03/05/2026
The almost 15- and almost 18-year-old har been self-driven with their mathematics lately. Big sister said to little sister when she’d completed all her calculations, “I’m so proud of you!” I see you both. How often I have worried yet you both surpass all dreams and hopes for our unschooling path and dash all my fears each time. This journey has been the most spiritual of all my journeys. I’ve faced major dissolutions of ego and illusions of reality through the process of trusting the children, honoring dialogue and listening—always listening and observing, tracking the journey for the next right step on our path. And letting go of control. This is is where I find myself now: finally shifting gears and leaving behind my fear-based grip on controlling the nature of life. It’s been unwinding for decades but something new has shifting into motion. I can feel what has been liberated. Still, this life will continue to be a practice of becoming and relational healing toward thriving in peace and joy. Looking at photos the joy has always been here. I’m focusing on the love and beauty in life.