My students and I dug up several promising new Duranta stumps from the same failing hedge I got my last one. Here they are, freshly dug. They’ve all leafed out by now but you can see the character of the gnarled wood better when they are bare like this. I have only the faintest idea […]
Daily Archives: April 13, 2012
KakAndak starts school
My fifth child started school this year. She’s going to a different school from her siblings. It is a Ma’had Tahfiz, a school focusing on Quran study, that only started primary school last year. Now they have first and second graders enrolled. They memorize Quran in the morning, and have a normal school day in […]
Hearts and Brains
KakNgah asked me if it was true that our hearts are the size of our fist, and our brains are the size of our two fists put together. I put my two fists together, shrugged and told her that sounded about right to me. She looks at her two fists. Blinks. Wails: “My brain is […]