Monday 25 May 2009 - Freedom Is Not Free
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The Olive Grove |
Thoughts on learning, living, falling, and forgiving at home with my 7 children.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
~Galileo Galilei
Composer:
John Philip Sousa
born 6 November, 1854
Poet:
Robert Louis Stevenson
born 13 November, 1850
Artist:
Grandma Moses
born 7 September, 1860
"And this our life . . .
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing."
~William Shakespeare: As You Like It, II, 1
Psalm 139
R&S Bible Readers in Genesis & Proverbs
Now We Are Six (A.A. Milne)
Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting)
The Struggle for Sea Power (M.B. Synge)
William Shakespeare & the Globe (Aliki)
Folktales from Ecosystems Around the World (retold by Claire Daniel)
Flower Fairies of the Autumn (Cicely Mary Barker)
Autumn Studies: Primary Lessons in Nature, Literature & Art (Anna McGovern)
"A man should hear a little music,
read a little poetry,
and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate
the sense of the beautiful which God
has implanted in the human soul."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A room without books
is like a body without a soul."
~Cicero
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles W. Eliot
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
~C.S. Lewis
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