Photo Dump

Here are pictures from the first couple weeks of January:

 

New Years Day we attended a party at the Skidompha Library in Damariscotta,with a potluck, live music, and crafts for the kids, and then we went to the Damariscotta River Association for sledding - a HUGE hill!  But it was FREEZING that day.  Absolutely painful.

 Josiah was saying, "I can't watch this!"

 

Cutie didn't want to go down the hill, so she and I stayed frozen up top.  We did crash some friends enjoying hot chocolate and munchkins from Dunkin Donuts.  :)

 

Red cheeks!

 

 Siah likes to strum along to Bluegrass CDs in the car.

In a bit of a Musketeer phase right now:

Snow angels in the backyard with Ashton:

A cute picture of Abbey and Logan:

Having fun on their new bikes from Uncle Danny on a "warm" day earlier this month:

 

More to come soon!

Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity

My nephew Jared is getting concerned because I haven't been blogging this month!  :) 

So here's an excellent TED talk on education that I've watched again and again.  It's entertaining and I whole heartedly agree.

Enjoy!

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

And I promise to put some recent pics up.  Something that happens in Maine in the winter is that people go into hibernation mode.  My guess is that it is related to Vitamin D deficiency that leads to tiredness and much earlier bed times.  After my big year end push to get the blog up to date for the 2012 blog book (incidentally, there's a sale so I think I'll go ahead and order that sucker!), I haven't felt as driven this month.  My bad!

Here are some good quotes from the talk:

“I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.”

“Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.”

Vulnerability and Shame

Here are two talks from Brene Brown that I highly recommend:

The Power of Vulnerability

Listening to Shame