I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty. ~Kabir
When you want only love you will see nothing else. ~A Course in Miracles
Love Is
Love is not a treasure hidden away in a dark cave, To be found by patient searching, Or stumbled upon by accident. Love floats in the air Like the molecules of oxygen Hungrily consumed by our bodies, To be inhaled into our hearts And manifest in the eyes and ears Of those we see around us. See not the body, this outer shell, But know the one within. For here is your soulmate. The one you seek. Found in every one you meet, No matter who they are, Or what they know, Or how they understand it.
Love is within your grasp. Reach out and take it. For as you give it, it is returned. Say the magic words I love you And it will appear. To stay? It doesn't matter. Enjoy the gift and treasure it. For if it goes away, Another will appear to fill the void. Just say the magic words. --Ivey Brown www.angelfire.com/al/harmonyinlife/index.html
The Difference between a good artist and a great one is: The novice will often lay down his tool or brush Then pick up an invisible club on the mind's table And helplessly smash the easels and Jade. Whereas the vintage man no longer hurts himself or anyone And keeps on sculpting Light -----Hafiz
It Felt Love
It Felt Love
How did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise We all remain Too Frightened
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan
"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself." - George Bernard Shaw
Children are born passionately eager to make as much sense as they can of things around them. If we attempt to control, manipulate, or divert this process...the independent scientist in the child disappears.-----John Holt
Gardening for the future of the Earth/Howard-Yana Shapiro Ph.D. and John Harrisson
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture/Toby Hemenway
Introduction to Permaculture/Bill Mollison
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming/Masanobu Fukuoka
Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles/Eric Toensmeier
Extreme Gardening: How to Grow Organic in the Hostile Deserts/David Owens
The Garden Guy: Seasonal Guide to Organic Gardening in the Desert Southwest/David Owens
A Desert Gardener's Companion/Kim Nelson
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape/Brad Lancaster
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks/Brad Lancaster
The New Create an Oasis with Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems - Includes Branched Drains/Art Ludwig
There are two ways to live your life -one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle. ----Albert Einstein
My Favorite Books
The Course in Miracles------Foundation for Inner Peace
A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are---Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell
To Hear the Angels Sing------Dorothy Maclean
Anastasia series------Vladimir Megre
Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within-----Kenny Werner
The Joyful Child: A Sourcebook of Activities and Ideas for Releasing Children's Natural Joy-----Peggy Davidson Jenkins
The Astonishing Power of Emotions---Esther and Jerry Hicks
The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham----Esther and Jerry Hicks
Ask and It is Given-----Esther and Jerry Hicks
The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships---Sobonfu Some
Wecoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community----Sobonfu Some
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community-----Malidoma Patrice Some
Of Water and Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman----Patrice Malidoma Some
Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing-------Robert Wolff
The Reluctant Shaman----Kay Cordell Whitaker
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World----Alan Weisman
Picture Books
Song of the Water Boatman and other pond poems--Joyce Sidman
The Tomten---Astrid Lingren
Fairy Houses----Tracy Kane
The Maggie B.----Irene Haas
When Stories Fell Like shooting Stars----Valinska Gregory
Looking for Angels---Valinska Gregory
My Mama Had a Dancing Heart----Libba Moore Gray
The Goat in the Rug---Geraldine
Poppy's Puppets----Patricia Lee Gauch
The First Strawberries----Joseph Bruchac
The Paper Crane----Molly Bang
The Wonderful Life of the Fly Who Couldn't Fly----Bo Lozoff
My Mama Had a Dancing Heart----Valinska Gregory
The Wishing Ball--Elisa Kleven
Sun Bread---Elisa Kleven
The Empty Pot---Demi
Sophie's Masterpiece---Eilenn Spinelli
Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Prisbey---Melessa Eskridge Slaymaker
The Bird House---Cynthia Rylant
Wild Child----Lynn Plourde
Stone Soup---John Muth
All For the Best----Hans Wilhelm
Wind Child----Shirley Rousseau Murphey
The Rough-Faced Girl----Rafe Martin
Miss Rumphius---Barbara Cooney
Favorite Chapter Books
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Haveli / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Shiva's fire / Suzanne Fisher Staples
The conch bearer / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The mirror of fire and dreaming / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Dragonsong / by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsinger / by Anne McCaffrey
Dragondrums / Anne McCaffrey
Wind Boy/Ethel Cook Eliot
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Love, Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Girls of Many Lands series
The Wheel on the School / Meindert DeJong
The Royal Diaries series
A Wrinkle in Time/Madeline L'Engle
Ronia, the robber's daughter / Astrid Lindgren
The Secret Garden/Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess/Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narnia series/C. S. Lewis
The Earthsea books / Ursula Le Guin
Julie of the Wolves/Jean Craighead George
My Side of the Mountain/Jean Craighead George
Ida B./Katherine Hannigan
The wild girls / Pat Murphy
Remember to buy the most durable, longest-life products you can find. All manufactured stuff still creates 20 to 70 pounds of wasted resources for every one pound of finished product.
Disposable means we're disposing of our children's future.
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