July 27, 2026

Category: Society & Culture

A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Beautiful Curiosity, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Developing Self, History, Imagination, Kindness, Language, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Music, Physical Development, Playing, Rhythm & Motion, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Society & Culture

Lily Sings in Her Sleep

Lily chose to be Aisling for Halloween. I am going to use this post as a starting/reference point.  Because of her choice of character, and the associated story, we have begun to explore the Middle Ages, Europe in antiquity, myth and legend, and the Irish language.  Oh, how much fun this is! The movie, “The […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Beautiful Curiosity, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Developing Self, History, Imagination, Kindness, Language, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Music, Physical Development, Playing, Rhythm & Motion, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Society & Culture

Lily Sings in Her Sleep

Lily chose to be Aisling for Halloween. I am going to use this post as a starting/reference point.  Because of her choice of character, and the associated story, we have begun to explore the Middle Ages, Europe in antiquity, myth and legend, and the Irish language.  Oh, how much fun this is! The movie, “The […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Bugz & Her Explorations, Chemistry, Culture Appreciation, Geography, Imagination, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Physical Development, Physics, Science Discoveries, Self Awareness, Social Development, Society & Culture, Thought Process & Development

Color, Color, Boom, BOOM

“THAT’S TOO LOUD”, says an annoyed and somewhat intimidated Cecily, who got to experience a fireworks show closer than she’s ever been before. Lily decided to do the evening on blades!  We went to Pueblo, to the Riverwalk for the celebration.  Fireworks and a live orchestra, playing, you guessed it, their idea of patriotic music […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Art, Artistry, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Engineering, Geography, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Responsibility, Science Discoveries, Self Awareness, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Thought Process & Development, Writing

BRAVE fille

Lily is sometimes Merida, sometimes Elinor as a bear, and today, she’s a little and nice version of Mor’du. She’s beginning to memorize the movie in French.. We ordered a How to Draw Brave Characters book, which has been in constant use since its arrival. First, she now knows what a character is… Second, she […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Imagination, Language, Language Development, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Music, Playing, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Writing

Fairy Correspondence

Lils has decided to continue her communications via email with the fairies… and she’s added Merida. I think Lily combines Merida (Brave) and her archery, brilliance, determination and fire with the fairies and their spirit and talent. Periwinkle went missing around Thanksgiving.  Fairies depart and return at will around here, and we’re still never certain […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Articles, CDE Standards Reference, Lils, Society & Culture

Rules Above Dignity

I might more accurately title this post, “My Aversion to Social Conformity”, or perhaps, “Drone Living: Resistance is Futile, Unless You Can Think For Yourself”… I digress. _________________________________________________________ I have been reading a book lately that I want to begin to dissect over the next couple of months.  I have found it articulate and eloquent, […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Literacy, Science Discoveries, Simply Nature, Society & Culture, Thought Process & Development

Spell That, Color That In, Tsunami's, Water's Energy, and Plate Tectonics

Japan, washed away in a moment of massive energy liberation due to the same.  Take a pencil, bend from both ends.  Watch… it will break.  The earth is no different… but try to explain the shifting of chunks of ground, pressing against each other to the point where they start to bend and eventually break, […]

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