John Sykes was a Quaker who volunteered to serve as an ambulance driver with the Finns during the Winter War with the Soviets. One night, a doctor pointed at one of the wounded soldiers in his ambulance and remarked that the man — a working class labor organizer — had it in him to b...
I was thinking of writing a poem about the trees, but I couldn’t because, really, the trees themselves are the poems. An epic poem. Annie Kitaeff Redwood Burl Photo by Annie Kitaeff Shadows in the Redwoods Photo by Annie Kitaeff ...
When he does, he finds Boyden’s parents and their home stereotypes of mid-century American middle-class life, with all its accoutrements: “There were antimacassars on the parlor chairs and the radio had Jacobean legs and an inlaid front and the gas stove would cook without watching and th...
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The construction of our garden was completed in May. I was glad to have a couple of months to plant before the busy summer schedule. Initially, I planted two Red Delicious apple trees. When I learned that the trees need to cross-pollinate with another species, I returned one and bought ...
There are altogether over eight metres between the north and the south trees. The tree has odd and vigorous limbs of primitive simplicity with twisted roots and an upward facing tree crown. The shape is just like a sleeping dragon raising his head high. After growing for about 300 years, ...
With younger kids who can’t read yet, try giving them musical instruments or sound producing things that they can shake, rub, rattle or blow to indicate various things happening in the story (wind blowing in the trees, the bark of a dog etc.) ...
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trees. I come from murky waters and lush green leaves and sturdy branches. I am from the scratching of a pen, and the flick of a brush. I am from the smell of cigarette smoke and an autumn evening. I am from a household, a household holding ...
The characters, identified by some inscriptions in Greek, are reduced to small figures in wide and bright landscapes with steep rocks, seashores and trees. The episodes accurately illustrate the Homeric poem and seem to focus mainly on the events that should have happened along the Italic coasts...