L is for Learning

The April Blogging from A to Z Challenge continues!

Learning permeates every aspect of my life. I love reading for information, biographies, memoirs, history, watching documentaries, teaching children, writing for all ages, and conducting workshops and giving lectures.  Learning makes my world go ’round.

Here are a few of my quotes from some fellow lifelong learners:

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It’s Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
― C.S. Lewis

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I is for Illustrator

The April Blogging from A to Z Challenge continues!

 

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Illustrations bring an author’s words to life. Nowadays, people seem to link illustrations with children’s books – pictures that help tell a story to young readers-in-training.  But once upon  a time, artists’ works decorated the pages of stories for adults.  Just think of the beautiful maps and line drawings in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. 

 

 

 

Whether you love the sweet watercolor renderings of Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit, or the magic of Andrew Lang’s colorful series of world stories, many of us fell in love with the visual representations of what a writer inscribed on our imaginations.

What are your favorite illustrators?  Here’s a few names to get you started:

Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, Jules Pfeiffer, Dr. Seuss, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell…

Check out some modern famous illustrators HERE.

 

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E is for Edification

The April Blogging from A to Z Challenge continues!

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I know.  You’re thinking I would do ‘E is for Education’.  After all, it’s kind of my thing.  Learn something.  Teach it to someone else.  Repeat for infinity.

ed·i·fi·ca·tion

/ˌedəfiˈkāSHən/

Noun

The instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually: “the idea that art’s main purpose is edification”.

I know.  You’re thinking I would do ‘E is for Education’.  After all, it’s kind of my thing.  Learn something.  Teach it to someone else.  Repeat for infinity.

Today, I want to encourage you to become educated.  Learn something new, somehow, in some field that inspires you.  Read a book, take a class, go for a walk, learn to knit, care for a pet, attend an event – strive to pull new information into your brain.  It’s what keeps us going, and makes us better people.

Enhance yourself.  Enlighten your world.  Edification is for your own good!

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