S7E100: Why Literature Still Matters with Dr. Jason Baxter
And this is exactly what I had accidentally inflicted on myself in Sardinia. The distance between me and the landscape had been erased. I had been reduced to an experience of pure elemental conditions, and I loved it, because I…
S7E99: 25 Books of Christmas with Jeannette Tulis
Now imagination does not descend, full grown, to take possession of an empty house; like every other power of the mind, it is the merest germ of a power to begin with, and grows by what it gets; and childhood,…
S7E96: Morning Time for Moms Part 5 with Elaine Shutt
I know you may bring a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. What I complain of is that we do not bring our horse to the water. We give him miserable little text-books, mere compendiums of…
S4E60: The Building Blocks of Story with Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey
Commonplace Tales: Tales of Imagination––Stories, again, of the Christmas holidays, of George and Lucy, of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so…
