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How to Fall in Love Better: A Field Guide to Enlightened Enchantment
Enchantment, J.R.R. Tolkien believed, is “as necessary for the health and complete functioning of the Human as is sunlight for physical life.” But enchantment is a story we tell ourselves that tells us back to ourselves, and like every story, it can be true or false. Love is the most powerful…
Emerson on How to Trust Yourself
"It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
10 Halloween Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Kids to Get Spooky
Click here to read 10 Halloween Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Kids to Get Spooky on Hands On As We Grow® On a search for Halloween scavenger hunt ideas for kids, I found these 10 spooky-fun hunts with pumpkins, spiders, monsters, ghosts and Halloween decorations.
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
"There are more things ... likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
The Three Elements of the Good Life
To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and sometimes at war with each other, being true is not a pledge to be a paragon of cohesion, predictable and…
How to Be a Poet: Elizabeth Alexander on the Yin-Yang of Connection and Contradiction
“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us,” James Baldwin wrote. “Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.” No matter how slant they may tell it, that truth tells us back to ourselves, helps us tell each…
Recognizing & Building with Letter Blocks
Click here to read Recognizing & Building with Letter Blocks on Hands On As We Grow® With this letter block activity, I built on George’s current knowledge of letters and stuck them into something he always loves! Blocks! Last week for the Summer Reading Series with A Mom with a Lesson Plan (she’s…
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that's its task."
The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change
"Many of [life's] big decisions involve choices to have experiences that teach us things we cannot know about from any other source but the experience itself."
How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty
There are times in life when the continent of certainty parts underfoot and, as the ash cloud of the old world rains darkness upon us, we are asked to swim in the rivers of lava that will make the new. “Almost it would appear that it is useless in such confusion to ask,” wrote Virginia Woolf of…
How To Make a Colorful Fall Leaf Suncatcher Collage
Click here to read How To Make a Colorful Fall Leaf Suncatcher Collage on Hands On As We Grow® A fall leaf suncatcher is the perfect craft to capture the essence of fall. Fall in the Midwest is one of the most magical times of the year. Majestic oaks and maples turn various shades of red, yellow…
The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay
Exploring the intersection of time and decision-making to shine a light on what it means to be human.
Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup
"I can’t consider you a friend when out of every contact there comes some intentionally wounding thing."
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die
The summer after graduating high school, knowing he would face conscription into the military as soon as his eighteenth birthday arrived, Edward Abbey (January 29, 1927–March 14, 1989) set out to get to know the land he was being asked to die for. He hitchhiked and hopped freight trains, rode in…
Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted by severing the body and the mind, we are bleeding with a Cartesian cleft of our own making — the damaging divide between life and work. The notion of a “workaholic,” often worn as a badge on the lapel of the…
The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Time Spent vs. Saved vs. Wasted
"Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing... is ours, except time."
On Losing a Parent
We spend our lives mastering the art of losing. Our necessary losses shape us; the unnecessary, senseless, devastating losses bend our shape to test our breaking point. We can lose people to life — to conflict, to confusion, to the consequences of their trauma — losses painful precisely because it…
Actuality vs. Possibility and How to Hear the Signal of Your Life
Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the atmosphere against the backdrop of a billion dead stars whose signal light is only now reaching us, I found myself trembling with the parallel…
Super Simple Color Collage
Click here to read Super Simple Color Collage on Hands On As We Grow® This is a super simple color collage for learning colors. It’s a great introduction for colors because its great for kids that are just beginning to recognize that there are different colors and this is all about matching the…
