This also means that we will have to make budget cuts (now if only we could get the god damned government to do the same!). One of our largest expenses is Montessori school for our oldest son. We have loved having him there but we think that we will like having him at home even more. Yes, we are going to homeschool our kids. Seems crazy to many I am sure  but we really feel that this is the right answer for our family. Public school sucks and private school, besides being hideously expensive, is really just a better version of public schooling. The attitude that it is all about preparing for college, preparing to become a cog in the machine, is not what we are after. I want my kids to learn to learn, love to learn, and not feel that their path forward is riding the rails of cookie-cutter American success. So look for more home schooling (unschooling?) blogging.

My last bit is about food. I love food. I love cooking it, reading about it, watching it being made/eaten, and eating it myself. I have spent the last 12 years exploring food primarily through the wealth of great restaurants that we have here in the Northern Virginia area (only secondarily via my whim driven dabbling in cooking). Eating out is expensive. A tighter budget means less eating out. Which also means more eating at home. More cooking, more exploration, more getting my hands in it and my head around it. I am really loving this aspect of being “Mr. Mom”. I have been baking (cookies, bread, pizza), curing meat, creating my own “recipes”, mixing, matching, and melding flavors, all while providing a meal for my family. My freezers are full of stock, bones, chunks, cubes, sausage, etc… (all examples of meat thrift a concept seemingly lost in this age of cheap meat). I definitely want to blog more about this. Maybe when the kids are a bit older I can even start a new career in food.

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What would we have in this world without stars? Not much, some gases, maybe… We can ponder life without stars, yet our very pondering would be absent if it were not for the stars. Metal, silicon, complex chains of protein and amino acid — all thanks to the stars. The Stars might be our destination but what is our starting point?

The stars they do not worry or care, they just are. We on the other hand, hurry, hurry, to the next banality. Missing our chance at stardom. So disconnected are we, that we overload the beauty that is a star with the ultimate in banality: a person, idolized, captured on film, enshrined by the masses into the collective conscious. Hardly a star, hardly even human. We can not worship stars, of any kind. This is folly. Worship is folly. Our lot is to cast about looking for the spark of happiness, the thing that makes us continue. That might even make us feel fulfilled. Stars, they just do not care. Stars just are.

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