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Monday #24: Groundhog Day
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ~Sophia … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Creativity, dar, dar hosta, dar hosta james, darhosta, Groundhog Day, happiness, intuitive painting, Miami, painting
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Monday #19: Year New Haiku
Something that I’ve noticed about working with children in poetry workshops is how much they enjoy “template” based poetry lessons. Template based poems are those that give you a structure or a format to follow and, particularly in the beginning, kids really gravitate … Continue reading
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Tagged dar, haiku, imagination, literacy, nature, new year's, Poetry
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Monday #22: This Is Only A Test
Last week I learned about a very smart, very creative, very interesting math whiz. Her name is Vi Hart and she calls herself a mathemusician. Her goal is simple: to make math cool. Now, maybe some of you already think … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Creativity, dar, dar hosta, darhosta, education, happiness, imagination, learning, Litemind, Mathematics, Recall (memory), school, Student, Study skills, Teacher, teaching, Theorem, writing
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Monday #17: Cards and Bards
I never sent out holiday cards last year. I don’t really know why, I just didn’t. And, I still feel badly about it, but I haven’t even gotten this year’s cards ready yet and it’s already December 20. I am … Continue reading
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Tagged art, books, cardinal, cheer, cheerfulness, Child, Children, Christmas card, Couplet, dar, dar hosta, education, Facebook, Greeting card, happiness, holidays, learning, nature, Poetry, rhyme, silly, Stephen Sondheim, Teacher, teaching, trees, writing
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Monday #12: Ain’t Misbehavin’
These days we spend a lot of time, in our lives and in our schools, trying to figure out how to focus. From what I can tell, we seem to be very worried that our multi-tasking and multi-media are going … Continue reading
Monday #11: The Chain Gang
One of the questions that people like me get asked a lot is where do you get your inspiration? But, as soon as I tell people that my dad is an artist, they nod and give you that look like, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artists, books, dar, dar hosta, hosta, illustration, Jane Ray, Marc Chagall, nature, Nick Bantock, painting, Paul Gauguin, Post-Impressionism, Robert Genn, running, Tate Modern, trees, Wolf Kahn
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