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There are people whose first name carries power.
If you say �Michael� it could be understood that you�re referring to Michael Jordan. The name �Peyton� has that same power.
Peyton Manning is a true living legend who may put a lasting stamp on an extraordinary career. Manning has collected five MVP awards to go with seven first-team All-Pro selections, but there are some who believe he still needs to validate the gaudy stats.
Manning has the one Super Bowl championship, but there are some disappointing postseason showings that some believe taint his �legacy� a bit.
�I�ve been asked about my legacy since I was 25 years old,� Manning said during Tuesday�s Media Day session at the Prudential Center. �I�m not sure you can have a legacy when you are 25 years old, or even 37. I thought you had to be 70 to have a legacy. I�m not 100 percent sure what the word even means. I�m down the homestretch of my career, but I�m still in it. It�s not over yet. It�s still playing out. This has been the second chapter of my career, and it is an exciting chapter.�
Winning a second Super Bowl certainly enhances Manning�s legend, but he does not need it to be among the all-time greats.
A common sports narrative has been judging players solely on how many championships they won. It�s not fair to do that because there are so many aspects of the game, especially in football, that any single individual player has no control over.
It seems to be forgotten that Manning played on several Indianapolis Colts teams that did not very good defenses. Manning elevated those teams because of a prolific offense, but the Colts ran into some good defensive teams and lost.
Plus, when it�s a single-elimination tournament like football, it�s hard to have sustained success in the postseason because one bad bounce or one bad game ends your season.
Judging an individual player has to take into account the whole package. Manning�s regular season accomplishments have to matter when ranking him against the greats of all-time.
The first five seasons of Terry Bradshaw�s career were pretty awful (48 touchdowns, 81 interceptions), but he had a Super Bowl championship to his credit. If Bradshaw played in this era, he would have been benched and probably out of the league with those numbers.
Bradshaw did have incredible seasons in the second half of his career, but it�s not fair to rank him ahead of Manning simply because he was a part of four Super Bowl championship teams littered with Hall of Famers on both sides of the ball.
The postseason success for an individual player should absolutely be taken into account, but it cannot be the only factor. Win or loseSunday night, Manning�s place in football lore is safe.
When Manning says he does not know what the word �legacy� means, he is correct. His final legacy should not be written yet.
While most everyone, even New York Giants fans, should agree that Peyton Manning is a better player than Eli Manning, there is always that qualification � �Well, Eli has one more ring than Peyton!�
That is true, but it doesn�t make Eli better than Peyton � not even close.
But Peyton�s career is not over yet. He might retire with one Super Bowl title, he might retire with four, nobody knows that yet.
We live in a society that loves to make snap judgements and ESPN loves to rank everything under the sun. It makes for fun debates, but it really isn�t fair.
One of Manning�s bosses, John Elway, faced similar criticism, if you will, because he had great regular seasons but the Broncos never got over the hump and won a Super Bow. In fact, Elway�s Broncos were hammered in three Super Bowl appearances by a combined score of 136-40.
After Elway capped his career with two consecutive Super Bowl titles, the narrative changed and suddenly those Broncos teams were remembered as being inferior to the three powerhouses they faced that particular season.
�I don�t think this game, one way or the other, affects his legacy the way that he has played,� said Elway, the Broncos� executive vice president of football operations. �So he�s going to be one of the all-time greats no matter what, and this will definitely help (the argument against it) if we lose it, but the bottom line, this year that he has had � legacies don�t get great until you�re done. That�s when people start talking.�
Instead of trying to judge whether or not Manning is better than Johnny Unitas or Joe Montana, we should enjoy his greatness. The best part of sports is witness greatness in front of our eyes, and that is Peyton Manning.
It will be a sad day when he decides to retire, although he sounds like a man who is not ready to do that yet.
�I feel a little bit better than I thought I would coming off that (neck) surgery a couple of years ago,� said Manning. �I feel better physically. I�ve been rejuvenated playing under a different offense, playing with new receivers because it keeps me stimulated every day. So, I certainly would like to keep playing.�
A recurrence of his neck injury may force him to retire some day soon, but until he is standing on that podium saying he is done we should take advantage of this era of sports we have in front of us. There will be other great players who come and go, but Peyton Manning, like his boss Elway, is a one of a kind legend.
�He�s the ultimate pro,� said Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas. �The way that he goes about preparing himself for the game, what he does before games and during games, I�ve just learned so much. I never knew that you could look at a safety, linebacker or defensive end and figure out what the coverage is going to be.�
Paul Jannace is the sports editor of the Wellsville (N.Y.) Daily Reporter, a Gatehouse Media publication. He is covering his 4th Super Bowl and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/pjscribe.
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E. June (Rudy) Fogle, 75, of Vista, Calif., and formerly of Waynesboro, Pa., passed away Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, in California. Born June 7, 1937, in Georgetown, Md., she was the daughter of Edward and Charlotte (Glass) Rudy. June was a graduate of Waynesboro High School with the Class of 1955. She furthered her studies at Washington County School of Nursing in Hagerstown, Md., earning her R.N. degree in 1958. She married Bob Fogle on May 24, 1959, celebrating their 53rd wedding anniversary in May 2012. They lived in Hagerstown and Vista, Calif. Following her graduation, June was employed as an operating room nurse at Washington County Hospital. She enjoyed taking care of her cats, golfing, gardening, exercising, reading, traveling, being with friends and family and "shopping a bunch." She was proud of her association with her local Humane Societies, San Diego Zoological Society, Washington County School of Nursing Alumni Association, Shadow Ridge Country Club in Vista and her Young at Heart Exercise Class at Vista Senior Center. June's keen sense of humor always allowed her to find the lighter side of any situation and felt loyalty to friends and family was important. In addition to her husband, she is survived by her sister, Bonnie Wolff and her husband Bob of Chambersburg, Pa.; one aunt; and a number of nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Carl Rudy and Monte Rudy. A memorial service will be held later in the spring of 2013. Memorial donations may be made in her memory to: the ALS Foundation, 1275 K Street NW, Suite 1050, Washington, D.C. 20005; Waynesboro Humane Society, 8513 Lyons Road, Waynesboro Pa. 17268; North County Humane Society, 572 Airport Road, Oceanside, Calif. 92058; San Diego Zoological Society, Development Department, Attn: Donation Processing, P.O. Box 120551, San Diego Calif. 92112-0551; or Christ Presbyterian Church of LaCosta, 7802 Centella St., Carlsbad, Calif. 92009. June felt there were just too many people to thank and would like us to remember to live, love, laugh and if you have time, shop. Local arrangements are by Grove-Bowersox Funeral Home, Waynesboro. Online condolences may be expressed at: www.bowersoxfuneralhomes.com


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What did your child do at preschool today? You can try asking, but often they will say they did nothing or they "played." The most common question I receive from parents is, "How can I know he is doing anything at school? He never tells me anything and his cubby has been empty for days."
Please believe me, your child is doing something. A lot of stuff, actually. But he may not remember "doing" anything at all that day. And his accomplishments often cannot be held in the hand or seen with the eye at pick-up time. If he could tell you, it might sound like this:
I concentrated today!
When someone asked to play with me, I said yes.
I looked at the caterpillars in the jar - for a very long time. Then my teacher read me a book about butterflies. Twice. Because I asked.
I sat next to a friend who was labeling the lifecycle of the frog. I handed her the labels and helped her match them. I got her a paper towel when her fingers were gluey.
When everyone was talking about bees I told them, "Bumblebees don't sting. Only honey bees sting. Bumblebees just bumble." Everyone agreed with me.
I looked at a real chicken egg and a real duck egg. I said the duck egg was bigger.
I used the very heavy tortilla press to make playdough tortillas. My friends helped and we laughed. None of us pinched our fingers.
I compromised about sitting in the comfy chair.
I served myself a snack, ate it politely alongside my friends, and cleaned up after myself.
I felt sad - just for a little bit - because I missed my mom.
I noticed that the lizard's food bowl was empty and cut some lettuce for him.
I waited for a turn on the orange bike.
I heard that a friend is going to Korea for the summer and I gave him a hug to say goodbye.
A preschooler's greatest and most important work often doesn't have any external product to show for it. Having and being a friend, acting out of kindness, demonstrating patience and self-control, taking care of oneself, feeling satisfied with a job well done - these things are all internalized. The children in our classrooms build their character and their understanding of the world every day, but they can't always verbalize it. They are doing so much challenging work! But they do not yet see their actions and successes as separate from themselves.
After a sunflower seed sprouts in the garden we might notice as the stem grows taller, but we cannot see the acts of photosynthesis and respiration and transpiration that take place every single day. The sunflower plant continues to do its work converting sunlight to sugars and sugars to fuel - the internal work of living - whether we take notice or not. Then, one day it blooms and we look at it and say, "Finally!"
Maria Montessori believed that the child reveals himself through his work, not through his outwardly visible successes and accomplishments. Every experience he has is internalized and becomes a part of his very being. She put it this way, "The things he sees are not just remembered; they form a part of his soul."
Stories from their day and recorded work, like the blooms of a sunflower, are parts of the child we can see and they might be pleasing to us, but they are only the product of a monumental amount of internal work. So please don't worry when your child says she did nothing all day. Nothing to grown-ups can be everything in the life of a child.
Lots of peace, lots of love ~ Heather
Grace's first day of Montessori preschool, 1997.
Last summer, my 19-year-old daughter was getting ready to move into her first apartment. I was excited for her to have the chance to live on her own and had been setting aside household items that I thought she could use. One day, after admiring the "steal" of a chair I had found at Goodwill, she asked me, "Aren't you sad that I won't live here anymore?"
"Well, honey," I said, "I always imagined that you would grow up and move out of the house. That was our goal all along for you to be an independent, self-sufficient person."
"I know," she said. "But I'm kind of sad that I won't be sleeping here anymore."
I reminded her that she had hardly slept at home at all since she started college last year. She lived in the dorm, four hours away from home and we often didn't hear from her for days.
"Yeah, but this is different. I just can't believe this won't be my home address anymore. Are you going to change the garage door code?"
A-ha! Then I figured it out. She was worried about cutting the cord from the house where she grew up. I had been concerning myself with making sure she was comfortable "out there" and she was worried she would no longer be welcome back at home.
It occurred to me that not much has changed between that day and the day sixteen years ago when we were preparing to send her to preschool here at the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. Back then we were so excited to help our "baby" pick out a new lunch box and indoor shoes but we had little idea what to do to help prepare her (or ourselves) emotionally for this new chapter. She sailed through preschool and is now working through nursing school just fine, but we have learned a lot since then. Today I am sharing some tips and advice gathered from teachers and parents here at MSGL to help you and your child prepare for the first days of preschool.
Talk about school - mindfully.
Talk with your child about preschool when he is in the mood. Maybe he will bring it up or you can start the conversation, just don't push too hard. If your child seems "done" with the conversation or is becoming anxious, let the topic drop until later. And be honest about your feelings when you do talk about school. Some children worry that their parents will be sad or lonely when they are gone. When you say, "I am going to miss being with you in the morning, but it makes me happy to know you will be enjoying yourself at school," it lets him know that you will miss him but you are confident that school is a good place for him to be.
Check out the new environment.
MSGL's Parent Work Day is Saturday, August 16th. This is a great time to get familiar with the school and classroom environments and to be part of the school community. Children are encouraged to help clean lockers, pull weeds, and load and unload wheelbarrows full of mulch right alongside their parents and new classmates. And, each family member's time counts towards your volunteer hours requirement.
You will have another opportunity to get familiar with the school when your child attends her New Student Orientation visit on Monday, August 18th. This is her first opportunity to see her teachers and classmates in her new classroom. She can put her indoor shoes in her locker, locate her cubby and extra clothes box, and see where the bathroom is. The whole family can attend the Parent Orientation later that evening and maybe your child can give a tour of her new classroom.
Make new friends.
You will receive a class list via email in August. Consider contacting a few families on the list to set up a playdate before school starts. Even if you can't get together with any other families, you and your child can look over the names on the list together. You may discover that one of his classmates lives on your street or maybe someone has the same name as a sibling or a friend.
Help her dress for success.
Our Montessori classrooms are prepared to encourage your child's independence and you can help by providing your child with shoes and clothing that she can put on and take off by herself. Belts, suspenders, and jumpsuits look smart but they can be difficult for your child to use successfully. Provide your child a choice of clothing that allows her complete independence in her self-care routines. And please remember that preschool is a time to jump in and explore. Paint, snack, sand, and dirt from the garden can stain your child's clothing, so please send her to school in clothes that can stand to get dirty.
Plan a morning routine.
Now is a good time to do a mental run-through of your morning routine. Consider how much time your child needs to wake up, get dressed, and eat breakfast. Allow time for packing lunches, finding coats and shoes, and getting on the bike or in the car. Then add a few extra minutes. Parents and children who are not in a rush tend to have much better experiences at drop-off. Some families even do a few "practice runs" in the summer to see if they can get to school and work on time.
Create a goodbye routine.
Discuss with your child how you each want to say goodbye at drop-off. Some families say, "After you put on your inside shoes and put away your lunch box, we will walk to the classroom and I will give you three hugs and two kisses before I go to work." Some children like to wave to dad out the window and some parents leave their children with specific plans for what they will do after school. "Sonia is picking you up today" or "we are going to the Farmer's Market on our bikes after school today." Children have so little control over their daily lives that they appreciate at least knowing what is happening and when.
And while we're talking about goodbyes, let's take just a moment to consider the specter of separation anxiety.
What if my child cries when I walk away?
Separating from your child that first time can be heart-breaking, but remember - it's only for a few moments. The majority of children who are sad when they separate from their parents are able to calm themselves and choose an activity within a few minutes. If you have gone through the goodbye routine and are finding it hard to turn around and walk away, ask your teacher for help. Sometimes parents say, "Please help me. I need to leave." That is the teacher's sign that she needs to hold your child's hand or pick her up so that you can walk away. Teachers don't want to step in before you are ready to go but they are happy to help when you ask them.
The best thing you can do for your child at drop-off is to be consistent and walk away when you say you will. Lingering tends to just prolong the heartache for the parent and the child. The first few times you drop your child off may be difficult, but trust that with consistent repetition you and your child will develop a peaceful good-bye routine.
Talk with the teachers.
Talk with your child's teachers about how the adjustment period is going. The teachers help dozens of children adjust to school every year but this may be your first time. They expect you will have questions and concerns. Email is a great way to communicate with your child's teachers and all of the contact information is available on the classroom web page at Msgl.org.
Help your child talk about his day.
If this is the first time your child has been away from home you will no doubt be very eager to know what he did all day. Unfortunately, preschoolers often say they "did nothing" or "just played." A lot of things happened between the time you dropped him off that morning and when you picked him up several hours later, but he might not yet be able to give a sequential list of his activities. Here are some ideas to help your child tell you about his day.
Take care of yourself!
The best thing you can do during these last few weeks of summer is to give you and your child the gift of a regular bedtime that allows enough sleep to wake up refreshed and ready for the big days ahead. Fill up with a good breakfast each morning and be extra patient with your child and especially with yourself. Parenting preschoolers, like college students, is hard work and there is no right way to do it. Follow your heart and follow your child, and in sixteen years, or so, you will be very proud of the people you have both become.
The best kind of snow day is when you can actually play in the snow.
Last week provided a miserable welcome to the new semester. Snow, high winds, and bitter cold meant that the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette was in session for only 20 out of a possible 40 hours over four days. Our staff did its best to maintain communication with the families and those families were very understanding. There were, however, a few questions about how we respond to Indiana's volatile winter weather at MSGL.
The question of the week was "If the weather continues like this, can we expect to continue having so many delays and closures?" The short answer is, "yes." But how are decisions about school delays made? That's a longer answer.
I would have thought this to be a very elementary understanding. Doesn't everyone know when it's too dangerous to take the kids to school? But when I found myself working as MSGL's "Weather Delay Intern" last week, I discovered that many factors contribute to a closing or delay, and they are not always obvious to everyone.
First, there are no hard and fast rules for determining if conditions are too dangerous for school. Everything depends on timing. Temperatures below -12F are a general cut-off if people are going to be outside for more than a few minutes. However, if the roads are clear and the temperatures are on the rise at 8 a.m., then -12F might be acceptable at arrival. High winds could change that, of course. Roads that are clear now may not be clear when morning classes dismiss. Or they might be passable in town, but dangerous out in the country. And all of this has to be considered over the course of our 10-hour day.
MSGL can't follow the determinations of local school districts because they have special considerations - such as bus transportation and a large number of students who walk to school. Generally, MSGL can be in session more frequently than the public schools.
The weather is just one component of a weather-related school delay. Preparation of facilities and the safety of our staff are two others. And our families themselves are an important consideration.
Facilities: The parking lot and sidewalks must be clear of snow and ice before staff and families arrive. Our school is a small, not-for-profit, parent-owned school. A small core of people manage the day-to-day operations of the school and the needs of over 500 people. This is why we rely on a private company to clear the parking lot, sidewalks, and steps of snow and ice. That company serves several other businesses each day AND it needs two hours to clear MSGL after a snow or ice event. As an example, if the snow stops falling at 6 a.m. on a school day and we are third on the list for snow removal, school cannot open at 7:30. The ability of our snow removal contractor to clear our lot and paths before we arrive is a major determinant of our start time.
Cultural Considerations: Another little-known factor is our region's cultural relationship with winter weather. As one parent said, "I grew up in Vermont. We don't cancel school there." Indiana's threshold for tolerating winter weather might be a bit lower than other cold places because we don't see as many snowy days and our street departments are not equipped for a large quantity of snow on a regular basis. And because the majority of the West Lafayette community is made up of faculty or students from Purdue University, we also have a lot of families who come from places with absolutely no snow, ice, or cold temperatures. It can take these families a few snowy days to get the hang of dressing for the weather and driving in it. We are more comfortable with snow than Los Angeles, but less comfortable than Montpelier - and that makes a difference in how we respond to it.
Staff: Teachers and staff need to be able to travel safely and arrive at school before the children. Our staff are dedicated to their jobs and they want to be at school. While it's easy to imagine teachers being excited to have a snow day, the reality is that the majority of our teachers have school-aged children of their own. Just like MSGL families, the teachers have to scramble to get their children safely to school in case of a delay or to arrange other care if public schools cancel and MSGL is in session.
Many of our staff live outside of city limits and travel county roads to get to work, so their ability to arrive safely is always a top priority. Delaying the start of school allows them to get out of their driveways and travel potentially hazardous roads in daylight so they can be here when the families arrive. We could call on substitute teachers to work for staff who cannot make it to school, but our substitute teachers are also home with their children on these days. Operating without adequate staff is not an option so we need to be sure all of our teachers can get to school.
Forecasted weather: Conditions throughout the day, and not just at arrival, need to be considered to determine closures and delays. The weather may be clear at morning arrival, but if incoming snow and/or ice and wind threaten later in the day, staff and children could become stranded at school or out on the roads. The administration must take into account the anticipated timing of dangerous weather and sometimes cancel classes in advance of this weather (even if that bad weather never fully materializes.)
Our early arrival and after school programs are the first to be cancelled because MSGL is a school and not a daycare facility. We do offer before and after-care programs that can function as full-day care for families, but our primary function is that of a school. This means being open during class time from 8:30 - 3:00 takes priority over being open before and after class.
We understand that it is frustrating to wake up to a school delay or cancellation. Our Montessori parents have jobs, commitments, and plans and not being able to leave their children in our care causes real problems for them. That being said, MSGL is a parent-owned school. We were started by parents over 40 years ago and all current MSGL families are the current owners of the school. If you are reading this and you have children enrolled at our school, you are one of the owners of the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. With that ownership, come some responsibilities.
What can MSGL families do to help?
1. Stay informed - before school and during the day. We announce delays, cancellations, and early dismissals through many different sources. Here is a listing.
2. Offer help, if you can. If you have some time after bringing your child to school on a wintry day, you might:
If possible, we would prefer to be able to control the climate and prepare the outdoor environment as carefully as we prepare our students' learning environments. But the realities of winter weather require our staff and families to be vigilant, flexible, and patient with weather events - and the timing of those events - over which we have no control.
And if you, like me, are curious how the large, public school districts determine delays, this video from Louisville, KY is interesting.
Thanks for reading, ~Heather
What are "Indoor" Shoes?
MSGL students get to play outside every day that the weather allows. This means their shoes can get wet and muddy. To avoid tracking that dirt onto the carpet, we ask that you provide your child with one pair of shoes to wear inside the classroom. These shoes will stay at school.
Your child will probably change outdoor shoes with the seasons - from sandals to sneakers to snow boots - but indoor shoes can stay the same all year. Walking around in the classroom with bare feet is not allowed, so a comfy pair of shoes that the child enjoys wearing is a must.
Below are some good examples of indoor shoes that work well for the children. These styles of shoes keep a child's foot dry from spills, are non-slip, stay attached to the foot, and they allow the child to get them on and off by themselves.
Below are some examples of indoor shoes that DO NOT work well for the children. Slippers are not water-resistant and they can be difficult to walk in. If a child has not yet learned to tie, shoes with laces can be impossible for a child to get on and off by himself. Please save these types of shoes to wear at home.
If you want to be sure your child's belongings find their way home, you can order personalized labels for shoes, clothing, lunch boxes, and etc. online. This year, we are partnering with Mabel's Labels for a handy fundraiser. During August and September, 2015, you can buy labels and MSGL will receive a percentage of your purchase price.
Your thoughtfulness when shopping for indoor shoes will help put your child on the path to independence. Thank you!
Somdatta and Felicia of the Canoe Birch Class and Cathy and Mary of the All-Day Program invited the children to tell who and what they are thankful for and then wrote their answers on leaves. Each class has a paper tree by the door displaying the children's gratitude. As this Thanksgiving Day draws to a close I thought it would be nice to share the gratitude of these 3, 4, and 5-year-olds with all of you.
Enjoy your holiday weekend!
- Thanks to Jennifer Tyrrell for this guest post. Jennifer is a Montessori teacher who worked in the Spruce Toddler class at MSGL from 2003 - 2005.
One of the arguments I hear most often when I'm describing Montessori is that the open workspace—in particular the freedom to move around, to work where you do best for a specific task, and the ability to make a snack when you like—is not properly preparing children for the realities of life or the workforce: at some point they will have to learn to stay at their desk and do their work like everyone else. I think my husband's workplace shows the opposite to be true.
My husband Jeremiah took the family to visit his "office" in Cummins's COM building. Cummins is a well-known, large, international, Fortune 500 company that makes diesel engines, and they've recently built this COM building in their Columbus, Indiana, headquarters with a "collaborative workspace" design. They have converted several spaces in other buildings to this open style, as well. With this collaborative workspace, departments are located on the same floor, as much as possible. Though employees can work wherever they like on any floor, they are encouraged to work amongst their department's floor.
He showed us his locker (hook and cubby) with a couple drawers for his personal items and work laptop (each employee is given one as their primary work tool), and a thin cabinet for his coat and outerwear. Then we walked around a huge floor with areas that have a variety of tables, some standing height, some for chairs; other areas with couches and coffee tables; other more intimate areas with armchairs and footstools (Jeremy's favorite). A couple of kitchenettes with long counters and stools (snack tables) are located centrally with no walls enclosing them. There are cabinets (shelves) that divide some places and contain files and materials for everyone to access.
There are even treadmills with laptop spaces and hookups for those who need movement as they work (they are calibrated for walking, not running . . . we walk in the workplace :) There are walls to divide the elevators and small conference rooms (which can be used and reserved by any employee), but other than those areas, there are no rooms, no "offices", no cubicles, it is all shared space: managers working amongst underlings. It looks like, well . . . a grown-up Montessori classroom :)
They are doing this to encourage collaborative problem solving and to make the workday more pleasant so that Cummins continues to retain younger employees. Please share with anyone who questions the appropriateness of Montessori's open workspace. :)
You can read a news article about more of the company's redesigned workspaces see additional photos, here.
Photo courtesy of Lena Atkinson
What is Montessori?
Rather than explaining what Montessori is, I am offering an excerpt from an article that does a beautiful job of describing what Montessorians do. Maria Montessori's Decalogue is a set of 10 rules for adults working in a Montessori classroom. It is relevant to parents, grandparents, and caregivers of all types who strive to relate to children peacefully and respectfully in any environment.
I hope you will enjoy this expanded version of the Montessori Decalogue as written by The Mammolina Children's Home Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing, China.
The Montessori Decalogue
1. Never touch the child unless invited by him (in some way or another).
Unless there is a very strong reason to (like avoiding an accident, for example), one should never touch a child unless a child requests it. Picking up a child without the child's consent, even if in a playful manner, or grabbing her hand, pushing her, etc., should always be avoided. If children are engaged, looking at a book, working, playing, resting, the same principle applies. Children invite contact in many ways, and parents and adults in general, who work with children, know how to interpret the signs they send. It is important also to respect a child when she is angry and does not want to be touched or picked up.
2. Never speak ill of the child in his presence or absence.
Speaking ill of a child, or making negative comments about a child, either in the child's presence or absence, denotes lack of respect for the child. It also sets a frame of mind and denotes an attitude that is negative and conducive to confrontation—and not always open! Preconceived ideas often linger as negative thoughts and breed reactive behavior. If an adult falls into this trap, it is very easy for a lack of patience and negative attitudes to creep in and damage the relationship with the child.
3. Concentrate on strengthening and helping the development of what is good in the child, so that its presence may leave less and less space for what is negative.
If adults focus on negative behavior, children will feel inadequate. This will result in low self-esteem, and a self-fulfilling prophecy like behavioral patterns will take over. Negativity will become second nature. Instead, by focusing on what is positive, the child will feel safe and confident. Children are learning what is and is not acceptable behavior can and cannot be done, etc. They do not need punishments or rewards. Simply to be shown what is and is not acceptable, by adults that model appropriate behavior.
4. Be proactive in preparing the environment, take meticulous and constant care of it. Help the child establish constructive relations with it. Show the proper place where the means of development are kept and demonstrate their proper use.
If the child is presented with a prepared environment, there is little need for much more. Again, modeling appropriate behavior is essential. A child that is shown an orderly environment will likewise feel encouraged to keep it orderly. If a child has available manipulatives she can handle, play and work with, rather than things she cannot touch, she will feel at ease to explore the world around her. If objects are at reach, that the child may break or hurt herself with, she should be shown how to handle them, rather than told "don't touch!" A kitchen is a world full of wonder for a child! Cutting, cooking, stirring, pouring, etc., are all activities the child will want—and need!—to master in order to become independent. Include the child in as many activities as possible at home, from cleaning to cooking; there is enough to keep any child busy and engaged all day long.
5. Be ever ready to answer the call of the child who stands in need of you, and always listen and respond to the child who appeals to you.
There is nothing worse for a child than to feel insecure and ignored. Abandonment is a feeling no child should have to live with. "If a child asks for attention, then that child needs attention," stressed Montessorian Margaret Homfray. When people brush a child aside and say, "she just wants attention," that person is missing the point: a child only wants attention when she needs attention. Children who feel cared for and do not have to worry about being abandoned, even if for a short time, are far more likely to care for others and show concern for and trust others, than those who experience this sort of "cold shoulder" treatment. Also, "timeout" and "go to your room and stay there" approaches are also expressions of abandonment.
6. Respect the child who makes a mistake and can then or later correct it herself, but stop firmly and immediately any misuse of the environment and any action which endangers the child, its own development or that of others.
Avoid rushing to correct mistakes a child has committed. Children are learning to cope and function. They will persist and practice to their heart's content whatever skill they need to acquire, until they master it. If a child starts throwing things around and disrespecting the environment, by all means, stop her. Yet, explain why you had to stop her. Reason and listen to what the child may have to say. Maria Montessori said that "a child's first tantrums are the first ills of her soul." There is always a reason for everything. Try to bring the reason to light. Punishing, isolating the child, etc., will only feed her pain, and burry deep those reasons—she will learn to hide rather than communicate.
7. Respect the child who takes a rest or watches others working or ponders over what she herself has done or will do. Neither call her nor force her to other forms of activity.
A child that is idle is often not idle at all… Children need to be given space to find what it is they are interested in and want to do. Once they do, they pursue their interests with unrestrained passion and perseverance! A child that is observing other children or adults is also learning. If the child is resting, she is not being lazy and doing nothing just lying there—she is most probably processing information, observing, reflecting on something she did, or saw, or is planning on doing.
8. Help those who are in search of activity and cannot find it.
Be sensitive to the needs of the child including differentiating when apparent inactivity is inner activity, or in contrast, a child is simply lost. A child in search of activity and unable to find it is usually restless. If sitting or lying down, it can be noticed that she is not "engaged;" she is not resting, but simply lost and prostrated. There is a thin line that separates these two worlds. It is the adult's responsibility to observe carefully and find out the signs—often very different from child to child—that can reveal what the child is experiencing. Abandonment differs from rest and contemplation.
9. Be untiring in repeating presentations to the child who refused them earlier, in helping the child to acquire what is not yet her own and to overcome imperfections. Do this by animating the environment, with care, with purposive restraint and silence, with mild words and loving presence. Make your ready presence felt to the child who searches and hide from the child who has found.
A child may need to be shown the right way to do something, say a word, express her feelings or acquire any sort of new skill, many, many times. One should never grow tired of repeating it, such as reading the same bedtime story or singing the same jingle. Children seek perfection in all they do until they reach a level which meets their needs (not what the adult may think "perfect" is, or means.) To be always available but not intrusive is an art. When a child needs help, she will ask for it. When a skill has been acquired and the child no longer needs assistance, adults should respect the child's new acquired or reached level of independence.
10. Always treat the child with the best of good manners and offer her the best you have in yourself and at your disposal.
Children who are respected will learn to respect others. Giving the child the best one has to give helps the child learn that you are someone she can count on, and teaches her to also give others the best she has to give. It is important the way Montessori puts it, "the best you have in yourself," as if to say, always reach higher, but do not feel dismayed if you fall short, and "the best" that you can give is not the best you think or know you should give. If your best manners are not always what they should be—a common feeling parents harbor when children seem to be pushing their patience beyond the limits, do not lose heart. The way Dr. Montessori put it, is basically this: have realistic expectations towards the child, and yourself too. Give the best you have to give, but don't feel guilty if you fall short. Simply keep striving to improve and always do your best. If you commit a mistake, giving the child your best may well be recognizing it and apologizing. "Amy, Mommy got upset and shouted. That was not nice of me. I am sorry." Children also need to recognize mistakes, learn to apologize, and that parents are not always perfect.
These are basic principles. What Montessori strives for is to protect the child from all sorts of negative influences that can create deviations in the child's spirit and psyche. To preserve the natural curiosity of the child, help her find her interests, protect her passion for learning, foster it and let it grow in a healthy way. In this way, the child can contribute her best to society. This is conducive to world peace, as Dr. Montessori envisioned it, and Montessorians believe is possible. It takes passion, it takes commitment, and it takes working together.
- Excerpted from Montessori: Committed People with a Passion for Children by the Mammolina Children's Home Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing, China.
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Saint Francis Defeats the Antichrist
Cristóbal de Villalpando, Mexican, c. 1649 - 1714
Made in Mexico City, Mexico, North and Central America
Made for Convento de San Francisco, Santiago de los Caballeros (present-day Antigua), Guatemala, North and Central America
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Composition: 65 3/8 × 60 3/4 inches (166.1 × 154.3 cm)Curatorial Department:
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This painting is one of seventeen surviving canvases from a series of forty-nine devoted to the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, commissioned in 1691 from Cristóbal de Villalpando—the preeminent artist of colonial Mexico—for the Franciscan convent in Antigua, Guatemala. In this scene Francis thrusts a sword into the Antichrist's chest as the prophet Elijah, directly behind the saint, charges brandishing a flaming sword. The Antichrist's supporters, grouped at the right, recoil in horror. The top of the composition, trimmed off sometime in the painting's history, showed a battle between angels and demons, whose legs are still visible.
This violent confrontation is not described in any of the biographies of the famously peaceful saint. It was likely devised by the artist with the guidance of his Franciscan patrons, making it the earliest known example of this unorthodox iconography, which is found only in Mexico. The powerful narrative in this painting underscores Villalpando's flair for the type of dramatic composition that epitomizes the Baroque era.
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ProvenanceConvento de San Francisco, Santiago de los Caballeros (now Antigua), Guatemala, until about 1773 [1]; Convento de San Francisco, Guatemala City, about 1773, possibly until 1917 or 1918 [2]. John Hampton Hickman III (d. 1997), Sweet Briar Farm, Geneseo, NY, purchased in the 1980s? [3]; his estate; sold through ZZ Importers, Inc., East Meadow, NY, as agent for the heirs, Scott Mitchell, Barbara Hickman, and John Hampton Hickman IV, to Barbara Insalaco, Nantucket, MA, February 12, 1998 [4]; sold by Barbara and Dennis Insalaco (dealer), Nantucket, MA, to PMA, March 19, 2008. 1. The painting was commissioned as part of a series of forty-nine canvases for the cloister of the convent. 2. Soon after a 1773 earthquake the cycle of paintings was moved to the new Franciscan convent in Guatemala City (Guatemala City was officially established as the new capital of Guatemala in 1776). When the convent was closed in 1873, the paintings were moved to the sacristy and choir of the church (some probably left the collection at that time). In 1917 and 1918 most of the remaining Villalpando paintings were destroyed by earthquakes; however, fourteen of the series still survive in Guatemala (see Luis Luján Muñoz, La Pintura de Cristóbal de Villalpando en Guatemala, Guatemala City, 1983, p. 8; Luis Luján Muñoz, "Nueva Información Sobre la Pintura de Cristóbal de Villalpando en Guatemala," Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, no. 57, 1986, pp. 122-23; Juana Haces Gutiérrez, et al., Cristóbal de Villalpando, ca. 1649-1714: Catálogo Razonado, Mexico City, 1997, p. 386). 3. Hickman purchased the Sweet Briar property in 1979. Hickman's son John Hampton Hickman IV believes that his father purchased the painting in Toronto, probably in the 1980's. After the death of John Hampton Hickman III on February 22, 1997, part of the mansion's furnishings and art collection were sold at an auction at Sweet Briar on October 25 and 26, 1997; however, this painting remained on the estate. 4. Copy of sales agreement in curatorial file. Scott Mitchell and John Hampton Hickman IV are sons of John Hampton Hickman III. Barbara Hickman is his ex-wife. Scott Mitchell was president of an entity called Sweet Briar Corporation, which contracted with ZZ Importers to sell the contents of the estate.
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Laws enacted in 1854 in the state legislature provided for the foundation of local school districts and made public education a reality in the state of Texas. Education in Texas suffered during the Civil War and the Reconstruction which followed. Efforts were made to improve the status of public education during the latter part of the 19th century, and the growth and development of Texas' public schools increased with the coming of the 20th century.
Local taxation for rural schools increased in the 20th century, and small rural schools began consolidating into districts. In 1915, Texas passed a compulsory attendance law, and in 1918, the legislature approved the use of free textbooks in public schools.
In the early 1900s, Bexar County was still primarily in rural area, and many of the districts in the northwest county consisted of just one school. This situation would persist, with little change, for the first half of the 20th century.
1949: The birth of Northside ISD
In 1949, 12 rural schools joined together to form Northside Consolidated School District. Those schools were Leon Springs, Los Reyes, Helotes, Locke Hill, Leon Valley, San Antonio Heights, Lockhart, Mackey, Clifton, Evers, Hoffman, and Culebra. Enrollment in that first year was 823 students. H.M. Biggers was named superintendent of the new district, and construction began on Northside High School (Northside High School was renamed John Marshall High School in 1960). In 1955, the district became Northside Independent School District.
The year 1955 is also the year in which the school board approved the integration of Northside High School, allowing African American students to attend. One year later, in 1956, Northside began a program of building which has continued to this day, with Northside Junior High (renamed Sul Ross Middle School in 1960) and Northside Elementary (now Colby Glass Elementary).


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On his last night as the longest-serving keeper at the National Zoo, David S. Kessler checks and rechecks the locks on the enclosures in the Small Mammal House. He collects his farewell gifts and mementos and softly narrates to himself what needs to be done. "Okay, lights out here, good. Hi, babies!" he says to Reuben and Jolla, the howler monkey couple. "Aagh, g'night, sweetheart. Did I wake you up? I'm sorry." He checks the seven timers on the lights, saying "timer" aloud at each. He's not thinking, he says, about how this January night is the last time after 39 years, two-thirds of his life, at the zoo. Now Gus the rock hyrax — who looks like a four-pound guinea pig but is more closely related to the elephant — catches his attention in the dark. It's as if the little guy knows something is up.
Considering the personal magnitude of the occasion, everything is going fine as Kessler prepares to walk away from the animals who he says rescued him, who might just have saved his sanity. "Gus is sticking his head out — " Kessler notes, then stops. He sobs once, his knees buckle, and he drops face-down on the floor of his House.
Earlier in the day, Kessler talked about his career. "I like to work with animals that nobody thinks about," he said. Small mammals, it's true, are not headliners. Hey, kids, let's go see the shrews! In the past few years, Kessler has been lavishing his attention on the naked mole rat, an animal that resembles a flaccid penis with buck teeth. He always has a favorite weirdo. He has been the red panda guy, the house shrew guy, the Prevost's squirrel guy and the moonrat guy. Moonrats have no natural predators, Kessler says with admiration and a little pride, because they smell so bad.
There aren't a lot of jobs like zookeeper. Technically, Kessler's job has been biologist, but the caretaking — the keeping — is what he loves best.
"It's the care of living things. To keep, that's a beautiful thing. The longer you watch an animal or a person just doing their thing, the more you feel connected to them."
A keeper feeds the animals and mucks out their enclosures, but the real work is observation, watching their bodies and behavior closely for subtle changes that mean something is wrong. And figuring out how to fix it.
Take the lemurs, smallish primates with doglike faces, some of the most social creatures in the Small Mammal House. Cortes and Coronado are recent acquisitions — Kessler drove them down from the Bronx Zoo in his Honda Civic— who are being carefully phased in with Molly, who has been the sole lemur at the Small Mammal House since her mate died. The keepers noticed the new lemurs were keeping low to the ground, un-lemurlike behavior. Lemurs are at home in treetops, and the damp ground was irritating one of Cortes's paws. Perhaps Molly was being territorial. They would wait and see, maybe give Molly more attention. And keep watching.
Kessler and his colleagues would eventually determine Molly wasn't behaving aggressively toward the other two lemurs. A volunteer noticed it was the rock hyraxes antagonizing Cortes and Coronado. The rock hyraxes were moved to a different exhibit and, voilà, the lemurs returned to the trees.
Lemurs are comparatively easy to read. You can spend less than half an hour watching Molly and feel as if you almost understand her thought process. You can become so absorbed you forget who and what you are, and that you are watching. It can become like reading a novel, the closest humans can get to having someone else's consciousness for a change.
It took a year and a half in the reptile house, but eventually Kessler could tell when something was wrong with a snake.
He's about average height, and he has had a beard most of his 59 years, but not now. He wears khakis and polos to work, with big rubber boots, disposable gloves and face masks. Primates can pass each other disease easily, he says. A keeper's herpes cold sore can kill a gorilla.
In conversation, Kessler tosses out bits of philosophy, science, novels, plays — knowledge you should have, if you had time to read, and he acts as if you probably know them, too.
He knows each of the hundred-odd residents of the Small Mammal House by their six-digit reference number. He has also published or co-written about a dozen research papers. Written three unpublished novels. He once went on a radio show to compose sonnets on demand. He mentors high school students and oversees their research projects. Every year Kessler takes off work to see as many shows in the Capital Fringe Festival as possible, since they often run past midnight and his work would start at 6:30 a.m. He spends an hour a day on the treadmill. He lives in Silver Spring and has been married for 30 years — he still writes his wife, Patricia, sonnets. He smiles when he happens upon a picture of her unexpectedly. They have a grown son, Ben, who co-owns an urban farming company in Charlottesville.
When friends asked, he officiated their 2006 wedding, working with them to write a personalized service, complete with sermon. Kessler took lessons from an actor friend on how not to cry. He always cried at weddings but didn't want to distract while performing one. He was asked to officiate another wedding in Rockville, even though he was racing to New Jersey and back to be with his dying father. His father died. Kessler made the arrangements so his mother and sisters wouldn't have to, then drove from New Jersey to the rehearsal dinner that night. When another friend needed him to, he was the one to officially identify her husband's body.
For a while he fronted a calypso-reggae band. He is universally beloved among colleagues and friends — suspiciously so, if you are a person suspicious of that sort of thing.
Kessler's last "Meet a Mammal" demonstration for zoogoers, on his last day at work, was attended by Linda Hopkins, a zoo electrician who'd known him 11 years and brought him a bottle of wine, and Susie Kane, who had never met him, but she had heard he was leaving, and in 2005 he had kindly answered her e-mailed question about building a naked mole rat habitat for her dorm room.
In December, Scientific American declared the naked mole rat Vertebrate of the Year. He is a happy man who's leaving the job he loves.
He's retiring young because of his psoriatic arthritis. It's much better these days — he gets injections of monoclonal antibodies. But it is progressive. "I only have so much health left," he says, and zookeeping is physically taxing. He wants to travel with his wife, and write.
A loved one once told him that he would probably be happier as a hermit. He wasn't insulted.
"I'm more comfortable by myself and with animals than I am with people," he says. "I don't feel like I fit around people." Around people, he is giving a sort of performance. "But an honest performance." Sometimes he loves it, performing, fronting a band, officiating at weddings. "There's tension, but fun tension, like scary movies. I like the attention and the tension."
So ask to watch him work, ask him to ignore you, and it doesn't work. That's a private part of him, reserved for himself and the animals. He'll start offering you books or telling you stories, and if you patiently sit around, pretending to use a computer in his office until he forgets you're there, he will not forget you're there. He will grow slightly agitated and need some alone time with the lemurs after you're gone.
His last day is a whirl of well-wishers, friends, leftover food from the party the day before, paperwork, gifts, tears and hugs. "I don't like to be touched," he says to one hugger, "but being hugged is fine."
He hadn't been assigned to do the lines that morning — the shift that starts before sunrise, when the animals get their breakfast and their enclosures are cleaned out. He had e-mails to read, but people kept coming by for hugs and predicting he'll be back. He says no, never coming back. He seems to mean it.
Even friends who aren't physically present are distracting him. "Happy birthday to you," he sings into a friend's voice mail, gargling the last line. "Happy Jimmy Page's birthday, happy your birthday, happy your aunt's birthday yesterday." He attends to the needs of the humans for hours, their need to say goodbye, to say they would miss him. He almost always has a specific memory or thought for each, as he thanks them and assures them he won't miss this place and, after some time, they won't miss him.
He's proudest of his work with William the gibbon in 1978. William was a juvenile living with his parents when he got stuck in the enclosure and broke his arm. He was in the hospital so long — so long in the company of humans — that his parents rejected him when he got back. And because his hospital experience was scary and painful, people now made William fearful and angry. He was kept out of the exhibit for a while, off by himself.
Kessler sat in his enclosure each day, doing nothing except being nonthreatening. No mask, no gloves. Back then, this was acceptable zookeeper behavior — interaction not initiated or welcomed by the animal.
William would brachiate around in the farthest corner from Kessler, swinging limb to limb, elaborately ignoring the 130-pound human in the room. Over the course of a week, William came closer and closer, until his feet would brush his keeper's head as he swung by. Eventually he would put his head on Kessler's sweatshirt and go to sleep. There's a picture with William's arms around Kessler's head.
One thing he will miss from the zoo: watching the howler monkeys eat. Jolla likes beets but not the squiggly end of the taproot. She will pick it up, put it down, eat something else, return as if to see if the bit she doesn't like is still there. Maybe it got better! You can learn so much about optimism from her, Kessler says. "People tell me she's just stupid," he says, shaking his head at that human stupidity.
Twelve years ago, Kessler walked with a cane, couldn't turn his head and could sleep only an hour and a half at a time because of his arthritis.
Thirty-six years ago he called his psychiatrist to say he had everything ready to commit a tidy, no-fuss suicide, just a hose and towels in a car exhaust pipe. His doctor had him hospitalized for four days.
Then, at 27, he taught himself to be happy. "You learn from evolution, from animals. If you have a strategy that doesn't work, change your strategy."
His new strategy was to avoid introspection. Completely. "Working with animals made me start thinking about other things more. And when I was able to start thinking about other animals more, I was able to include humans in that group." Understanding William the gibbon, for example, and building his trust, was a big "breakthrough with myself."
"The real change was Patricia," he says. "But I probably couldn't be with her if I hadn't been working with animals."
According to dominant psychology and philosophy, introspection is the key to living right. But Kessler's unexamined life is the only kind he wants to live.
For obvious reasons, it's difficult for him to explain how he stopped being introspective. Working with animals is one way, but there were others. When he worked alone off-exhibit, he narrated his novels in his head. He noticed that closing certain doors in the building was musical, producing two notes, a seventh interval: the first two notes of a song from "West Side Story": "Somewhere."
Sometimes he needs to go alone to see if Molly wants a belly rub. Lemurs and Reuben the howler are the only ones in the Small Mammal House to much enjoy the touch of a human. But lemurs are not pets. They did not evolve to be companions for humans, to cheer us up or give us something to love. Molly indicates if she wants a belly rub, not unlike a dog, and a keeper may administer it, but the belly rub is entirely for the animal. That's important to Kessler.
It turns out Molly wants a belly rub on Kessler's last day, after he has finally gotten rid of all the people and sneaks off to see her.
Afterward, he keeps putting off leaving, until his shift stretches to 11 hours. And because the rock hyraxes have been moved away from the lemurs they were scaring, here's Gus, too present-focused to understand "goodbye" but seeming to say goodbye, popping his head up, watching the keeper leave for the last time, and the keeper — finished with crying, hugs and goodbyes with people — goes down, face first.
Suzanne Hough, the volunteer coordinator, is leaving with him, and she joins him on the floor. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he says. "No. No, no, it's okay."
After a moment, Hough speaks. "The floor can be tricky this time of night," she says, generously. She helps him up. He's fine, as far as he lets anyone know.
Moments later he is calm again, and performing. "Well, that was a surprise!" he says breezily. Hough and Kessler walk out into the cold night.
Inside the House, the hundred-odd residents have no sense that their time as keepers of David S. Kessler has come to an end.
Rachel Manteuffel is an editorial aide in the Editorial Department. To comment on this story, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or visit washingtonpost.com/magazine.


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Earlier (2-December-2010 post), you may remember this jester writing about Columbus' Polish roots. This was from AOL News reporting on a press release put out by the researcher/author Manuel Rosa here. Columbus' Polish father, Wladislaw III reigned from 1434-1444. You can find many of the seals of the Polish Kings at AGAD . From another blog (Never Yet Melted), which did a very nice review of the story, one of the arguments (besides genealogy, access to royalty, etc.) included a comparison of heraldic seals.
At the left is the actual seal. Only by close examination of the image can I make out the Royal Eagle (of Poland) in upper left quad of the shield and a horse-figure in upper right quad. I cannot quite tease the details for the two lower quadrants from the seal image.
If you compare to Columbus' (aka Cristobal Colon) heraldic symbol, you can see four quadrants, but I cannot see a resemblance to Wladyslaw III's seal. A recreation of Wladylsaw III's seal is here. This bears 4 of 7 elements from his father's seal. Interesting is that two of the remaining three elements appear in Columbus's heraldic symbol (if we allow the horizontal bars are represented by the side-wise anchors in Columbus' symbol).
Stanczyk will just have to wait for the book to come out (in English) or the National Geographic video to make up his mind in total on this matter. The book (in Spanish) can be purchased from Amazon. I hope an English translation is forthcoming. The comments so far of those who read the Spanish book say the Rosa arguments are persuasive and compelling.


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In math and physics, chaos theory deals with the notion that apparently random phenomena in fact have underlying order. In Dulcy and Ted Mahar's much admired garden in Portland, Oregon, it's the same. Dulcy's "creative chaos" in the couple's half-acre-plus garden has in fact evolved with much tender tweaking behind the imposing Georgian Colonial home they bought 22 years ago, mainly for its expansive yard. Her approach: "I break the rules. I go buy things because I fall in love with a plant, and then I walk around until I find a place to put it."
The result is more organized than you'd guess: The ravishing old-fashioned garden shows an English influence in its cottagey borders of perennials. Surrounded by trees, it's a country garden in the city, a creation that pays homage to gardens the Mahars have visited in England and France.
"I love the creative process," says Dulcy. "I'm not artistic, in that I can't produce a painting, but gardening is so forgiving of mistakes. If you make them, they are easy to erase. It provides a way of expressing yourself, of surrounding yourself with beauty. Nature gives you a direct path to that. Plus, it's a habit that's nonaddictive, doesn't make you gain weight, and doesn't get you thrown in jail."
The Mahars' garden focuses less on flowers than on foliage, mostly in the form of shrubs and ornamental trees. Dulcy loves the lush look that foliage gives and the way it ties things together. There are several beguiling little spaces in the garden where one could write a love letter or have a good cry: a pond, a woodland area, a fire pit, several pathways, a greenhouse, and even a pet cemetery. There's also a knot garden,where boxwood marches in a symmetrical design. "It's a touch of formality among the chaos of unrestrained plants," Dulcy notes, "and no-care except for pruning."
In the land of Mahar, lightheartedness rules. In fact, the animal-loving couple's mutt, Ernie, won their hearts via a "letter" ghostwritten by a veterinarian friend. "I love whimsy, and I collect things," Dulcy says. "Sometimes I fear I'm over the top. Your taste changes over the years. I started out folksy, then I wanted to be more sophisticated, and now I've gone back to what I like, even if it's not sophisticated." A recovering gnome addict ("they were multiplying dangerously"), Dulcy puts her tongue in cheek as she currently "horrifies" the local gardening community with a flock of pink plastic flamingos that visitors suddenly come upon in a secluded shady spot.
Dulcy, who has a day job at a federal agency, is also well-known in Portland for the witty gardening column she has been writing for The Oregonian for 20 years. (She's never missed a week, even while living with cancer for the last seven years.) Hand-watering is as therapeutic for her as chemo. "There's a peace you get by putting your mind in neutral while you're still doing something," she says. Ted, who is a retired newspaper reporter and film critic, is not a gardener, but, says Dulcy, "never asks how much it costs or where I'll put it. He's very faithful about going with me to nurseries, especially if they have a resident dog or cat."
Lately, after a subtle-hued period, Dulcy has fallen back in love with color, inserting flowers that provide it--"hydrangeas, iris, lilies, and dahlias, which I used to think of as old-lady plants. Now that I'm an old lady, I like them just fine!"
A brief flirtation with white flowers didn't blossom into a romance. She says, "I tried a white garden, but it didn't work very well because I found that white needs to be bracketed by lots of green. There are so many shades of white, and the birds helped me plant it, and suddenly I had pink things in it."
Dulcy has changed her palette many times. "I started out with more primary colors," she recalls, "and now I'm striving for the best of both worlds--a pastel garden in spring turning to a hotter colored garden in late summer and fall. That can work here because we have such a long season.
"When I go to someone else's garden, I often wonder why I've done what I've done, but I think at times a somewhat limited palette is more restful." Among her many favorite flowers are the 'Ann Folker' hardy geranium, for the way "she embroiders herself among other plants," and the 'Sally Holmes' rose. Dulcy says, "Sally is a big voluptuous girl who repeat- blooms with trusses of white single-petaled roses that have a flush of cameo pink. You can stick her in the middle of a crowded border, and she still won't get black spot."
Like many gardeners, Dulcy uses trial, error, and epiphany, looking down on her garden from her house to see an X-ray of its bones. Of a circle centered on an urn, she says, "When we put stones around the edge to make it more important, it was interesting how just the addition of paving changed it."
The couple's garden can be read not only as an autobiography but also as a love story--for nature, for life, for each other. While the arbor Dulcy ordered was a mistake because it came twice as wide as expected, it provided a wonderful excuse to plant vines, she says. "It became a cave, a grotto. In the evening, Ted and I sit in there with a glass of sherry and look out at the vegetable garden. You can imagine you're in Provence--the farmer and his wife."
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A gravel path, shaded by a crape myrtle, leads to the shed. In the vegetable garden, Dulcy Mahar grows salad makings interspersed with annuals like poppies, calendula, and nasturtiums, a technique she learned touring gardens in France.
A rustic sign is used for tours.
Clematis integrifolia adds oomph.
Feathery spirea is pretty in pink.
Astrantia major 'Alba' is as shy and leggy as a preteen about to bloom.
'Mary Rose' thrives in the garden. Dulcy has a love-hate affair with the heavy clay soil of the Northwest, which gets waterlogged but is full of nutrients.
A rather regal rabbit stands sentinel in front of the arbor.
Dahlias--"old-lady flowers"--are among Dulcy's faves.
A sundial never fails to lend a feeling of antiquity.
Known to attract butterflies and resist deer, spiky purple Allium christophii is the punk rock star of the garden.
The arbor is one of Dulcy's divine mistakes. When it came, it was much bigger than she expected. Now secluded with vines, it has become a treasured place where she and Ted sip sherry at eventide. The Japanese lantern adds an air of mystery.
Behind the couple's Georgian Colonial home, foliage provides texture and flowers color. Dulcy uses the balcony overlooking the garden and pond to survey her handiwork.
Twin columns define a sitting area paved with precast cobblestones. The serene watery blue of slatted wooden chairs and a large planter visually cool the heat of a fire pit.
The fish is one of many accents in the garden, including birdhouses, metal gates with a folk-art look, and a hand-lettered sign for "Doug's Vegetable Garden." The sign is recognition of "Doug, the Wonder Guy," the gardener Dulcy has immortalized in her garden column.
Shiny objects draw the gaze; the aptly named gazing ball is among many accents the Mahars use to add visual interest.
Crustiness in the texture of this classical finial contrasts with the smoothness of glazed pots.
Foliage is as important as flowers in the Mahar garden, as this serene and sculptural grouping proves.
Ted and Dulcy Mahar with their cat Orville, who has a twin, Wilbur.


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