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Category: Bill Holm

It’s odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

kids, parenting

You must sit down to speak this language,It is so heavy you can’t be polite or chatter in it.For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you”-quoted in “The Geography of Bliss

icelandic, language

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

Don’t whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can’t you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion – in both inner and outer worlds.

Children judge each other harshly, but don’t make nice distinctions among the grown.

Children judge each other harshly, but don’t make nice distinctions among the grown.