Although Patricia M. Boyer won a scholarship to McMaster University with the highest mathematics marks in Ontario and graduated at age 19, literature and languages were her specialty. She first worked as a public librarian, next as a secondary school teacher, then as a newspaper editor. A community leader in arts and theatre, Patricia was devoted to human rights action in her local community and around the world, church work, drama, the education of children with disabilities, and music. Each week she wrote a newspaper column inspired by episodes in the world around her, both local and global. She rewarded readers through articles infused with learning from literature, astute sensibility to human psychology, and balanced insights on the tragedies and comedies of life’s passing parade. Patricia Boyer summed up her approach to life as "optimistic realism". This collection of the best of her celebrated columns, organized through the twelve months of the year or "the march of days", includes reflections on seasonal celebrations, changing atmospheres of nature, and calendar milestones in the human cycle. A number of these concise yet poignant writings will move many readers with nostalgia as they evoke the happy events and tragic developments of the Sixties and Seventies. All of them, however, convey the wisdom of a woman whose message of optimistic realism endures like a timeless guide to living a satisfying life in the real world today.

The narrative of L.H. Naron, known as Chickasaw the Scout, was furnished to the writer by Naron himself.

There is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pin down. Here, for the first time, renowned classicist Theodore Rabb defines the changes that marked the shift away from the Renaissance to Modernity, and explains why these changes took place. The European Renaissance is usually characterized by the belief that a distinct antique civilization represented the ideal for all human endeavors. But there were other unities that defined the era: a shift in the role of the aristocracy from a warrior class to a cultural elite, a growth in education, a more thoughtful probing into the sciences, and the use of the arts for nonreligious purposes.By the dawn of the seventeenth century, four developments had swept over the world, altering these unities and ending the Renaissance: a break with the period's obsession with the past, which invited openness to innovation; a quest for central political control to cure increasing instability; a change in direction of people's passion and enthusiasm; and a new commitment to reason. With thoughtful, wide-lens scholarship and close, detailed looks throughout at the significant moments of change, Rabb offers us a radically new understanding of one of the most pivotal shifts in modern history.

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As a child in the 1960s, my biggest and happiest influences were: • living in the mountains of Colorado • experiencing Brownies and Girl Scouts • Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ‘Little House’ books • Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan • caring for my baby sister • creative expression in dance class • going to Sunday School In 1978, as newlyweds, my husband, Kevin, and I set out for the wilds of Canada intending to live the ‘Back-to-the- Land’ homesteading lifestyle in the tiny log cabin we built before winter set in. The cold, darkness and silence were crushing. The isolation brought intense loneliness. Could I somehow overcome the Limitations and seek Possibilities? Volunteering was the key to open the doors.

When the rest of the world stopped, they kept theirs going. As life is thrown into chaos by a global pandemic, a married couple must work with each other to maintain whatever order they can while keeping their kids safe and their sanity functional. Arthur works at a food distribution center and stands up to the challenge of keeping the supply chain intact as the hoarding begins. Joyce is a teacher and has to find a way to educate her students in the era of crisis learning. While their struggles were real, so was the love between them, which kept it all going.

There are too many words we say and written, only a few which are true and meaningful. We read and speak too much but we write and listen too little. As we read and talk about how beautiful those poems, not all could write good poems and not even understand it's meaning. I am so grateful to meet special person, Ikhwanul Halim, whose not only could write beautiful poems, but I believe that all his words is true, truly sincere. He can write different of prose with different methods of poems. To be able to write 100 days of poems was not as easy as we thought. He succeed conquer himself to be that consistent to write thoughtful poems with incredible choice of words. I witnessed the process of his journey writing 100 poems, everyday. I enjoyed those days and it's result. I even wondering what would this world could be if all could write as beautiful as he did. Mariska Lubis