SCHOLA: Poetry Friday II (Has it really been a week already?)

Friday, April 20, 2007

Poetry Friday II (Has it really been a week already?)

Situation?
Accommodation
Remediation

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Okay, here's the story.

Without being directly admonished for any particular behavior, our landlady has indicated displeasure with us several times. We found another rental and were preparing to move, but when we gave our notice, phrased as needing more room so as to not burn any property-buying bridges, she assured us she would love for us to stay. For as long as we want. She insisted there were no problems, even with the dog, and told us if she did have any problems that she would be sure to let us know. So she's not intentionally making life miserable for us, she's just gets grouchy sometimes.

With Jorge preparing to leave the country for an extended period, the stress of moving at the last minute was more than I could take. I would rather put up with crabbiness for several months than pack up and shuffle all our belongings across town. Fortunately she made staying put feasible.

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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.