meristem

My previous post was about an outdoors science math project adventure on Ash Wednesday, when we looked for Fibonacci spirals in nature and then watched videos on Khan Academy. I mentioned that I learned a word (and then I just stopped the post, yay awkard closings).  THAT WORD IS MERISTEM. Meristem is (thank you, Merriam-Webster)

Fibonacci spirals

Wednesday, March 1st, was Ash Wednesday – the start of Lent. Every year I want to make Lent a more important Thing (in the way that Advent and Christmas have grown for me), and every year I experience existential angst (bordering on crisis) over this situation. So. I started Wednesday by getting out of bed

your bread to eat

YOU KNOW HOW sometimes you want or hope for or pray for something, and what happens is… weird…