by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Awakening
Awakening || The Da Vinci Road Awakening There was a day when I heard that God loves me and I believed it to be true. I was so young I can't remember it clearly.There was another day, some years later, that I do remember. I sat in the back of a brown Oldsmobile next...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Awakening
Awakening || The Da Vinci Road Observation Begins Half asleep, early morning, nursing my baby, I faded in and out of dreamland. My fingers found a goose-down feather that had escaped our comforter. The baby's belly was soon round and taut with warm milk and she was...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Awakening
Awakening || The Da Vinci Road Beginning with Words Years ago, when our firstborn son was two years old, he had the obnoxious habit of repeating himself over and over. At first I continued to answer him patiently, the same answer ten times in a row. Next I resorted to...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Observe and Describe
Eyes Wide Open → Observe and Describe || The Da Vinci Road Using Your Senses “Close your eyes,” I told the kids. “Tell me what you hear and smell.”Sarah: “I hear the puppy's teeth against the bone she is chewing.”America: “I...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Observe and Describe
Eyes Wide Open → Observe and Describe || The Da Vinci Road H2 Oh! “Mom, Mom you gotta see this!!! You gotta! Come with me, hurry, hurry, up! Come right now!!!”My four-year-old son's insistence hit my ear at around fifty decibels and I winced even as I...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Observe and Describe
Eyes Wide Open → Observe and Describe || The Da Vinci Road Story Development It was a lovely late autumn day, and I abandoned all my indoor projects to go sit on the swing under the piñon pine tree on the hill. The kids were swinging from various ropes that hung from...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Immersion
Eyes Wide Open → Immersion || The Da Vinci Road Music “This song has fun stuff in it,” Seric commented, hitting the yellow button on the toy table again.A friend had given us a toy table with various buttons and noise-making contraptions on it. We placed...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Immersion
Eyes Wide Open → Immersion || The Da Vinci Road Language and Culture Flashback: Papua New Guinea, South Pacific, August 1997“What if he steals her soul? Maybe we should warn her.”“We're not supposed to talk about those things around her. You know how...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Immersion
Eyes Wide Open → Immersion || The Da Vinci Road Immersion into Any Medium “Look at Jack!” my brother exclaimed. We all looked at the three-year-old foster boy that had just arrived. He had been sitting on a stool at the table, next to my dad who was...
by Connect | Jan 1, 2020 | Understanding the Ethereal with the Material
Eyes Wide Open → Understanding the Ethereal with the Material || The Da Vinci Road Colorful Manipulatives “I need to work with Seric (4) on his letters for a while, so I want you, Sarah (7) and America, to sit at the table and do math with the big, glass beads....
