Love Letters from a Poet

School is one option for education, homeschooling is the second, and unschooling is the third. Many parents are frustrated by the school system, perhaps because of bullying, crowded classrooms, and outdated, dull, online courses. Disengaged learners that have no say in their coerced curriculum tend to act out, tune out, or drop out. Education must change and unschooling is the fastest-growing alternative method of learning. Two decades ago, students registered with their local school based on their house address. Now, with the internet, students are borderless. Learning can occur anywhere, anytime, anyway and from anyone-including self-taught. Self-directing their education, unschoolers learn through: • Play • Projects • Reading • Volunteering • Video games • Sports • Mentorship • Travel • Life This book explores the path of 30 unschooled children who self-directed all or part of their education and were accepted by universities, colleges, and other postsecondary schools. Most have already graduated. What children need most are close relationships-parents, teachers, siblings, relatives, coaches, and mentors within a wider community, not just within an institutional school. Educational content is everywhere. Caring relationships are not. Families that embrace unschooling do not have to choose between a quality education and a relaxed, connected family lifestyle. They can have both.

Sacred sexuality can take us out of our heads and into the joyful reality of the present moment and the deepest levels of our own being. The poems in these volumes are like windows into this world of inner sensual experience. They show us what lovemaking can be-a sacred practice opening us to personal renewal and spiritual well-being. Most religious traditions consider the body to be a temple, radiant, if we would only realize it, with the divine presence of our innermost self. This inner reality is never separate from either the divine or from all of nature. What we seek we already possess within and can never lose. Yet most of us cut ourselves off from the divine source by getting lost in our own minds with its fears and self-defeating fantasies. In this second volume of poetry dedicated to the sacred dimension of sensual experience, poet Bill Weber continues to pursue the themes of the transcendence and connection to the divine to be found in the act of lovemaking.