“From Under Our Big Tree” Newsletter: Week #2 at our School (2015)

The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 20 September 2015 Weekly Newsletter #2 – Community-Wide “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero Dear Community Member, Home-school folders will be given to your children this week. For returning families, we called them …

TKG LISTEN: Simplify

“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” Katherine Gerould (1879 – 1944) In our efforts to live the ‘good life’, we can easily find ourselves overwhelmed by seemingly endless choices, decisions and activities. Here are a few ways to help slow down, and give ourselves time to …

TKG LEARN: Is Food A Race Issue?

Is Food A Race Issue? Oakland’s People’s Grocery Examines Connection At Commonwealth Club By Mehroz Baig There are many discussions about race and demographics—how race factors into crime and incarceration, for example, or race as a factor in employment and unemployment. However, one subject that may not obviously be tied …

TKG LEARN: Trust.

Trust by Lisa A. McCrohan//BarefootBarn Blog I hurriedly stuck my hand into my bag looking for my keys. Rushing, feeling frustrated, feeling like there were too many things to do and not enough time, getting irritated with myself for not being compassionate with myself because “I should know better” (how’s …