August 2010
1 post
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
4 posts
May 2010
7 posts
April 2010
14 posts
A Home Library’s Educational Edge →
austinkleon:
After examining statistics from 27 nations, a group of researchers found the presence of book-lined shelves in the home — and the intellectual environment those volumes reflect — gives children an enormous advantage in school.
“Home library size has a very substantial effect on educational attainment, even adjusting for parents’ education, father’s occupational status and other...
i don’t know where the sun beams end and the star lights begin, it’s all a mystery.
March 2010
4 posts
What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.
-from The Eye-mote, Sylvia Plath
February 2010
12 posts
if it's not love, then it's the bomb that will...
January 2010
46 posts
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
– Holden via J.D.
I’m so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via camijoan) (via nothalfright) (via thingsgohazy) (via suicideunderground)