Quote #11.

This week's quote...

To be a person is to have a story to tell. –Isak Dinesen

This one completely appeals to me. There are so many ways one can look at this…as a call to write your own story, to chart your own course…as motivation to document your life, to leave a chronicle for later generations…as an appeal to share your story with others, to make a difference. I strive to do all three. Through my life choices, I’m endeavoring to create the life I want for myself and my family. In this, I’m constantly recording that life…for my own memory and for others to look back on. (I think, by the way, that this is particularly worthwhile in two ways…it provides an account of what happened such that it could possibly be learned from (like history)…and it is evidence to my boys that their actions and lives have already been and continue to be momentous to me.) Finally, I work on sharing the lessons I’ve learned with others…through the Good Grief Blog I started, through being an active part of my homeschooling group, through homeschooling, itself, and through so much more. So. Yes, I have a story to tell.

Incidentally, I finally decided on a name for my country (remember that project the boys and I are working on?). My country will be The Supreme Queendom of Storia. “Queendom” because I think it only fair that it not be a “kingdom.” “Supreme” because, well, why not? And “Storia” because of this very quote and line of thought. Cool, eh? I’m stoked.

Comments

[nan]

Good country name! What did the boys pick?