Have you asked yourself, what would it be like to be old and unable to care for yourself? To leave your home and live in a nursing home? I was a nursing assistant, a CNA, in a local nursing home for three years. A soul opener. I asked myself: "Who are these people? He, whose head is bowed, asleep in his wheelchair? She, with her walker in search of her room? Who were they? What of her smile, her wrinkled kind face? What of her children, her Thanksgivings, on her mother's lap? Did she dance before her father? Sled on her hill with her brothers? And he, who snarls--complains? What was his life like? Was he loved? Did he love? Old age creeps up on us. We look in the mirror and see an old man or woman. "Where did that time pass?" we ask. "Will anyone recall when I was young, could run, sing, dance, make love? Will I be alone and forgotten? I invite you to read these stories, a glimpse of the profound depth and mystery of each person.
We each have seeds of beautiful plants and flowers to grow. Only in the sunshine of silence, the rain of stillness, the lightning and thunder of solitude will they sprout and grow. In that sunshine and rain we will hear the song we are made to sing, the poem, story, invention That will cultivate life on our planet. We are invited to enter our garden gates to sow, weed and harvest delicious fruit. We dread to leave our noisy gadgets for what we may see and hear. Sad, for within our gardens we may hear a song to make the world dance. Write a children's story to make them laugh. Find a cure that gives life a chance. In the sunshine and rain of my silence I have planted seeds that I have nourished to grow. Humble plants: stories and poems that I am happy to share with you.
A Classic Father-Daughter Love Story by Colonel Tom Kelly. Selected Childhood chapters from; Dealer’s Choice, Better on A Rising Tide, A Year Outside, The Boat, & A Few Loose Chapters. “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale, her infinite variety.” -William Shakespeare
A father (Tom) hears his son Richard say, “School is OK except I don’t like learning numbers or arithmetic.” After dinner, Tom sits with Richard and tells him a story of a kingdom long ago where the use of numbers is forbidden by King Kcaj and of the chaos that ensues because of it. As Tom’s story unfolds, he hopes to instill in Richard a sense of the importance of learning numbers, counting, and arithmetic along with other life lessons.
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
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