carnationsgalore

My kids and I would like to know about the picture on the home page.
It looks like a leaf that looks like a brain (says the kids). Is there
a story behind the pic?

Beth M.

Sandra Dodd

-=-My kids and I would like to know about the picture on the home
page. -=-

I hadn't thought about it looking like a brain. I just liked the
shape of it.

It's from the fruitless mulberry by my back door. That leaf grew
funny, and fell on the hot tub. I stuck it in the scanner with a
piece of colored paper over it. That's the whole story.

Sandra

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Melissa Dietrick

>
> It's from the fruitless mulberry by my back door. That leaf grew
> funny, and fell on the hot tub. I stuck it in the scanner with a
> piece of colored paper over it. That's the whole story.


I just *knew* it was a mulberry leaf! my kids kept saying Nah...its
shaped too wierd, and I kept saying, she must have liked its deformity!

we have a mulberry infront of our house...it makes thumb sized berries
though. (happily for us!)

melissa
in italy
mamma of 7
ucia 21yr, lidia 17yr, matteo 14yr, raffaele 10yr,
elena shanti 8yr, giacomo leo 5yr and gioele 2.75y

"There is a Place beyond Rightness and Wrongness -- I'll meet you there."

Rumi

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www.nontogliermiilsorriso.org

Sandra Dodd

-=-I just *knew* it was a mulberry leaf! my kids kept saying Nah...its
shaped too wierd, and I kept saying, she must have liked its
deformity!-=-



You were right!

And I also guess I can never think of any image to represent
unschooing, so I just like trees and tree parts. I like the idea
that each tree becomes itself from a little seed, and although people
can help and encourage it and water it and keep it safe, or they can
damage it or kill it, they can't make one kind of tree become a
different kind of tree.



Sandra

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Rod Thomas

We love to eat mulberries, and we used the leaves to raise our silk worms
one year.

That's what they eat.



kathy in FL



-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Melissa Dietrick
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 1:18 PM
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Re: The picture on the home page?




>
> It's from the fruitless mulberry by my back door. That leaf grew
> funny, and fell on the hot tub. I stuck it in the scanner with a
> piece of colored paper over it. That's the whole story.

I just *knew* it was a mulberry leaf! my kids kept saying Nah...its
shaped too wierd, and I kept saying, she must have liked its deformity!

we have a mulberry infront of our house...it makes thumb sized berries
though. (happily for us!)

melissa
in italy
mamma of 7
ucia 21yr, lidia 17yr, matteo 14yr, raffaele 10yr,
elena shanti 8yr, giacomo leo 5yr and gioele 2.75y

"There is a Place beyond Rightness and Wrongness -- I'll meet you there."

Rumi

http://www.larimelo <http://www.larimeloom.etsy.com> om.etsy.com
http://www.flauto <http://www.flauto.tk> tk
http://www.attachme <http://www.attachmentparenting.eu> ntparenting.eu
www.nontogliermiilsorriso.org





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Bob Collier

--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
>
> -=-My kids and I would like to know about the picture on the home
> page. -=-
>
> I hadn't thought about it looking like a brain. I just liked the
> shape of it.
>
> It's from the fruitless mulberry by my back door. That leaf grew
> funny, and fell on the hot tub. I stuck it in the scanner with a
> piece of colored paper over it. That's the whole story.
>
> Sandra
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>


LOL

I'd always assumed you'd deliberately chosen that particular leaf
because it looks like a brain. There you go. :-)

Bob

Sandra Dodd

-=-I'd always assumed you'd deliberately chosen that particular leaf
because it looks like a brain. There you go. :-)-=-



When we got the option to have a picture, I thought maybe there would
be some good representation of unschooling, but pictures of people
sometimes say too much, more than they intend to, and one picture
can't represent the range of life and thought and activity and
stillness and emotion.

When that leaf fell I just liked the shape of it but I didn't think
"brain." I kinda wondered what caused it to curl. When I was a kid
we bought a house with an apple orchard, and if an apple gets pecked
or damaged when it's small, it will grow oddly. Those never show up
in the store, but the healthy side is perfectly edible. I always
thought those were interesting. But I didn't consciously associate
the leave with that either, until now.

When I scanned it, I wasn't really thinking of this list either.
Just was playing with my scanner, which I have done other times.

http://sandradodd.com/scannerart

And it made a very clean and square picture that would look good
small too, so I plugged it in to Always Learning, thinking maybe I'd
think of something better someday, and there it sat silently until
this week.



Sandra

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