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Hi Carol --

My husband is out of town this weekend, and the running joke that we have
about his trips is that when he is gone, I do something "spontaneous".
(That'll teach him to leave!) Once we got a new dog. Once I painted my
daughter's room dark blue. (Her request.) Once I raked up all the leaves in
our huge wooded back yard. (Where was my imagination that time?)

This trip (a "fun" ice-climbing trip in New Hampshire for him), I am busy
papering the dining room with favorite quotes. Mostly unschooling stuff.
There is glue involved. On the walls. Margaret Mead ("My grandmother wanted
me to have an education so she kept me out of school",etc.); H. L. Mencken;
Einstein ("The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift.",etc).; Dan Quayle ("We're going to have the
best-educated American people in the world." Snort.); John Holt (of course);
Plato; Jack Handy (of Saturday Night Live "Deep Thoughts": "Instead of having
'answers' on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions', and if
you got a different 'impression', so what, can't we all be brothers?"); and
now, with your permission, I can paste your Boredom poem in our subversive,
inspirational, dining room. Your poem was beautiful, and the great thing
about my dining room is now it FILLED with Truth. Please? You'd be in good
company. (Well, mostly.)

Mark's gonna love this.

Laura (Parrish)

Mac and Carol Brown

Wow, Laura - I'm not sure my efforts should up there on the wall with the words
of Mead, Einstein, Holt, Plato, etc, but perhaps you could put me somewhere near
Dan Quale and any "Deep Thoughts" quotes! (I just love that book!).

Anyway, I'd be honoured to have a place on your wall :-)

I love the idea of such a wall - can I steal your idea, please?

Quite a few years ago, a family I knew were building a new house. It was a very
elegant, fashionable, keeping-one-step-ahead-of-the-Jones sort of house. But
before they got around to painting / wallpapering the living room, one of their
small kids had a birthday party, and as a fun activity, the kids all got to paint
pictures on the walls. Well, they are both grown and gone to university now, so I
guess they may have painted the wall by now, but for years the kids paintings
remained, and were added to by their own kids and many visitors (adults as well
as children), for whom the delight of being 'allowed' to draw on the walls was
irresistable!

It was a wonderful wall, and a great reminder to me that you can't catagorize
people - This woman was the last I would have thought of as likely to do a thing
like this :-)

Carol