Request for help, and many anniversaries

• 10th Learn Nothing Day (July 24, 2017)
  
• 7th anniversary of Just Add Light and Stir (September 2, 2017)
  
• "When I'm 64" (this year; see my birth announcement)
  
• 15-year-old website, SandraDodd.com
  
• 25 years since my first published writing on unschooling.

So on July 23, I asked for donations, with this link:
http://sandradodd.com/2017/

After September 2 (the 7th anniversary of Just Add Light), I won't ask again until 2020.

Thanks to those who have already helped!

AND ANOTHER THING (lots of things): It's been nine years since I reminded anyone about this feedback page:
http://sandradodd.com/feedback/

photo (a link) by Shonna Morgan

The fabric of life

Turns out there's a phrase I've used several times, "fabric of life".
http://sandradodd.com/Fabric

There was already a "fabric of life" page with writing by Schuyler Waynforth. I introduced it on this blog in 2013, though it wasn't quite new at that time. I didn't want to dilute the beauty of that page, so I made the new page with a capital F in Fabric. Later, whichever one you guess will lead to the other, too.

quoting from 2013:
The Fabric of an Unschooling Life (new page I had not previously announced):
http://sandradodd.com/fabric

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd

Comparisons and judgments

None of these are introductions to unschooling, but are about ideas at a more philosophical level. Some people like such things, and others don't.

Clean-up and additions (good ones!) to three pages considering judgment:

New writing, second item in right-hand column:
http://sandradodd.com/chats/comparisons.html

Addition of "All sin is equal?"
http://sandradodd.com/judgment.html

Additions and cleanup to a page about sleep, advice and defensiveness:
http://sandradodd.com/goodorbad.html

And one more bonus page, in which I implore unschooling parents to respect what their children love.
http://sandradodd.com/crap.html

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd

Instinct, smells, defend yourself, divorce

Instinct—something beautiful by a nearly anonymous mom, and the beginning of a collection,
http://sandradodd.com/instinct

Smells and smelling (and instinct)
http://sandradodd.com/smells

An older page never yet announced, cleaned up, a bit harsh, but says this important thing:
"If someone can't defend a position to other unschoolers, how will they do with the relatives or the social workers?"
http://sandradodd.com/defendyourself

Addition to page on prevention of divorce (box, right), and follow links too if you haven't been there before.
http://sandradodd.com/divorce

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd