So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. -- Nietzsche

Free Range Kids Movement

Interesting...

http://www.freerangekids.com/

good thing I don't obsess over parenting blogs anymore.

For to See

i wove you a garland of poems before we met
which you cobwebbed like yesterday's mothballs

as if cotton had crawled inside the mouth of god
and died there
and its name was me

of course, your petty sidesteps only served to invoke
in me a greater fervor
a fever matched only by our very memes
and fleeting memories of a night and a day
shared in ecstasy
and spared the longevity of heartache.

i think…

I pour a drink despite
a shaking hand
and head full of brass tacks
and bliss

i kiss my future and she tastes of you
and a mourning of spent cigarettes
and second-hand emotions

I ocean over your body
the sea I see
eyes closed
against this torrent

my head bent in prayer and retrospection
ever since you deigned
to darken my door

lady, shade, scant dream

this seam I preen and prod
a road trod in reverse
like a novel lived back words
plots spiraling inward
to knots and scars and stories
we need bear witness

flit feathers like the birdsong in my mouth
when I touched you in my mind a year
before our fear
came realized
out a gate of our own making

a lust must longing for release
when no port is home
and our stars are the only map to heaven

9.5.13

“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.” ― Robert Frost

“I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.” ― Kurt Cobain, Journals

Apps for Yer Children Part One

http://teacherswithapps.com/

Just found this one the other day, let me know if you find any that you or your child can't live without.

the daily smatterings

mostly just the tabs I didn't get around to reading all the way, or closing, or doing anything more productive with than this:

https://plus.google.com/+MAKE

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/08/google-maker-camp/ -

Google And Make Magazine Beat The Classroom With Virtual Science Camp For Teens

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2011/11/15/first-public-library-to-create-a-maker-space/

First Public Library to Hack a Maker Lab Together!

http://www.makers.com/blog/watch-meet-makers-google

- Meet Makers @ Google

http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/08/google-maker-camp/

Google destroys boredom with summer ‘Maker Camp’ for kids 13 and up