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The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant 10 Jul 2013 | 12:44 am
“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the qui...
The Green Knowe Books & Multiculturalism in Children's Literature 30 Jun 2013 | 11:48 pm
Recently while listening to WNYC, I heard a segment about the lack of diversity in children's literature. While the US's population is becoming more diverse, it is apparently not reflected in children...
Childhood and Exploring Nature 29 May 2013 | 05:31 pm
When I reread the Green Knowe books, what struck me most about them was how much time the children in the books - Tolly, Ping, Ida, Oskar, Susan,and Jacob spent exploring the outdoors. Tolly climbs th...
Visiting Lucy Boston's House, Part 2 26 May 2013 | 12:00 am
Since we were early for our 2 PM house tour, we decided to explore the gardens. Lucy talks about designing and building the gardens in her memoir Memory in a House, which also contains some black and ...
Visiting Lucy Boston's House 25 May 2013 | 10:15 pm
Two weeks ago, some friends and I toured Lucy Boston's house and garden. My friend Val had read Boston's books; her husband Dave hadn't heard of Boston but wanted to see the old house. We took a train...
Memory in a House - part 1 6 May 2013 | 06:09 pm
Lucy Boston had led an adventurous life for a woman of her time. She had dropped out of Oxford University to become a nurse during WWI and worked in a hospital in Normandy. She had married her cousin,...
Introduction to The Children of Green Knowe 6 May 2013 | 05:40 pm
My first exposure to Lucy Maria Boston's Green Knowe series came when my older brother took a an introduction to children's literature class during his first year in college. He was required to read T...
Untitled 2 Mar 2013 | 01:45 am
"When a person rediscovers that his deepest Nature is one with the All, he is relieved from the burdens of time, of anxiety, of worry; he is released from the chains of alienation and separate-self ex...
Water - the Sea Roads 11 Feb 2013 | 10:23 pm
"Invert the mental map you have of Britain, Ireland, and Western Europe. Turn it inside out. Blank out the land interiorsof these countries - consider them featureless, as you might previously have co...
Snow 9 Feb 2013 | 06:31 pm
In chapter 13, Macafarlane and David Quentin follow the Ridgeway, a track over the chalk downs of Neolithic origin, using cross-country skis. They ski past two great Neolithic sacred sites, Silbury Hi...
