evolution of words
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”– a paraphrase of Leon…
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”– a paraphrase of Leon…
“The future is your next breath.”– Alexis De Veaux Following a year where awareness of what it means to take a breath has grown exponentially, and a year in which…
“To everything (turn, turn, turn)There is a season (turn, turn, turn)”– Pete Seeger Dear readers, The time has come for me to write my very last notion. It is in…
“I’m a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people’s lives.”— Ntozake Shange Words…
“To be a smart person in Wiradjuri is to sit down & listen.”— Jonathan Jones In the Wiradjuri language, one of the many Aboriginal languages in Australia, the word “wudhadhuray”…
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”– Helen Keller Whether I'm reading the news, worrying about loved ones, smelling nearby fires,…
"You can give a man a fish and THEN teach him to fish, you know. And it's a lot easier to learn how to fish when you're not starving.”– Lore…
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”– Booker T. Washington This goat sculpture had no idea they would be supporting a water dragon on a sunny…
"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging." – Joseph Campbell Each of us is having an individual, distinct experience of this pandemic, depending on…
“Nobody, of the hundreds of people that had visited the Fair, knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all.” – E.B. White, Charlotte's Web A…