News & Muse
In Truth. For Better or for Worse.
This week I sit down to my computer to write, and my children are playing in my daughter’s bedroom. Last week, following a minor breakdown on my part, I instead did my work in a local coffee shop while my husband had the children for the day. This was necessary to...
From Education System to Unschooling De-systemization
A universal journey through rejection, re-connection, observation, and understanding. by Joanne Hunt, program coordinator, farmer, unschooler, mother, at Finca Maravilla, Aguada, PR I come from a line of educators. My mother taught the reception class at our local...
Soul Food Reflections
Soul Food Friday is a weekly happening hosted at our home, a small, family-owned and operated farm/homestead, situated in the hills of a coastal region of western Puerto Rico on the border of two towns: Rincon and Aguada. This corner of the island - and the town of...
Wonderland
Those who can, do
Those who can’t, teach,
And those who can’t teach, teach teachers
I heard this cheerless ditty many times while working as a London schoolteacher – largely from people in other professions, although it was embraced with some humorous and self-deprecating resignation by my colleagues.
It echoed around my being, inspired some sense of shame, and prompted me to explore many aspects of my art in greater depth – writing, acting, music, editing: all of which have become important arteries of my existence.