Comments | jobiska: 'cause she made me

jobiska

'cause she made me

Jun 12, 2005 20:30

Sarasusa tagged me.

( some kinda meme )

Comments 6

jobiska June 13 2005, 01:22:43 UTC

I don't know what that "span" thing means. Not up to fixing it.

sarasusa June 13 2005, 01:31:15 UTC

Can't believe *I* forgot things like the Friends hymnals and Rise Up Singing...let alone beloved picture books...and All of a Kind Family too. I also love my cookbooks, maybe especially my More with Less ones from Mennonite Central Committee with all the sayings and anecdotes.

So what'd you think of The Emperor's Winding Sheet? And did you ever read JPW's Fireweed?

jobiska June 13 2005, 12:10:12 UTC

1) Sad. Depressing. Nothing happy happens ever. Noble things happen, sure. It's kind of like the LOTR books in that regard.
Also, confusing. She never ONCE mentions a date to set everything in context for me. No maps in front, nuttin'.

But at least it was about a time/setting I'd never read about before.

2) No.

stafferchick December 10 2005, 23:57:13 UTC

this is in regards to your last post in Quakers... for some reason I've been hesitating, and found for that some reason, I don't have the strength to post it there... but still felt the need to share my feelings ( ... )

jobiska December 12 2005, 15:53:11 UTC

Thank you so much for writing ( ... )

babbling on... jobiska December 12 2005, 15:54:19 UTC

...And finally, for some children the Friends schools are not just a chance at a "unique" or "exceptional" education or a slightly or even tremendously better option than their local public school...for some children, including my own, it is practically their only chance at any kind of education. Due to his unique learning needs, my child's psyche would have been irreparably damaged by the Philadelphia public school system or probably even by a suburban system had we uprooted our whole lives and moved out there. Home schooling would have been barely doable but would have been very inadequate since what my son most needs, and what I can't provide, is social skills. Furthermore, although I love sharing knowledge and exploring various avenues with him and do it plenty, me having to live up to Pennsylvania's rules for homeschooling would have set me up in an adversarial relationship with him from time to time--"you must finish this paper" and so forth--which is not conducive to either learning or to a good parent-child relationship. I ( ... )