2Blowhards gave me a nice plug, and in the same post introduced me to two wonderful blogs I've added to the link list: Aaron Haspel's God of the Machine in Culture Blogs and Alice Bachini's Rational Parenting in a category of its own, Nifty Blogs. I'll write later about this excellent discussion (here and here on God of the Machine; here's a sonnet of mine for Rational Parenting:
Homework
My daughter's learning how the planets dance,
How curtseys to an unseen partner's bow
Are clues that tell an ardent watcher how
To find new worlds in heaven's bleak expanse,
How even flaws in this numerical romance
Are fruitful: patient thought and work allow
Mistakes to carry meaning. She writes now
That Tombaugh spotting Pluto wasn't chance.
Beside her, I write, too. Should I do more
Than nudge her at her homework while I try
To master patterns made so long before
My birth that since then stars have left the sky?
I'll never know. But what I try to teach
Is trying. She may find what I can't reach.
2:15:58 PM 
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