So, how do you raise a reader? Forget the dishes and the laundry. Have some coffee after dinner so you’re awake to read, “just one more.” Snuggle up and read together. It’s as much about being together as it is about expanding their minds and opening their vocabularies.
You get just one chance at this. The time flies away in a blink — but, in every page, the memories last forever.
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| — | Sherri Duskey Rinker, “How To Raise A Reader (Without Really Trying)” (via schoollibraryjournal) |
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep…that have taken hold.
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| — | J.R.R. Tolkien (via onlinecounsellingcollege) |
Color Wash by Sean Bagshaw
Psychedelic bands of sedimentary stone in a dry wash, Valley of Fire, Nevada.
It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.
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| — | Mark Haddon from The Red House (via ingeniosa) |






