I spent the afternoon discussing sex trafficking, pornography, and the grocery store’s placement of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition (at the eye-level of third grade boys). Sometimes, all the sunshine in the world–all the love, all the joy, and all the hope–seems utterly tucked into shadows. I’m raising sons in this place, on this planet. […]
Archives for July 2014
Why I’m Writing About Sexual Abuse
As I work on making pages for the menu bar up there, I will periodically post the text of the pages in my regular posts. The following is the text for the Menu Page titled “Sexual Abuse.” To the following I will add this: It has taken me many years to come to the […]
Talking Some More About Childhood Sexual Abuse, Part 2
Brave -Part one here- I have a gone a long time in my life without careening into my old nemesis, sexual abuse. But perhaps in part because my own daughters have reached an age where their experience splits drastically from my own, and in part because I am deliberately writing about the subject, I am again confronted […]
Talking Some More About Childhood Sexual Abuse, Part 1
A Story A few weeks ago I left my daughter at Vacation Bible School. Walking away from her caused me to crumple in the van, a mess of panic with flashbacks and fear. She was entirely safe. But my heart was in agony. _______________ What Happened? Nothing out of the ordinary had taken place. On Monday morning I had […]
The Law of God
“[The law of God] is the preserver of true freedom and liberty. It points out and prohibits those things that degrade and enslave…” -Ellen White, Education pg. 291 This quote affects me deeply, and I think it’s because I see Jesus there, in place of the phrase Law of God. And when I look through the lens of […]
Wander
I love watching this boy wander.
Name Changes
This is just a note to tell those of you who follow on email or by some other means that going forward on this blog I am going to refer to my children by their middle names. It will not offer total privacy, but enough that I feel like my fingers can be loosened to […]
Homeschool Art: Using Color to Depict Feeling
In our home the making of art is primarily child-led. I set up the environment (papers, canvases, paints and brushes, colored pencils, scissors, glue, oil pastels, string, art instruction books, etc.) and the kids have free access to the supplies whenever they like. Every now and then, however, I pull out an art instruction book […]