This year, Emily decided to carry a hen with her (this one is a light Brahma and her name is Jordan), instead of pulling them behind in a cage-and-wagon combo of years past.
Children need a little order in their lives, especially if they can order it themselves.--Pippi Longstocking
Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. * John Holt, How Children Learn (1967)
"It is absurd and anti-life to move from cell to cell to the sound of a gong for every day of your natural youth in an institution that allows you no privacy and even follows you to the sanctuary of your home demanding that you do its ”homework”. - John Taylor Gatto
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.—Benjamin Franklin
Gotta Love Buffy
from season 3, after being kicked out of school, she suggests hs'ing to her mom
Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Note well this: Anything not expressly granted to the Federal government is reserved for the States or the People. Although this amendment is very liberally interpreted, it is one of the tenets of the Constitution. This amendment is also known as the States' Rights Amendment.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.--Agatha Christie
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