SCHOLA: For Donna

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

For Donna

over at Quiet Life

(2003) You win some...

Taken out on our beach at sunset.

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(2004) You lose some...

The idea was to create a pyramid, resembling a Christmas tree, of grandchildren, with the star, Grandchild #7, THE BOY, on top. Then the pile became too unstable and THE BOY would not keep his star hat on and Granddaughter #6 would not stop sobbing... Not even Photoshop could save this shoot. So much for the clever set up.

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Time to get moving on the Christmas 2005 photo, eh?

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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.