Recently my preschooler came home from school and talked about one of her teachers reading,Where the Wild Things Are, and asked if I could get it from the library. I of course obliged and we picked it up and have since read it a few times. I know I had to have read it as a chil...
Reports on the use of the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak to teach philosophy lesson in school children.EBSCO_AspTimes Educational Supplement
and what would have been my case if it had not happened that the ship floated from the place where she first struck, and was driven so near to the shore that I had time to get all these things out of her; what would have been my case, if I had been forced to have lived in the...
We are immersed with the teaching, but become accustomed to ignoring it, as we know so few people who take it seriously. When children sing this song, we think “How cute! They’re singing about peace!” and within moments shrug off any hint of challenge it might stir, with a inner d...
Thoughts Are Things Thoughts are Things ESSAYS SELECTED FROM THE WHITE CROSS LIBRARY by Prentice Mulford “Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew’st be souls.” ...
KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release. Some of you on Android may have had dictionary issues. That should be fixed now. Connecting to Wi-Fi should be more reliable on platforms where we manage it ourselves, most notably Kobo (koreade...
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the hors...
For the April 8, 2024 eclipse, Dave and I committed early to Texas. Seemed like that was where the best long-range forecasts were. In the last week before the eclipse, the forecasts were no longer looking so good. But I've heard so many stories of people driving around trying to chase...
care of animals that naturally are inclined to range wide (like large birds), but to make the leap from those concerns to a decision to let a wild bird loose in a city full of cars, tall buildings, and rat poison takes a certain amount of sel...
Only a fraction of the mud I had up to my knees Ok friends, I think that is all for now…we are still keeping on here in WV! We have always used this blog to, among other things, document our lives and how our kids are growing up. In many ways, I am sad that I have not ...