 'fine-tune' my attempt(s). i know i've been successful when the next time 'it happens to me' i interpret it completely differently, and the original offense just doesn't exist anymore. zap. gone. evolved. Funny, but 'compassionate humour' about our human condition often replaces it.
WHEN IT COMES TO DOCTORS, THIS IS STILL QUITE A WRANGLE FOR ME. AND I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU IRRESPECTIVE OF THAT ONE SMALL PART OF MY PSYCHE :)
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> Oh, gads, femlite, i don't mean to be waxing preacher-ish... i don't like being given perscriptions for religion and having my own search for what's right for me be denied, either.
NO OFFENCE TAKEN. I ONLY WISH TO BE CONSIDERED AS A WHOLE, LIKE US ALL. AND NOT PUT IN SOME MEDIA MADE BOX/STIGMA
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> sounds Russian Orthodox?
IM IMPRESSED. NOT MANY AMERICANS ARE AWARE OF THE EASTERN CHURCH.
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> > > Ever read "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav ??
> No, is it interesting?
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> Check it out!
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> > Do you have a good and cooperative doctor?
> > I think really in end, we should be allowed to order however we want to feel, since in fact, that seems to be what they are selling.
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> Hmmm, i see it differently.FORGIVE ME, MY CYNICISM IS SHOWING
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> > In the pslams David says the hills skipped like unicorns.
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> "the hills skipped like unicorns"? Oh, forgive me, femlite, it IS rubber mallet to the forehead time for me, here... the visuals i just imagined! LOL -and also remembering my cousin imitating Julie Andrews (with two oranges stuck down her leotard) singing "My Hills Are Alive~~ With The Sound Of Muuuusic"!! LOL Or maybe it was me, my cousin was imitating... whatever, we were children, and it was SOooo funny!
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> > I hope we shall see them again someday.
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> (oh, not my cousin's oranges, Unicorns, you mean...) They're still here, just in different form.
YES SILLY, :) THE UNICORNSLOL. DID YOU REALLY ACT SMALL PLAYS. I LOVE THOSE PARTS OF "LITTLE WOMEN" WHEN THE SISTERS ACTED OUT JOES' PLAYS. MY DAUGHTERS ALWAYS SEEM TO BE COOKING UP ONE SKIT OR ANOTHER.
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> >Until then I think we'll have to settle for Shadowfax.
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> i'd settle for Aragorn...
> Okay, no, not true. Now i know i'd best leave with the Elves.IN THIS HOUSE, HORSES REIGN SUPREME, HORNS OR NOT.
THE BUDDING AUTHOR IS ALSO A HORSEY GIRL. I REALLY ENJOY WATCHING HER RIDE. SHE SITS A HORSE SO BEAUTIFULLY. OURS AND HER NEXT FAVORITE CREATURES, ARE THOSE BEAUTIFUL ELVES.
YOU ARE SUCH A POET, ESCHER. DO YOU WRITE? PRIVATELY OR PROFESSIONALY?MY, HOW MUCH WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT EACH OTHER IN JUST THREE LETTERS. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT IS AROUND THE NEXT CORNER.
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> > Amor vincit omnia
> > Femlite
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> Nite-Nite,(6:37am here)
> Escher
> Who wanted to call attention to 'judgement' and now notices all of her own ;)FORGIVE THE CLICHE, BUT SUCH AN ERRROR WE SHARE..
OFTEN FAILING BUT SINCERELY STRIVING TO BE, "SUAVITER IN MODO FORTTITER IN RE` " GENTLE IN MANNER, BUT STRONG IN DEED
femlite
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