SCHOLA: The Almighty has spoken.

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

The Almighty has spoken.

God is throwing us a curve ball.

He has been apparently speaking to our soon-to-be new island neighbor, and has revealed His plan to him. Mr. Eccentric intends to eventually purchase not just our contiguous piece of island property, but the entire island. He believes it will ultimately cost about one billion dollars and take approximately twenty years. His plan is to build Paradise.

Now, if I were God, I'd be a little insulted that someone thought my work needed any improvement, but, hey, maybe that's why I'm not Creator of the Universe.

Mr. Eccentric still hasn't closed the deal with our neighbor, it's been delayed twice so far, so we're not holding our breath, but the other day when Jorge met with him, he was open to Jorge's suggestion of a land swap. Jorge indicated we would like to have a house on Boca Grande in order to maintain the quality of life we have struggled to achieve for our girls. He told Jorge to pick one out and fax him the details.

Never a dull moment around here, that's for sure.

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SCHOLA 101

schol' a: 1) An intermission of work, leisure for learning, learned conversation, debate, disputation, lecture, dissertation. 2) A meeting place for teachers and pupils, place for instruction, place of learning, school. 3) The disciples of a teacher, body of followers, school, sect. 4) An acronym for my tortuous blog title "Secular Classical Homeschoolers' Odyssean Learning Adventure." 5) How my Boston cousins pronounce "scholar." 6) Someone who studies at 10 o'clock for a dilla or a dolla.

These are the blatherings of an introverted, autodidactic, champion of The Enlightenment raising three daughters. At one time or another we have homeschooled, public-schooled, Catholic-schooled, cyber-schooled, unschooled, and even threatened boarding school. We have been inspired variously by The Well-Trained Mind, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and Climbing Parnassus, tempered by the writings and wisdom of Charlotte Mason, John Holt, Benjamin Franklin and Michel de Montaigne.

I try not to get wrapped up in labels, but we are secular and we are classical-ish.

We travel. A lot. Sometimes to the other side of the state and sometimes to the other side of the planet. Join us on our journey as we search for our home, navigate the waters of self-education, lounge with the lotus-eaters, and bash a Cyclops or two.