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  • Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand. - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    "Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education." -David Polis
  • "Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it... but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one becomes to feeling ill... Thus if one just keeps walking, everything will be all right." -Soren Kierckgaard
  • Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus
  • How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard

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October 13, 2007

So Inspiring

I read this short essay last night and just had to share.  Much too big for my little quotes section, I am posting it here:

Teach the cildren.  We don't matter so much, but the children do.  Show them daisies and the pale hepatica.  Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen.  The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the mocassin-flowers.  And the frisky ones - inkberry, lamb's-quarters, blueberries.  And the aromatic ones - rosemary, oregano.  Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school.  Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit.  Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.

- Mary Oliver

I love this quote.  It reminds me that, of all the things Mark & I want to share with our children, a love and appreciation for the natural world may be one of the most important.

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Posted at 03:16 PM in Inspiring |

Comments

Nana

What a beautiful essay. It sounds like the life you are giving Silas and Levi. I know they will grow up appreciating their surroundings thanks to you and Mark. What an incredible place in which to raise your children.

Posted by: Nana | October 13, 2007 at 05:48 PM

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