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In a message dated 1/6/03 2:28:39 AM Central Standard Time,
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<< HeHeHe. That was me...I hope that you don't mind Ren. >>

Not at all...thanks for reminding me Stephanie!
I think most everyone here has had to go through some big paradigm shifts to
get to wherever they're at today, I mean heck, even Sandra talked a relative
into not homeschooling at one time!
It's neat to read old stuff you've written and witness the growth.
I got out an old journal the other day and in it I was writing a note to
Trevor when he was about three. Mark and I were going on a mountain climb
that I had a not-so-good feeling about and I was stating our wishes about who
would raise him and so on. Part of it was telling Trevor to have love for God
and DO GOOD IN SCHOOL!!! Ack.
I really cringed when I read it.
But it's great to know how very much people do change for the better...:)
And I believe I had a funny feeling about that climb for a reason.
We got near the top and actually turned around, not attaining the peak.
One year later, when Jared was exactly one week old, Mark did the climb
again. He almost died that day, fell off the peak and barely managed to self
arrest after a long fall. There were some large rocks that feel down after
that, and one of them hit him on the ankle pretty hard. If it weren't for the
large, plastic climbing boots it would have been pulverized.
As it was, rescue patrol had to come get him down. We met him at the hospital
in the wee hours of the morning.........
So maybe my intuition wasn't so far off?

Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com

Tia Leschke

> And I believe I had a funny feeling about that climb for a reason.
> We got near the top and actually turned around, not attaining the peak.
> One year later, when Jared was exactly one week old, Mark did the climb
> again. He almost died that day, fell off the peak and barely managed to
self
> arrest after a long fall. There were some large rocks that feel down after
> that, and one of them hit him on the ankle pretty hard. If it weren't for
the
> large, plastic climbing boots it would have been pulverized.
> As it was, rescue patrol had to come get him down. We met him at the
hospital
> in the wee hours of the morning.........
> So maybe my intuition wasn't so far off?

Spooky!
My dad and a friend and I were climbing Cathedral Peak in Yosemite years
ago. My friend and I were too scared to do the last, very exposed bit, so
my dad went on to the top alone. Once we were down off the mountain and on
the trail back to the parking lot, a man came running down. He'd seen an
accident on the far side, the hard side. A young man was climbing with his
12 year old brother. He fell, almost pulling the brother down with him. He
landed on a ledge and the poor kid was sitting there with horrible rope
burns, not know whether his brother was alive, and not knowing how he would
get down.
My dad ran on ahead to alert the rangers to get a rescue operation going.
He wanted to help more, but they said he'd done enough climbing that day.
Later we heard that the man died in the helicopter on the way to the
hospital.
Tia

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In a message dated 1/7/03 8:37:00 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< Hey, I would love to have people like John Holt, Mary Griffith, and you
over to my house and listen firsthand about all their unschooling
experiences over a cup of java. I just don't see it happening. >>

Nope, I don't see it happening either, since Holt died quite some time
ago...:)
But you've got real live unschoolers right here!!

Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com

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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:10:16 EST starsuncloud@... writes:
> But you've got real live unschoolers right here!!

yes, I realize that now, but it was difficult during my lurk mode to see
the forest through the trees, per se.
This list is more than a little intimidating when reading through the
posts of the many people who make unschooling seem so effortless and
natural, and those who antagonize for what seems the sake of
antagonizing. It makes it difficult for someone with absolutely no
experience, who in fact grew up in a very different way, to just jump
right in. What a lot of the posters have really done for me though, is
force me into answering a lot of my own questions. And that I appreciate.

Wende

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