“A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.” ― John D. MacDonald

“A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.”
― John D. MacDonald

Ashley Bryan, writer, illustrator, teacher. He tells the story of his time in WW2 in his book ‘Infinite Hope’

Ashley Bryan, writer, illustrator, teacher. He tells the story of his time in WW2 in his book ‘Infinite Hope’

New York Public Library ten most checked out books in 2019.

New York Public Library ten most checked out books in 2019.

Merlin Sheldrake reveals the stories of all our connectedness in his book, ‘Entangled Life"‘. These stories move thru time and place. The story of Fungi is the focus and the metaphor. Revealing how we all (man, animal, plant, and fungi) are connected, wether we know it or not.

Merlin Sheldrake reveals the stories of all our connectedness in his book, ‘Entangled Life.’ These stories move thru time and place. The story of Fungi is the focus and the metaphor. Revealing how we all (man, animal, plant, and fungi) are connected, wether we know it or not.

Ludwig Bemelmans’ New YorkMap created for the Madeline Show at the New York Historical Society.

Ludwig Bemelmans’ New York

Map created for the Madeline Show at the New York Historical Society.

"Perhaps the oldest philosophical question of all: are we matter? Or are we spirit and matter? What is consciousness if there is no spirit? Questions like that are of perennial fascination and they haven’t been solved yet, thank goodness."Phillip Pullman on his trilogy ‘The Book of Dust’.

"Perhaps the oldest philosophical question of all: are we matter? Or are we spirit and matter? What is consciousness if there is no spirit? Questions like that are of perennial fascination and they haven’t been solved yet, thank goodness."

Phillip Pullman on his trilogy ‘The Book of Dust’.

Emily Dickenson, poet, Amherst, Mass.some keep the sabbath going to churchi keep it staying homewith a bobolink for a chorister and an orchard for a dome

Emily Dickenson, poet, Amherst, Mass.

some keep the sabbath
going to church

i keep it staying home

with a bobolink for a chorister
and an orchard for a dome

Everyone should know the story told in ‘The Ghost Map’ by Steven Johnson. Dr John Snow was a creative thinker. Henry Whitehead was his great supporter. Dr Snow figured out that the Broadstreet pump was the source of the cholera in the neighborhood. By making a map.

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