Exploring the Third Season of Life
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I’m a veteran teacher, flutist, naturalist, and writer.
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Carole
Recent Posts
A story about polite asking, complaints, and answering
I discovered this week that it’s extra important to be polite when I really, really want something to happen and it’s not happening as planned. In other words, polite when I’m being tested: my will or God’s? For the past few years, I’ve been dealing with...
Paideia: to nurture discipline, education, and instruction
Back in the day when I was called to nurture adolescent girls in my classrooms at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, I used the Paideia approach: didactic instruction, coaching, and Socratic seminars. Popularized by Mortimer Adler in the 1980s, Paideia nurturing of the...
There you shall bury me: burying our parents, buried in Christ
This week’s prompt was “bury,” and indeed, that word has been on my mind, as Mother’s death was last week. For six years ago, we buried her. From my February 17, 2020 post: “My two sisters and I will bury our mother next to our father in the New...