Turn, Turn, Turn
A time to build up,
A time to break down,
A time to dance, A time to mourn,
A time to cast stones,
A time to gather stones together.
To everything, Turn, turn, turn,
There is a season,
Turn, turn, turn,
And a time to every purpose
Under heaven.
---Pete Seeger
Adapted from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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Category Archives: Field Trips
The Field Trip Not Taken
Today we’re not going on a field trip. We won’t be touring Appomattox Court House, where General Lee surrendered and America’s Civil War ended. We won’t be with our friends from our homeschool co-op. We won’t be punctuating our study … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary Grades, Family Life, Field Trips, Guitar, High School, History, Homeschooling Boys, Music, Road Schooling, South River Valley, This Day, Uncategorized, Virginia
Tagged discernment, doing too much, down-time homeschooling, extracurricular activities, historical field trips, homeschool co-ops, homeschooling and balance, homeschooling teens, learning history through field trips, musical homeschooler, musical inspiration, opting out, over-scheduled homeschooling, taking a day off, the homeschooling life, the road not taken, too busy homeschooler, too many activities
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Musikia: Nick’s Paris Debut
Our visit to Europe included sightseeing, of course. Some of it was personal, such as visiting my father-in-law’s World War II battle field and other WWII historic sights, which I wrote about here. Some of it was iconic, like our … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trips, Guitar, Music, Uncategorized
Tagged Americans in Paris, guitar store in Paris, Musikia
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Vianden Castle: In which a Faulconer meets a falconer
Our ultimate field trip to Europe included Nick’s one request — to visit a real castle. Since the organizing factor of the trip was to visit his grandfather’s World War II battlefield straddling Luxembourg and Wallendorf, Germany (which I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in A Writer's Life, Buildings, Field Trips, Historical Fiction, History, Ultimate Field Trip
Tagged European castles, European field trip, falconry, living in a fairy tale, Luxembourg, Magic Cabin toys, Medieval history, Our River, Vianden, Vianden Castle, Waldorf-inspired homeschooling
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To Soccer Fields through Cotton Fields
Since I grew up in the Shenandoah Valley, harvest conjures images of heavily laden trees and wooden boxes of apples, as well as neatly mown hayfields and barns stacked full of bales of timothy, orchardgrass, and alfalfa. The wooden apple … Continue reading
