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The Play’s the Thing

May 7, 2010

That we can watch such things for free over the internet via PBS is something for which I am immensely grateful. That this is just one more story we share as a family – that’s priceless.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| The Reading Life|| Visions & Ventures|| Literature
Tagged With: film, Shakespeare, Stories, web
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A National Day of Listening

November 27, 2008

Only connect. Don’t let the mundane stand in the way. Make the time. Be curious and honest, and keep an open heart. Find others to encourage and support you in this practice. It’s simple, but it can mean the world.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Dialog, History, Holidays, Marriage, Marriage Encounter, National Day of Listening, NPR, Questions, Radio, Stories, Thanksgiving, Traditions
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Another Halloween

October 31, 2008

It’s that time of year again, when our culture takes a holiday originating in fall harvest and the passing of generations, and turns it into a celebration of imagination, childhood, community, misrule, aggression, terror, & trauma (as well as another opportunity for a capitalist binge).

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Barack Obama, David Bordwell, Fear, Halloween, Holidays, John McCain, Politics, Stories, Zombies
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What’s on Your Plate?

October 25, 2008

One of the things that has blessed us in our time in this part of Wisconsin has been the chance to live close to our food. It’s not that we sat farther from our plates in the city where I grew up, of course; it’s that we sat further away from the land that was our food’s native home.

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Shelved with: The Reading Life|| Reading the Table
Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Ann Vileisis, Blanchardville, Catherine Gund, Circle M Farm, Cities, Food, Movies, Rick Sanger, Seasons, Stories, Thomas A. Lyson, Troy Community Farm, Wisconsin
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My Kind of Expert

October 24, 2008

“The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.”

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Experts, Humor, John Hodgman, Literary Criticism, Onion, Politics, Sarah Palin, Stories, Truth, Yale University
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Teach Them to Read and Let Them Go!

August 11, 2008

Having conventional life stages mapped out is comforting–we know what we are supposed do and when; but what if life doesn’t always fit in a box? Or what if, as recent developmental research implies, there is no box?

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Tagged With: Daniel T. Willingham, Deschooling, High School, Homeschool, Jean Piaget, Life Without School, Multi-Scale, Parenting, Psychology, Shakespeare, Stories, Unschooling
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August, 1945

August 8, 2008

Sixty-three years ago this week, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The enormity of the event, the inhuman scale of both this power and its consequences, is nearly impossible to communicate. How can one understand the power of a thousand suns unleashed upon whole cities? It became one of the defining stories for generations […]

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Shelved with: Continuing Stories|| Mind & Society|| The Reading Life|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Books, Ellen Klages, Engineering, Girls, Hiroshima, History, Holidays, Keiji Nakazawa, Los Alamos, Math, Nagasaki, Reviews, Stories, Trinity, War & Peace
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The Heart of Father’s Day

June 15, 2008

Fathers are parents as well; we deal with those who are tender, and weak, and unprepared. Our strength is employed to their good and enjoyed in their company. That is the true heart of a father. It is a context of relationship changes everything.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Visions & Ventures|| Parenting
Tagged With: Africa, Cities, Classics, Father's Day, Harvard, Heroes, Hollidays, Latin, Parenting, Sarah Ruden, Stories, Translation, Troy, War & Peace
By circlereader 8 Comments

Why True Stories Are Important – Elie Wiesel

April 8, 2008

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

—Listen to the whole testimony: A God Who Remembers

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Tagged With: Elie Wiesel, History, Holocaust, NPR, Stories, This I Believe
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Beowulf: Behold the Man

November 16, 2007

You think you’ve heard about swords, and heroes, and fire-breathing dragons, and friendship, and glory, and treasure, just ’cause you’ve read those Potter books? C’mere, boys, let me tell you a tale…

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Shelved with: Visual Arts|| The Reading Life|| Visions & Ventures
Tagged With: Beowulf, Dick Ringler, Heroes, John D. Niles, John Gardner, Movies, Norman Gilliland, The Reading Life, Reviews, Seamus Heaney, Stories, Theater, Wisconsin Book Festival
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Storytelling and Fear

November 1, 2007

Ian over at Upper Fort Stewart in The Scariest Books I’ve Read says: There’s two days left till Halloween. If you’ve got any scary stories yourself why not blog about them and link back here so we can read them or post a comment. I can’t be the only guy around still afraid of Morlocks […]

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Halloween, Holidays, Horror, The Reading Life, Stories
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Real Life Superheroes

November 1, 2007

And for All Saints Day, a shout-out to Red Justice, Street Hero, Direction Man, the Super, and all the other Real Life Superheroes!

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Tagged With: Community, Heroes, Margin Notes, Stories
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