What Should We Pass On?
Wisdom – Introduction from State Library of New South Wales on Vimeo. Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, multi-award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman has recorded the thoughts and ideas of fifty of the world’s most prominent...
The One Thing We Should Collect!
As any mom will tell you, with all the “things” we collect in life, the most important “thing” to pass on to our children is love. While in the Mother’s Day mode yesterday, I was reminded of these wonderful books. It’s hard not to get choked up when you read them. The fleetingness of childhood,...
Our Childhood Home
In the wonderfully inspiring and thoughtful book, A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of a Misspent Life, Mary Randolph Carter quotes her reader, Elena Salgueiro: I’m beginning to understand that we spend our childhoods hurrying up for the future to leave our imperfect limbo for some perfect Promised Land. And this is right and...
