Kitchen Science : Fermentation

Product of fermentation class...learning by doing.  Homemade Sauerkraut.

6th Grade

School Prayer

In the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,

I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.

In the name of the sun and its mirrors
and the day that embraces it
and the cloud veils drawn over it
and the uttermost night
and the male and the female
and the plants bursting with seed
and the crowning seasons
of the firefly and the apple,

I will honor all life
—wherever and in whatever form
it may dwell—on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars.

- Diane Ackerman

Spontaneous Sunset Picnic : Stony Man Summit

"Drink dawn like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper..." - Rumi

It was our last sunset picnic of the summer and school begins Tuesday.  We hiked to the top of Stony Man and watched the sunset.  We found our way back down to base in the quickening darkness and at our picnic under the milky way.

"This was the most extraordinary, beautiful day", he said.