I call it a learning lifestyle because it does not start and stop.
We live seasonally. When the days are longer, we are outside more. When kids are in school, we’re in the spaces that have been abandoned. When the weather calls for it, we take a trip.
My son didn’t know Summer Vacation was a thing until the end of 2nd grade. He thought that was unfair, then looked at our pace versus so many who are chasing test scores and awards. We work on completed projects and growth, no matter how long they take.
This post was quickly removed by Delaware Division of Public Health.
Living a healthier lifestyle will reduce your chances of infection and the worst outcomes to a greater percentage than any vaccine could. They hinted at that for a moment and had to disappear it.
Being a public health organization, they don’t even know how to lose weight. Nor do they know how you can make yourself healthier. They don’t know your body nor what it needs.
Take control of your own health through education, nutrition, exercise, and mindfulness. You have all the power you need. You do not need a public health official.
I asked for compassion for my motherless sons and our hope to go to a music festival without being forced to take a novel medical product into our bodies.
The response was an unhinged flood of comments on my feed and in my DMs.
This individual wishes to limit the joy that these boys are allowed to experience after losing their mother. He thinks that life is fully lived in an Instagram feed and that for me to ask for more for them is selfish.
He made no effort to understand what music meant to my wife. He made no effort to understand how much music festivals have helped to heal us in times of mourning.
This specific festival, Delfest, was the first I took my sons to after their mother suddenly died. I introduced them to some of her favorite artists, Rhiannon Giddens and The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, in the particular.
We hope to return to that festival, but their looming insistence on vaccinating all guests threatens this adventure. Tickets are purchased, plans are made, and excitement builds, yet this may be taken from us. The lack of clarity and narrow timeframe before the show make the disappointment deeper.
I think the question was facetious, but I had to explain this meme to someone and I like where it goes.
The Grasshoppers are perceived to be powerful, without that perception, they have nothing. It is about empowering the citizen against the government.
The terrorist is never the one with the power (the powerful are the ones who label their enemies “terrorist”) and the Grasshoppers don’t act like terrorists.
The Grasshoppers act like organized crime (aka, the government).
The vax analog is easy, “It’s not about public health, it’s about power.”
The Grasshoppers murder millions overseas and leave the rest to be raped and persecuted. Then they come home and you expect them to care about our lives?
Rhythm. Balance. The tune is always changing and we must listen our bodies to stay in the dance.
This summer has been all soccer. I was playing 4-5 games a week. It didn’t leave me feeling able to train jiu-jitsu nor practice yoga as frequently as I wanted to.
None of these practices can be done at my whim, I need to work within other people’s schedules, although I am blessed with plentiful opportunities in all of them. In the last couple weeks I’ve gone down to one soccer match a week with increasing yoga and jiu-jitsu sessions.
My body was a little surprised. For soccer, the 6-day break shook it out of its rhythm. I certainly need more than that. Come fall, I’ll be playing at least twice a week.
For jiu-jitsu, I finally trained two days in a row and observed the benefits of close repetition. I felt the fatigue on the second day, but saw a potential in myself to roll more often.
More yoga is a no brainer. My mind, body, and spirit always feel recovered and more prepared after an hour of hot vinyasa.
I’m approaching a balance and rhythm that I hope is successful through fall and into the future.
10 September 2021 EDIT: Homeschool Delaware has changed their policy on permitting certain events. My post that created the stir remains deleted and I feel strongly that there is an air of unfriendliness towards those who are not excessively compliant to public health recommendations. I find this out of sync with home education principles in that we often urge parents to be minimally compliant with overreaching school administrators.
Original post follows:
The largest homeschooling group in Delaware has taken it upon themselves to go beyond State mandates and limit the ability of its members to communicate.
After Governor Carney declared that all K-12 schools, public and private, and childcare centers would have to mask children full time, there was an influx of interest and participation in the homeschool community.
All Delaware homeschool groups became busy with new members, questions, and general activity. The mask mandate was the clear motivation.
Homeschool Delaware decided to expand the Governor’s mask order to include any indoor gathering mentioned on their page. They would not allow postings by members which defied their newly declared limitations.
One chooses home education for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the most common is to escape the rules and regulations of schools. Whether too lenient or stringent, a family parts ways with the school system because it no longer shares their values.
One certainly doesn’t go through the anxiety and difficulty of home education to accept less personal freedom.
Although it is the largest, it is not the only group that supports home educators in Delaware. I strongly recommend the following Facebook groups if you need help on your journey (Spoiler Alert: You do):
