one of my favorite things is to hear a child tell a story.
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image credit: nicolette sowder, wilderchild
Feb9
Tag Archives: children
Feb3
oneself.
my favorite self portrait of the season
looks back at you eye-to-eye
confident and unapologetic
something about it – so open and joyful.
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“self portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.”
-eric kandel
Jan30
snow panda.
the brave little snow panda masters the road
with a few big challenges along the way.
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“this would not be a problem if i were driving a snowplow.”
-aaron allston
Dec22
wild sounds.
on the last day before our winter break
the instruments waited patiently
for the children
who would soon come
to begin their day
by happily making music.
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“music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
-thomas fuller
Dec17
crystals.
a collection of treasured magic crystals found a frosty playground
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“every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal,
a moment of time is related to the whole,
and partakes of the perfection of the whole.”
-ralph waldo emerson
Dec10
sudden.
a quick exit.
why so sudden?
had goldilocks been there and heard the bears coming home?
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“the first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it’s chocolate pudding, right?”
-Mo Willems (author)
Nov25
box-sledding.
what could be better
then box-sledding
on dirt and dried grass
while dreaming of snow?
—
“my first playpen was a cardboard box.”
-michael lee-chin
Nov23
atomic.
what child wouldn’t put this on their holiday wish list?
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“it is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”
-isaac newton
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credits: Rogue NASA, Weird History
Nov13
on world kindness day.
little one comforting the littler ones.
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“if you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.”
-douglas coupland
Nov12
backwards.
and why not turn around and create your shaving cream art while backwards?
all it takes is a fresh idea and a willingness to try a new approach.
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“i think backwards. ‘this was beautiful,’ instead of forward.”
-alice herz-sommer
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