Comments on: New Post on LWOS! http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2008/02/18/new-post-on-lwos-3/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:56:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Poppins http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2008/02/18/new-post-on-lwos-3/#comment-47467 Poppins Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:10:16 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2008/02/18/new-post-on-lwos-3/#comment-47467 Inspirational essay, Laureen. It really touched me. It altered the course of my day, deepening what I'd already had planned. Thank you for that. What you wrote reminds me of one of my favourite quotes: "It is not so much what we are taught, but what we are surrounded by, that determines the course of our lives: the music and poetry and talk, the bright cocoon of life that is woven all around us." Julie Keller. I wrote out two lines from your article into my commonplace book, and I'd love to have your last name to credit you with alongside all the other authors of my quote collection. Would you mind emailing me? Inspirational essay, Laureen. It really touched me. It altered the course of my day, deepening what I’d already had planned. Thank you for that.

What you wrote reminds me of one of my favourite quotes:
“It is not so much what we are taught, but what we are surrounded by, that determines the course of our lives: the music and poetry and talk, the bright cocoon of life that is woven all around us.” Julie Keller.

I wrote out two lines from your article into my commonplace book, and I’d love to have your last name to credit you with alongside all the other authors of my quote collection. Would you mind emailing me?

]]> By: ElementalMom http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2008/02/18/new-post-on-lwos-3/#comment-47466 ElementalMom Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:03:31 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2008/02/18/new-post-on-lwos-3/#comment-47466 Thanks Tammy! If you go to the article itself and read the comments (and there are a gazillion of them) you end up with a really interesting slice of all the reasons people didn't stop. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse; I sort of oversimplified it in order to keep from crying (more). Hearing what people thought were good, valid, justifiable reasons just made it hurt more. Thanks Tammy! If you go to the article itself and read the comments (and there are a gazillion of them) you end up with a really interesting slice of all the reasons people didn’t stop. I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse; I sort of oversimplified it in order to keep from crying (more). Hearing what people thought were good, valid, justifiable reasons just made it hurt more.

]]> By: TammyT http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2008/02/18/new-post-on-lwos-3/#comment-47463 TammyT Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:59:55 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2008/02/18/new-post-on-lwos-3/#comment-47463 Awesome post. Although I think that people passing up good violin playing in the subway is a bit more complicated than simply a lack of desire to stop and smell the music, I had a visceral reaction to this as an example of the messages we send our children about where learning and life appreciation happens. It was a great article Laureen. Looking forward to the next one. Awesome post. Although I think that people passing up good violin playing in the subway is a bit more complicated than simply a lack of desire to stop and smell the music, I had a visceral reaction to this as an example of the messages we send our children about where learning and life appreciation happens.

It was a great article Laureen. Looking forward to the next one.

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