#selfmastery #theway
Parents: If you haven't seen Jim Henson's "The Storyteller" series starring John Hurt--it is great for family viewing. ❤ So few things are. The whole series is on Youtube. #Parenting #talltales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCOoJSeEc4&list=PLPWZv5--hK0vyfCyvGRuICOvbD99lHbad
Gray is American and Grey is the rest of the world.
Both are derived from the Old English root word Græg
"A traditional orchard with 7 apple trees underplanted with daffodils... In areas where rabbits or deer are a problem if you underplant an apple tree with daffodils they will keep away from it because they know the bulbs are poisonous. Bulbs of all natures, chives and garlic are also good, shallow rooted they suppress grass that could interfere with the nutrients gained by the tree." -Dani David (Facebook) #gardening #permaculture #homesteading #deer
📷 Permaculture Research Institute.
#parenting #nature
Thank you for the zap!
"With cooler temperatures expected, some may want to use their small space heaters. If so, DO NOT plug them into a power strip. These devices are not designed to handle the energy load of a space heater and can overheat causing a fire hazard. "⚠️🔥
#BlackElk #CrazyHorse
The only trick of friendship is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.
~Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life Credit: English Literature info (facebook) #sageadvice #literature #friends
Here are some fascinating facts about books that will leave you amazed:
1. Roosevelt read an average of one book per day.
2. Harvard University Library has four books bound in human skin.
3. Iceland tops the world in per capita book reading.
4. People who read books are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
5. In Brazilian prisons, reading a book can reduce a prisoner's sentence by four days.
6. The most stolen book is the Bible.
7. Victor Hugo’s *Les Misérables* contains a sentence with 823 words.
8. Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.
9. Leo Tolstoy's wife hand-copied the manuscript of *War and Peace* seven times.
10. There are over 20,000 books written about chess.
11. Noah Webster took 36 years to write his first dictionary.
12. The Mahabharata is the only book or epic in the world with over 1,200 characters.
13. Words like “hurry” and “addiction” were invented by Shakespeare.
14. If all the books in the New York Public Library were lined up, they would stretch 8 miles.
15. The longest novel ever written is *In Search of Lost Time* by Marcel Proust, with over 1.2 million words.
16. The first book ever printed was the Gutenberg Bible in 1455.
17. J.K. Rowling is the first billionaire author, thanks to the success of the Harry Potter series.
18. Charles Dickens was paid by the word, which is why many of his books are so lengthy. credit: English Literature info (Facebook) #booktrivia
“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” #greatbooks
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
“Knot by knot I untie myself from the past
And let it rise away from me like a balloon.
What a small thing it becomes.
What a bright tweak at the vanishing point...”
Charles Wright #poetry #Art
Artist: Catrin Welz Stein
#foxguardinghenhouse
#parenting #DIYstove
Life doesn't always get better.
But you do.
You get stronger.
You get wiser.
You get softer.
With tattered wings you rise.
And the world watches in wonder
at the breathless beauty of
a human who survived life .. #poetry #art
L.R. Knost ✨
Credit to unknown artist
