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I didn't get around to answering comments this last week. I'm sorry about that. I also removed a few posts while editing the site. So, if you're looking for something in particular and it's not there, just let me know.
We saw His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Sunday.
I decided, at the last minute, not to bring my camera along with me. It was bulky and I wasn't 100% sure that it would pass through security. While waiting for the dialogue to begin, I received a comment from Shokoofeh (on my phone) that she was not permitted to bring in her DSLR when she saw His Holiness. After reading that, I was quite relieved that I had left it at home.
The governor gave an opening speech and then introduced the Madison Youth Choirs. During their performance, His Holiness came out along with UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson (CIHM), moderator Daniel Goleman, and HHDL's interpretor. Afterward, two of the children gave HHDL a University of Wisconsin Badgers hat, which he wore throughout the performance. (You can see a newspaper photo HERE.)
The dialogue was very interesting. Rather than recount it myself, I'll just point you to THIS newspaper article, if you're interested. I didn't find a full transcript online, but I also didn't look very hard. There are some great photos of his seventh visit to Madison on the Dalai Lama's website.
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The shot above is my favorite parking spot at Monroe Street Fine Arts Center, where X has had art lessons, improv classes, and guitar instruction for about five years. If anyone local is reading this, I highly recommend MSFAC.
Next month, X will be 18.
I have found myself thinking about personal evolution lately and these so-called phases that one goes through in life. After mulling it over, I have decided that it is others, society in general really, who have left the impression that X and I should move onto completely areas in our lives because of this whole 18-thing. I don't feel that she must move directly onto college or career; She doesn't feel that she must move directly onto college or career. That is the beauty of the unschooling mindset ... There are no rigid rules about life and learning. This mindset shouldn't be restricted to unschooling, in my opinion, and more the norm as opposed to the exception.
Things will evolve slowly and naturally, with no real line between then and now, no clear definition of one phase or another. That is the way that I like it.
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I didn't go to NoBrandCon this year, but X and Joseph did. (It looks like SOMEBODY had a good time.) Later this week, I'll tell you who X cosplayed as and post photos of her in costume(s).
Here are a few things that I keep forgetting to mention ...
... my heart beats outside my body. In two months, two stays in the hospital.
Comments closed today, thank you.
Thank you to everyone who sent get-well messages, left kind comments, and thought good things for X during the time that she was sick.
It is SO very nice to be back home and getting into my usual routine. (X is required to take it easy for a few days and lean back into her normal life slowly.) I spent most of the morning decompressing, mentally, from being stuck in a hospital where I often disagree with strict, blind western medicine. After having type I diabetes for 26 years, it's difficult to find anyone in our village or our sister village who knows more about it than I do. Fortunately, the staff was very cooperative. While they did her lab work and provided intravenous fluids, I was put in charge of insulin adjustments to deal with sickness, ketoacidosis, IV dextrose, removal of IV dextrose, and post-hospital care regarding her basal and bolus dosing. Their realization that I knew what I was doing felt very rewarding.
Either way, I'm home now and ready to do some laundry, wash a few dishes, and find all the mundane beauty that I can in a single day. Or moment.
I hope you find some beauty in your life today. Or now.
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X was hospitalized yesterday afternoon and should be coming home today. I am so tired, both from not getting much sleep while staying with her at the hospital as well as all the nights before she was admitted, while she was getting more and more ill. I knew that it was diabetic ketoacidosis, which I can usually take care of at home, but she has an infection that caused that state so hospitalization was necessary. She is now on antibiotics for only the second time in her life. I haven't had them in 16-17 years either.
Tired.
Have a nice week and don't get sick, please.
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Hey there.
I feel suddenly silent lately, but it is not for lack of activity, productivity, nor creativity. Nor for lack of reading lots of blogs on the internet! I feel especially inspired by the season, the snow, the cold, interior styling sites, new friends commenting, food, colors, light and costumery. My mind is running a happy million miles an hour.
I should have some new linkage to share very soon.
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