“Teach the children…. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones—inkberry, lamb’s-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones—rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
- Upstream, Mary Oliver
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Chinese Dragon Phone, circa 1980s
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Summer - Isabel Quintanilla , 1974.
Spanish b. 1938 -
Oil on canvas, 138.5 × 109 cm.
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Unknown, Alfa Poppy Rolling papers, Belgium, 1990
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Mamma’s Angel Child in Toyland by Marie-Christine Sadler
Rand Mc Nally and Company
Chicago
1915
Artist : M. T. (Penny) Ross
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