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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
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Oregon politicians and historians, well into the twentieth century, celebrated the beneficial cleansing effect of bringing highly infectious contagions from Europe to the Native people of the Oregon Country. “Always it will be a source of
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“Becoming a mother is already a rupturing event—an apocalypse of the heart, an undoing and a redoing of your world. In loving Fiona, my heart broke open. There was a certain kind of agony in this—one for which I’m eternally grateful.”
― Raising a Rare Girl
― Raising a Rare Girl
“Disability was not something to find blame for, because disability was not a problem. Through the neutral lens of science, my kid’s chromosomal anomaly was a product of diversity, and who could be upset about that?”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
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“She trusted her instincts; she trusted those dear to her; she trusted her emotions and her passions. She drank deep, you could see that; she squeezed every drop of living out of all the elements that mattered to her. It made her careless sometimes, of course it did, but it was a wonderfully rich and rapt way to be.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“…when therapists use a “deficit lens,” they tend to limit a child’s opportunities and view the child as a problem in need of “fixing.” But a capacity-building lens will not only meet and celebrate kids where they are, it often will create higher outcomes for them. In other words, kids grow more when professionals see their strengths.”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
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