Tabula rasa
This morning when I came home from teaching Kindermusik, some wonderful things had happened. The boys had cleaned their rooms; the den was straight. The laundry had been taken downstairs to the laundry room. This afternoon when I came home from teaching Kindermusik, even more wonderful, the kitchen was spotless. The den floor swept clean. Loads of laundry had been washed and dried. As I had some time to prepare for voice class and had resigned that the majority of that time would be spent taking care of the boys, the most wonderful thing of all happened. My husband took the boys to the park with snacks, so I have TWO hours to myself. That gives me lots of time to think about "One day. . ." topics. When I saw the den floor and the kitchen table, my first thought was, "Ah, a clean slate!" That led me to Locke's phrase, Tabula rasa, an epistemological theory that began long before him. The kitchen floor can be swept clean and th...