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I am loving this! A Waldorf-inspired resource for homeschoolers and parents. Darian's chapters begin with poetic musings, like the very best of a mother's journal entries written just before dawn and the awakening of a family. Insightful and lyrical.
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If I could pick any writer to just -be-, myself, I've often said it would be Barbara Kingsolver. I'm loving this, her latest nonfiction about her experimental year as a locavore on her Appalachian farm with her family. So, I love the Appalachians, an
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“Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.”
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“A bit of advice
Given to a young Native American
At the time of his initiation:
As you go the way of life,
You will see a great chasm. Jump.
It is not as wide as you think.”
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Given to a young Native American
At the time of his initiation:
As you go the way of life,
You will see a great chasm. Jump.
It is not as wide as you think.”
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“Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.”
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