As a result of this lesson, students will gain a deeper understanding of plot of the book, 'Journey to the River Sea,' by Eva Ibbotson, as they...
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Water-controlling magic– The “magic of water restriction” (閉水法; a.k.a. “water-repelling magic,” 避水訣) allows him to ward off water and/or to “open a waterway” (開水道) in order to travel to the aquatic realm. And the “magic of overturning seas and rivers” (翻江攪海...
TheMonkey Kingis famed for hismultiple categories of immortalityinJourney to the West(Xiyouji,西遊記, 1592; “JTTW” hereafter). These are acquired throughspiritual cultivation, redacting heavenly paperwork, partaking in celestial foodstuffs, and (at the journey’s end)attaining Buddhahood. But “imm...
him I’m counting people for the National Park Service. He was impressed and mentioned it must be nice to get paid to sit in my hammock all day. I told him, “It’s pretty great.” I returned to reading my book, while he looked to the river and started to monologue about his ...
Explorer Tara Roberts took up diving to learn about the human side of a tragic era. She wound up connecting with her family’s inspiring past.
In particular, in the latter issues of that year, October and November, Leanna Driftmier’s son, Frederick (Ted), who had been teaching at a mission sponsored school in Assiut, Egypt and regularly sent letters home to his mother, excerpts of which she included each month, began to describe...
To understand the magnitude of the Philadelphia Eleven’s gift to the church, I think it helps to put oneself in the position of the 5,000 people who had just been fed during Jesus’ teaching ministry. Those gathered on the hillside had just had an experience of Jesus’ ministry demonstrati...
(Btw – he is a pretty fantastic teacher. I’ve never heard him give a lesson before and it’s truly impressive to hear him in full-on teaching mode.) I’ll wrap this installment soon. Tomorrow we say goodbye to our car, which has taken us from Inverness to Ullapool, through the ...
That very nurse had spent the first 5 years of my career teaching me right from wrong, had been a friend a team lead and encouraged me when I talked about movement. Now that I wanted to make a move it needed to be angled back at what I originally wanted, and there it was, truly ...