This Week

CheckIn and RamblePage are cool, but too big to read all at once. Here's a place to talk all you want about stuff that doesn't belong everywhere else, with the understanding that it will be deleted after a week. Scared? Me too. I feel funny writing something that's meant to be destroyed.

Please put a date less than two weeks in the future at the top of your blurb, and delete anything with a date before today's. If you just can't stand to see something go, save it to your hard drive or put it on another wiki page, but don't let it stay here!

April 12

I am curiously hesitant to butt into what I see as a beautiful and clearly close-knit community, but I see no other way to make a place for myself here except to take the plunge. So, here I am, posting on various pages, wondering if I'll get up the courage to actually talk about myself, wondering if anyone here has time for another unschooling acquantance. I read pages here and see myself mirrored in all your thoughtspeople's worries, jokes, ideas. I'm in the midst of an argument with my grandfather, through e-mail, about unschoolingspecifically, the term. What is it with people who pick on little things like the WORD? Who CARES about the term? I like the word (unschool), but I would take another, just as long as it held the same connotations for me. Grandpa just hates that I'm not in school and that I speak my mind. Anyone else have relatives who give you grief for just living your life?

Elizabeth

• my grandma is deffinatly not into unschooling. so around her i don't call it unschooling. and do not feel like you are intruding on our communtiy. we are very close knit. but we adore aquiring new members and generally suck them in (corrupt them. hehe.) quite quickly. i'd love to hear more about you. e-mail me eh? franny at nbtsc dot org. welcome to the wonderful world of wiki! -franny

April 10^th deleate me

Mair wandered into my life. or rather she danced. Univeited she carved a space in my soul. I love and respect her and wish her wings to fly. yay for radical lesbian grandmothers of 5. May i one day learn to take stage ques as delicatly as you do... -Dawn

here I am. I've noticed something very important, old pocket watches are pretty on the inside, and I meen, really pretty, decrotive ingravings, polished parts, saphire barrings, all this care, and pride that has been taken in makeing it, puting it together, and caring for it, all of this on the inside, why do this? why polish, and ingrave the inside, the part that is not going to be seen? what happend to the world? is't anyone proud of what they do any more? if we mass produce enough of everything, and make it cheap enough, we won't have to care, because when the world stops working, we can just go to wal-mart, and get a new one.

i wonder sometimes. what is so scary about an empty notebook? empty page? i've been scared to write. This Week i will write and be free to write junk. it's on this page. now i have to.

-franny