Pam Tellew

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>I used to worry strongly about what would happen if I died, when my kids were
>eight and ten and unschooled. I was very fearful of leaving the in the
>lurch partway through the project. But as each has turned 14, give
>or take a
>year, the whole worry flowed out of me regarding that child. Each of them
>blossomed HUGELY right after the rough early puberty, and I think that right
>at this moment any of them would make it fine without parents. I wouldn't
>think the same of the schooled teens I know around me, who are suspicious and
>resentful of adults, who avoid eye contact and have learned to just say what
>they have to say to get adults to ignore them too.
>
>My kids are, by contrast, direct and cheery, honest and responsible.
>
>Often I'll look at them through the lens of something I'm reading about or
>thinking, or a period movie I've watched. Could the boys be sailors or
>soldiers in they were in another place and time? Easily. They would be
>among
>the best, if they had good reason to go and do those things. Either of
>them,
>right now, would make good parents. Holly's still a little young, at
>13, but
>there are times in which she'd've been in the early stages of arranged
>marriages, and could she do that? Yes. She's physically young, but she's
>emotionally and mentally more aware of social issues and human factors
>than many
>adults, and she's not thinking maybe she understands it, she knows she has
>some
>clear understandings.
>
>She knows.
>
>That feeling of fakery and fraud that people have talked about for the past
>few decades seems absent in these kids. What they don't know doesn't scare
>them, and what they do know is solid.
>
>Sandra
> >>>>


Wow, Sandra, in the decade I've been reading your words, these are up
there on the list of those I'll remember. I love getting these reassurances!

Pam

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In a message dated 7/6/05 12:54:08 PM, pamtellew@... writes:


> Wow, Sandra, in the decade I've been reading  your words, these are up
> there on the list of those I'll remember.   I love getting these
> reassurances!
>

Thanks! Maybe I'll take the typos out and put it on the teens page at my
site <g>.

Sandra


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Elizabeth Hill

**I liked the accidental discoveries of things next to what I was
looking for.**

I found a new way to make accidental discoveries. We can make online
requests to reserve library books, and they are set out for us on
special shelves, alphabetized by the name of the library patron who
requested them. The people next to me in the alphabet often have cool
things, leading me to moan "why didn't I request that?". But I get good
ideas for future request. Of course, what I run across here tends to be
stuff that's popular, not stuff that's obscure and untouched. A
different charm.

Betsy

k johnson

And the cards were often tannish, either manila card stock or aging to brown.
They matched the furniture, in the older days.

I liked them, though. I liked the accidental discoveries of things next to
what I was looking for.

Sandra




What about the smell of the cards? I remember the smell.

Katy



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