True that.

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

Gus, Gus, Gus...

Half-artist, half-musician.  All wild man, all the time...  Here he is reciting Hamlet.

More Maddy-Lion.

Maddy (she's the one in pink) still wants to be a writer, despite all my warnings--haha!  She loves composing stories and poems (she even read a poem of hers publicly last week at the monthly poetry reading I host!), and weeps at Robert Frost's poetry.  She is gentle and mischievous--a real little imp. 

Stellastar.

Stella is obsessed with birds, art, needlework, fashion, and period movies.  She is a stunning, strong, and spirited girl, and she turns 13 in just eleven days!  I think for her birthday we're going to make a trip to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville--in full dress!  She and Madeline are also having a big birthday celebration here at home toward the end of July.  The theme?  Gone With the Wind, of course!

Teenagers Are Amazing.

So, Ezra (second from the left--gray shirt) was accepted by the Health Science Institute this summer.  He made lots of new friends, and had a blast shadowing health care professionals, attending lectures, and traveling to visit larger hospitals in Indianapolis.  He was even able operate a Da Vinci Robot, and he was asked to represent the student body as a speaker at their banquet--what an honor!  He's been busy preparing for the college application process, and he's narrowed his choices down a bit.  Antioch College is first (of course!), then Earlham, and The University of the Cumberlands.  He's currently working on an organic CSA farm, which is run by the Daughters of Charity, the nuns I work for part-time as a nurse.

Wow, It's Really Been That Long.

The last post I wrote was about Clara's college application process. 

She was accepted at Antioch College on a full tuition scholarship!  She loves it.  She's majoring in Psychology, minoring in French, and she just returned from her first work co-op (required at Antioch) herding sheep for Black Mesa Indigenous Support on the Navajo Nation/ Hopi Lands in Arizona.