"Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read."

-- Pam Allyn

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“I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.”
“I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.”

Source : "A Stormy Relationship With the Scale: an Interview With Al Roker". Interview with Bonnie Taub-Dix, bonnietaubdix.com.
“I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.”
“It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.”

Source : "Storm-Wake". Book by Lucy Christopher, April 5, 2018.
“You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,”
“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shapeâ€”determineâ€”what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source : James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press
“People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.”
“Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.”

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