Understanding how to initiate change is becoming a central issue for our time. Fortunately nature has given us a model that has a much better chance of working than all the change book's ideas so far.
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We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.
Jim Rohn
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Snappy, pulp-inspired noir set in the mean hallways of middle school, from an exciting debut author.
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Do you "feel the fear" when asked to do some public speaking? Public speaking is still one of our greatest fears and it turns grown men and women into nervous wrecks. The mere thought of it turns our tongue to cotton wool, causes our internal plumbing to act up and turns our knees to jelly. Well, there's no need for all of this because help is at hand. All you need to remember are your P's and Q's. Let's start with the P's
Beginning November 28, The Franklin in Philadelphia will host "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition," a 10,000-square-foot exhibit that allows visitors to explore the world of C.S. Lewis's series through the costumes, sets and props from the Narnia films. The exhibition will run through April 19; tickets are available through The Franklin's Web site or by calling 215-448-1254. The exhibition will travel to eight additional cities over the next five years.
"Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality."
-- Deepak Chopra
em>Panelists Anita Silvey and David Wiesner.
Earlier this week more than 100 booksellers, librarians, and other children’s book devotees attended a panel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., to mark the publication of James Marshall’s George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends Stories (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Sept.). Billed as both a celebration of Marshall (1942–1992) and a look at humor in children’s books, the panel was moderated by Roger Sutton, editor of the Horn Book,
which cosponsored the event with the
Cambridge Public Library and HMH.
Although, as Anita Silvey noted during the panel, Marshall was one of the few children's writers and illustrators to get a book contract after seeing one editor (Walter Lorraine) with one portfolio—and one of the first to get on The Today Show—he never was awarded a Caldecott. Neither panelist David Wiesner, who has received three, nor Martha Speaks author/illustrator Susan Meddaugh or school librarian Susan Moynihan could explain why, except to point to the humor in his work.
Art journals are a form of daily devotion. They are experimental and a great place to explore new materials and techniques. They are an excellent way to record a full and immediate life.
As I become more present with everyday life as it occurs and not so invested in long range goals, everything feels meaningful. A scrap of junk mail, a fragment from a magazine, a word, old letters. Everything can be gathered with a new frame of reference and be seen with new eyes and fresh meaning.
My list of New Year’s resolutions is about as long as my cash register receipt from a major trip to the grocery store. At the top of that list is time management (I'm going to need some serious scheduling for all these resolutions!). If it’s on your list, too, you might want to think about using Outlook to help you reach your goals!
