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I hadn't thought of this song for years. It was a favorite of a high school
friend, Jon Tsosie, who had a CF Martin guitar when we were just fifteen. I
think it's one of the best pieces of poetry Paul Simon every wrote. I told
Holly "This is a pretty song. It's very poetic," and she said "What's
poetic?" so I used the second verse as an example and she got it. (Check
that off the vocabulary and literary checklist, because she REALLY got it.)

As I listened with Holly I heard it as not the romantic youthful love song it
was to me when I was a teenager, but as the connectedness between any people
who really care about one another, parent and child included. And of how
having a child changes the things we once held as true.

So maybe this should go on the list of songs to inspire unschoolers too. Not
quite an anthem, but maybe a lullaby.


Kathy's Song

I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls.

And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England where my heart lies.

My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're asleep
And kiss you when you start your day.

And as a song I was writing is left undone
I don't know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can't believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme.

And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.

And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I.

Jocelyn Vilter

I can't ever listen to this song without tearing up. Just the opening
chords do it to me.

Jocelyn

> From: SandraDodd@...
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:40:22 EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Smell of rain, and a love song
>
> I hadn't thought of this song for years. It was a favorite of a high school
> friend, Jon Tsosie, who had a CF Martin guitar when we were just fifteen. I
> think it's one of the best pieces of poetry Paul Simon every wrote. I told
> Holly "This is a pretty song. It's very poetic," and she said "What's
> poetic?" so I used the second verse as an example and she got it. (Check
> that off the vocabulary and literary checklist, because she REALLY got it.)
>
> As I listened with Holly I heard it as not the romantic youthful love song it
> was to me when I was a teenager, but as the connectedness between any people
> who really care about one another, parent and child included. And of how
> having a child changes the things we once held as true.
>
> So maybe this should go on the list of songs to inspire unschoolers too. Not
> quite an anthem, but maybe a lullaby.
>
>
> Kathy's Song
>
> I hear the drizzle of the rain
> Like a memory it falls
> Soft and warm continuing
> Tapping on my roof and walls.
>
> And from the shelter of my mind
> Through the window of my eyes
> I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
> To England where my heart lies.
>
> My mind's distracted and diffused
> My thoughts are many miles away
> They lie with you when you're asleep
> And kiss you when you start your day.
>
> And as a song I was writing is left undone
> I don't know why I spend my time
> Writing songs I can't believe
> With words that tear and strain to rhyme.
>
> And so you see I have come to doubt
> All that I once held as true
> I stand alone without beliefs
> The only truth I know is you.
>
> And as I watch the drops of rain
> Weave their weary paths and die
> I know that I am like the rain
> There but for the grace of you go I.
>
>
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Alicia Knight

No, no, no... The ultimate unschool anthem will forever be Pink Floyd's
"Another Brick n the Wall Part 2"

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.


~Alicia

SandraDodd@... wrote:

>
> In a message dated 8/30/02 10:18:34 AM, ecsamhill@... writes:
>
> << **So maybe this should go on the list of songs to inspire unschoolers
> too. Not quite an anthem, but maybe a lullaby.**
>
>
> More anthem-y would be Kodachrome, by Paul Simon, which contains the
> immortal words "When I think back to all the crap I learned in high
> schoool, it's a wonder I can think at all." >>
>
> Okay! They're both in, for the future "UNSCHOOLING COLLECTION" to be
> sold
> for $19.95 late at night on local UHF stations.
>
> Sandra

Betsy

**So maybe this should go on the list of songs to inspire unschoolers
too. Not quite an anthem, but maybe a lullaby.**


More anthem-y would be Kodachrome, by Paul Simon, which contains the
immortal words "When I think back to all the crap I learned in high
schoool, it's a wonder I can think at all."

Betsy

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In a message dated 8/30/02 10:18:34 AM, ecsamhill@... writes:

<< **So maybe this should go on the list of songs to inspire unschoolers
too. Not quite an anthem, but maybe a lullaby.**


More anthem-y would be Kodachrome, by Paul Simon, which contains the
immortal words "When I think back to all the crap I learned in high
schoool, it's a wonder I can think at all." >>

Okay! They're both in, for the future "UNSCHOOLING COLLECTION" to be sold
for $19.95 late at night on local UHF stations.

Sandra

Nancy Wooton

on 8/30/02 11:20 AM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:

> Okay! They're both in, for the future "UNSCHOOLING COLLECTION" to be sold
> for $19.95 late at night on local UHF stations.

...as only an unschooler with no cable TV would put it...

<vbg thinking of those poor youngsters scratching their heads over "UHF" >

Nancy

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In a message dated 8/30/02 1:02:50 PM, ikonstitcher@... writes:

<<
...as only an unschooler with no cable TV would put it...

<vbg thinking of those poor youngsters scratching their heads over "UHF" > >>

WHAT!?? You pay $40 a month for cable tv and they're STILL selling you
CRAP!??

The promise of cable TV used to be "commercial free."
(THERE is some information from an oldtimer. <g>)

Nancy Wooton

on 8/30/02 12:27 PM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:

> WHAT!?? You pay $40 a month for cable tv and they're STILL selling you
> CRAP!??
>
> The promise of cable TV used to be "commercial free."
> (THERE is some information from an oldtimer. <g>)

But I have 100 other channels, some of them in glorious digital, to choose
from; I don't have to watch QVC, after all <g>

Besides, if we wanted any reception at all, we'd have to install a 30 ft.
antenna like our neighbor across the street!

Nancy


--
"Are you sure this is the Sci-Fi Convention? It's full of nerds!"
--Homer Simpson

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In a message dated 8/30/2002 10:41:28 PM Central Daylight Time,
ikonstitcher@... writes:

<< But I have 100 other channels, some of them in glorious digital, to choose
from; I don't have to watch QVC, after all <g> >>

When one of my sons was about 6 years old he said to me, "Mom, there's 100
channels on TV and nothing to watch!"

Joy