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Making knots into rainbows.

Ideas: alternative education, neurodiversity, non-violence, cultural studies, collaborative parenting, HAES, anti-racism, permaculture. Interests: memoir, BIPOC fiction, Palestine, California, Ireland, DCP stories, nature writing, creative geography, cookbooks, graphic novels, picture books, poetry, guidebooks. About: White cis woman. Unschooling parent. PhD in English/Feminist Theory, specializing in 19th-20th century California domestic fiction. Volunteer support group moderator at "Unschooling Every Family." Podcaster at "Untangling Oursleves." Healing CPTSD. Bagel maker and haphazard gardener.

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Katrine Marcal: Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? (Paperback, Portobello Books Ltd)

Rollo May: The Courage to Create (W. W. Norton & Company)

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Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle: We Can Do Hard Things

Katarina Cermelj: The Elements of Baking (2024, Quercus)

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Cynthia Voigt: Dicey's Song (The Tillerman Series #2) (Hardcover, 2002, Tandem Library)

Angie Voss: Understanding Your Child's Sensory Signals (2011)

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raveller reviewed Fawning by Ingrid Clayton

Ingrid Clayton: Fawning (2025, Penguin Publishing Group)

Life changing

5 stars

It's taken me a while to review this because where can I start. It is one of the most important mental health books I've ever read. Maybe not for everyone, but for almost anyone with CPTSD, and if you ever felt frozen and like you were responding to threats in a way that goes against your morals but you can't seem to stop, if you ever wondered why you can never seem to fight back or speak out in the moment someone does something wrong, then it's for you.

raveller wants to read Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marcal

Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marcal

raveller wants to read Out of Time by Kate Simpson

Out of Time by Kate Simpson

If you compressed the whole of Earth’s history into a single day, the first humans that look like us would …

raveller finished reading Dicey's Song (The Tillerman Series #2) by Cynthia Voigt (Tillerman)

Dicey's Song (The Tillerman Series #2) by Cynthia Voigt (Tillerman)

When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an …

raveller started reading School Isn't for Everyone by Heidi Steel

School Isn't for Everyone by Heidi Steel

Unschooling, a learner-centred educational philosophy, breaks away from the confines of traditional schooling, advocating for a more organic, child-centric approach.

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raveller finished reading Understanding Your Child's Sensory Signals by Angie Voss

Understanding Your Child's Sensory Signals by Angie Voss

Sensory tools and strategies made simple for home, school, and in the community!

Handbook includes over 210 of the …

raveller wants to read The Courage to Create by Rollo May

The Courage to Create by Rollo May

raveller quoted Dicey's Song (The Tillerman Series #2) by Cynthia Voigt (Tillerman)

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When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and …

Content warning Spoiler for the first book, Homecoming

"Home. Home with their momma's momma, who was also a Tillerman. Home: a home with plenty of room for the four children in the shabby farmhouse, room inside, room outside, and the kind of room within Gram too--Dicey had seen Gram and how she listened when Maybeth sang, how she talked with James, how her eyes smiled at the things Sammy said and did--the kind of room that was what they really needed." (1)

— Dicey's Song (The Tillerman Series #2) by Cynthia Voigt (Tillerman) (Page 1)

This is a beautiful quote about parenting and reminds me of the Toni Morrison quote about showing a child you are glad to see them when they walk in the room:

(from Brene Brown summarizing the Oprah episode): "Morrison explained that it’s interesting to watch what happens when a child walks into a room. She asked, “Does your face light up?”

She explained, “When my children used to walk in the room when they were little, I looked at them to see if they had buckled their trousers or if their hair was combed or if their socks were up. You think your affection and your deep love is on display because you’re caring for them. It’s not. When they see you, they see the critical face. What’s wrong now?”

Her advice was simple, but paradigm-shifting for me. She said: “Let your face speak what’s in your heart. When they walk in the room my face says I’m glad to see them. It’s just as small as that, you see?”" brenebrown.com/articles/2019/08/07/what-toni-morrison-taught-me-about-parenting/