Books, Movies, Writing, Education, Kids, Ideas (and here's one that's five hundred years old, but new to me): AUTHOR: Fra Giovanni Giocondo (c.1435–1515) QUOTATION: No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace!The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see; and to see, we have only to look.
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Old favorites: James Taylor, Brazil 65, Getz/Gilberto, Genesis, Elvis Costello, Carmen McCrae, Nat King Cole, Talking Heads, The Cure, David Bowie, Queen, U2... newer (to me) favorites: The Weepies, Schuyler Fisk, Ingrid Michaelson, Martin Sexton, some of Ben Taylor's songs...and a song by the Corb Lund band that my youngest knows by heart: Gonna Shine Up My Shoes.
New Favorites: Anvil:The Story of Anvil, and Paris, Je t'aime. Old Favorites: It's a Wonderful Life, To Kill a Mockingbird, Young Frankenstein, My Life as a Dog, Garden State, Serenity, -- see, this is why I don't want to start, I'll never get them all down, and my son is going to be mad that I'm writing down my own favorites...
Good adventures with great writing...like...Firefly, The Office, House, Prime Suspect, the old Sherlock Holmes series...
We devour books and are always on the lookout for new writers. Family favorite: Enders Game, the Harry Potter books... My favorites...Letters to a Young Poet -Rainer Maria Rilke, Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, Me Talk Pretty Someday by David Sedaris, and more will come to me...
Good parents, crazy friends, goofy kids, bookworms and adventure divas.