There’s something I love
About the towering foxglove,
How the Staggering spotted Blooms
Grow Straight and tall
How the color fades and tapers
And how the baby buds enthrall
You with their stature.
-Mrs. Karl T. Cooper, Jr.
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Instant Library Pastel Book Bundle
Here is my first attempt at selling books by color. I feel conflicted with this marketing approach. On one hand the booklover in me cringes and on the other hand, the interior designer in me smiles at the soft pastel palette with just a dash of geometric flare. At any rate, this book bundle is up for sale, and is available here. Don’t worry I added the titles in the description!
Queen Anne’s Lace
Each flower is a hand’s span of whiteness
Her body is not so white as
anemone petals nos so smooth-nor
so remote a thing. It is a field
of the wild carrot taking
the field by force; the grass
does not raise above it.
Here is no question of whiteness,
white as can be, with purple mole
at the center of each flower.
Each flower is a hand’s span
of her whiteness. Wherever
his hand has lain there is
a tiny purple blemish. Each part
is a blossom under his touch
to which the fibres of her being
stem one by one, each to it end
until the whole field is a
white desire, empty , a single stem,
a cluster, flower by flower,
a pious wish to whiteness gone over-
or nothing.
William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963
Some Recent Finds:
Art Study Rubens: St. George and the Dragon
We Use Time Life Library of Art Books for our Art Studies:
These books are perfect for picture study, I love using them! Each term we study a new artist and I bring out a new art book for our studies. It’s nice to bring the books out one at a time, instead of having them always available, the change seems to spark more interest in the term’s artist. I only have one left at my etsy shop but they are also available on amazon
Field Guides for Nature Study
How and Why Wonder Books are really wonderful reference books. We find ourselves coming home from a nature walk and rereading this one, just to be sure that what we saw was in fact an American Copper Butterfly.
A Golden Nature Guide of Insects is another favorite of ours. It’s much smaller than the how and why wonder book of Insects and easily fits in a pocket or purse. It also has full color pictures making it easy to ID insects.
What do you use on nature walks?
Nature Walk Things We Found:
15% off Labor Day Weekend Sale
Check it out! We’re having a Labor day weekend Sale and it’s not just our shop! Etsy shops everywhere are joining in! No coupon Codes needed! Discounts shown at check out!
Cute Etsy Shop
My sister-in-law started a little Etsy store called HomeBlanketShop she sells handmade Crochet Dolls and can do custom orders too. I think they’re rather cute! Here are some of my favorites:
Reminds me of Anne of Green Gables
Goldilocks? or maybe River Song
Sweet Princess Doll!
My daughter and her new found friend.
Thank you HomeBlanketShop! We love the doll!
Walker Percy’s “Love In The Ruins” Sequel
The Thanatos Syndrome is Walker Percy’s Sequel to “Love in The Ruins.” In 1989, Percy stated that, in The Thanatos Syndrome:
“I tried to show how, while truth should prevail, it is a disaster when only one kind of truth prevails at the expense of another. If only one kind of truth prevails — the abstract and technical truth of science — then nothing stands in the way of a demeaning of and a destruction of human life for what appear to be reasonable short-term goals.”
