I'll rock you like the sea

25 Days of Christmas with INPRNT: Jason Mowry.

For Supersonic Art’s 11th selection for our annual 25 Days of Christmas with INPRNT is artist Jason Mowry.  Mowry’s surreal and dreamy illustrations are all available as fine art prints in his INPRNT Shop.

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Typewriter Series #2809 by Tyler Knott Gregson

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When walls crumble, rubble remains. Every piece of barrier ever built, every excuse and isolating insulation scatters, all that we know silenced in the dust and fragment of who we were.  

You came, steady and still, and wandered through the mountain of ash and stone.   Gently, you raised each piece, pebble to boulder and called them beautiful.  

Broken walls in your tired hands, I cannot be pieces when you love me whole.  

Because tumblr now only allows 250 links on a page or some nonsense like that, here’s my DIY Witchery Resource page broken down. It’s not all of, but I did as much as I could for now:

Part 1: Info about me, and my blog, my thoughts on building a secular witchcraft practice, Witchling info and some thoughts on how to get started studying witchcraft, Problems with the general New Age and pagan community including cultural appropriation and their “grabby hands” approach to things they perceive as exotic.

Part 2: Magical Mechanics, Skepticism, Misconceptions about Witchcraft, and Secular Witchcraft

Part 3: Posts about different Kinds Of Spells, and also Witchy Tips

Part 4: General Spell List

Part 5: Cleansing, Anti-Negativity, Wards, and Protection Spells

Part 6: Curses, because sometimes curses just level the playing field

Part 7: Magical Brainstorming and more Witchy Tips

Part 8: Energy Works and Sigils

Part 9: Crafts and DIY Witchy Stuff

Home in France

June 8, 2018

Mom declares her daughter is done with homework in viral email.

Blogger Bunmi Laditan sent her 10-year-old’s school a clear message.

“Hello Maya’s teachers,

Maya will be drastically reducing the amount of homework she does this year. She’s been very stressed and is starting to have physical symptoms such as chest pain and waking up at 4 a.m. worrying about her school workload.

We have stopped doing homework altogether with my 7 year old as a result of severe anxiety/depression and a learning disability. She had gotten to a place where she had so little self confidence and truly believed that she was stupid and worthless, not just because of homework of course – but every time we tried to sit down to do homework with her, it’d end in tears with her really vehemently berating herself, and no amount of encouragement could ameliorate the damage done. Now, granted, she’s got other things going on besides just an overload of school work. But in NO WAY did the homework help her, either academically or emotionally. 

No little kid should have to spend an hour or more each night getting through homework. Now, my deal with Siena is that if she wants to give her homework a shot, I will absolutely help her if she wishes for help, but I no longer force her to complete all of it or to work on it for some set length of time before finally throwing in the towel. 

Guess what? With the pressure taken off, she’s actually doing MORE independent work now, purely out of the desire to learn and practice, than she ever was before we’d decided with her therapy team and school that homework was just not a thing this kid could handle.

Luckily for my older daughter my school’s 3rd-grade team decided to hand out homework only 3x/week, and the sheets take no more than 15-20 minutes to complete. That is totally reasonable for 8-9 year olds! 

My education classes pushed so hard the idea that any time you have a kid do something, you should be able to justify it, and a lot of homework just can’t be justified. It’s busywork or it’s redundant (reading on the same info given in a lecture) or stuff that should be done in class if it needs to be done at all, and if it has justifications, the justifications are weak. Reading (and not textbook chapters where the same info will be delivered in lecture) is one of those things that is usually a justifiable homework…but the busy work distracts from that the worst, because it’s easier to hide that you didn’t read than that you didn’t do a worksheet.