SCHOLA: Finally, A Happy New Year

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Finally, A Happy New Year

I've easily put on at least ten pounds in the past two weeks, cramming food down my gullet in a sometimes successful attempt to suppress all those dark holiday-inspired thoughts and feelings and not say something regrettable to any number of people.

But now? Bliss.

I am back in my own house, on the coast opposite to one with all the conflicts and ugliness, sleeping comfortably and peacefully in my own bed, surrounded by shelves and shelves of my beloved books, and hooked to the internet with a high speed, wireless connection. I have been busily ordering more books in anticipation of my return trip to Australia and the resuming of our home education efforts (although I have not heard any word yet from the Queensland's powers-that-be as to whether or not we have been officially approved to continue...) What more could anyone want? Oh, yeah, three-fourths of my charges are sleeping over a friend's house tonight.

Fat and happy I am. Cheers!

2 comments:

Portable Graffiti said...: Cheers! Happy New Year. I have 2 Coronitas and 5 Land Sharks in the fridge waiting for you.

Bon fire some night?; January 4, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Becky said...: Happy New Year, L! Enjoy the time at home :); January 5, 2008 at 7:46 PM

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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.