What do you read?

 SeaKiwi

"What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading"  Eleanor Roosevelt

I have recently reread Jackson's Track by Daryl Tonkin.  I think every Australian should read this book.  It is a wonderful, moving and tragic true story and shows how misguided white Australian "dogooders" ruined the lives of so many Aboriginal Australians.  The book gives wonderful descriptions and insights into the life of the Aboriginal community.  A way of life we could all learn alot from! 

Life's a garden, dig it!

It has been beautiful out in the garden lately.

Beautiful purple cabbages to make purple cabbage salad.

We've had lots of broccoli (much to Nelson and Django's dismay!)

This is the first time I have grown fennel and I quite like it!

This is the result of me forgetting to shut the net and the chooks getting in. Naughty chooks!

Winter means

Lots of fires.

Very frosty mornings.

Warming up in front of the fire after a bath.

Wearing woolly scarves.

Lots of pumpkins.

A Manifesto for life

 

from Brain Pickings

Things that would be cool to make with the kids

from Mini-Eco

from recycling at school

from Almost Unschoolers

I wonder if this would work with bamboo?  Saw it here.

These are some ideas I want to remember.  I especially like the pop stick river houses. 

Rainbow

Another great picture from the seakiwi

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And success is…
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of
false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Thanks Peta, I had to copy this quote.  Such a good one!!