Sallie Schaaf Borrink
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Some thoughts after watching a YouTuber trying to encourage others by talking about the love of God, prayer, faith, etc. while being unwilling to name the name of Jesus.
Mentioned in the chat:
This chat is in the playlist below under “His Name Is Jesus. Use It.”
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This is an introduction to the Gifted, 2e, and Highly Sensitive Playlist I’ve created. I explain why I created this playlist and the kinds of topics I will be covering.
You will find the chat below under the title “Gifted, 2e, and Highly Sensitive Playlist Introduction.”
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This playlist features chats and posts about gifted, twice-exceptional (2e), and highly sensitive people. Although it includes content about both children and adults, the emphasis is on parenting gifted/2e children.
This will be a growing playlist. I hope you find it encouraging and helpful.
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Copywork is a fantastic way for children to practice a number of writing skills. I’ve taken the concept of copywork in a bit of a different direction by offering a collection of fun facts about a wide variety of interesting subjects children enjoy.
Each worksheet present the child with a fascinating fact coupled with a memorable graphic. All of the copywork topics below are also available in Fun Fact Cards in my learning shop.
I’ve grouped them together below as:
I invite you to see all of the topics below. Click on any cover to see more details and sample pages in my shop.
Enjoy practicing handwriting with themes such as Apples, Squirrels, Pumpkins, and the classic Robert Louis Stevenson poem “Autumn Fires.”
Have fun with Thanksgiving, Christmas Around the World, and Christmas holiday themes.
Your child will enjoy learning about these fascinating creatures each day while practicing handwriting. These sets include Butterfly, Birds, and Insects & Bugs.
Learn about fascinating creatures from around the world while doing handwriting practice each day. These include Penguins, Reptiles, Amphibians, and the unique Animals of Africa.
The popular topics of Trees, Farm, and Flowers & Plants will help your children learn about things that grow while doing handwriting.
If you asked children to name some of their favorite science topics, these would be sure to be on the list. Don’t miss out on Weather, Rocks & Minerals, and Solar System!
Learn about the unique countries of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico while doing copywork.
Explore some of the most interesting places on Earth including the Oceans, the Arctic, and Antarctica.
More history topics that will be fun for your children. These include U.S. Presidents, Women’s History Month, and Chinese New Year.
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There is a “tradwife” movement growing in influence online that is anti-feminism. One could also argue that aspects of it are also anti-Biblical marriage. Any movement that sets men and women in opposition to each other is wrong.
This chat is called “The Tradwife and Anti-Feminism Movement” in the playlist below.
Here are the links mentioned in the chat.
Here is the playlist.
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This is a collection of chats and audio posts about topics related to the Christian Faith.
It will continue to grow in the months ahead. I hope you find it encouraging and helpful.
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I needed something for Linux to help me organize not only my photos, but also my clip art and other images. I can’t even imagine how many I have of each on my computer. I have:
I poked around online to find the best option and am very happy with gThumb. Like much of what is available for Linux, it is free and open source.
This is how gThumb is described on the gnome wiki page:
gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.
gThumb is available for most Linux distributions, just do a search for gthumb in the package manager.
It is just what I needed! The best part is the option for creating catalogs of collections. I can put images from any folder in there. So for example, I have catalogs for:
I also set up catalogs for flowers including:
Those images can be from any source in my Pictures folder. For example, the sets that I get from The Graphics Fairy have a wide variety of images. There are birds and flowers in many of them. Now I can gather them into catalogs and easily see what I have when I’m looking for something specific (like a bird). The same goes with people, seasonal scenes, etc.
gThumb also has the ability to edit photos and images. I haven’t worked with it very much yet so I don’t have any way of comparing it to other programs. But for my purposes, it seems more than adequate.
If you are looking for something similar to use on Linux, I encourage you to check out gThumb and see if it will meet your needs.
(P.S. I started a Linux category so I can start sharing all of the different programs I’m using.)
