Papa Green Bean

07/17/2024

Free spaces are the best ❤️☮️🌍

“Libraries matter for the same reason parks matter. Because to blossom, human beings need public spaces that enable play, freedom and social contact without any ties to consumption. Think about it for a moment: there aren’t that many left.

All we see in the street is for sale, pushing us to measure ourselves by how much we can own instead of how much we can feel and think and imagine. A library is a contemporary haven in that sense. A place that holds a million doors into a million worlds, and they’re all at your reach. For free.”

~Laia Jufresa

07/13/2024

Thanks,Free Range Learning.

"Childhood is a short season."

~Helen Hayes

07/13/2024

"Childhood is a short season."

~Helen Hayes

12/31/2023

Happy New Year! Keep learning in 2024!
Grand papa green bean

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn.

Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”

― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

12/25/2023

“Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…”

12/13/2023

Peace to all
☮️❤️🌍
Grand papa green bean

I don’t know what to say or do in this current world of crisis.

11/08/2023

11/04/2023

"Your wish is my command." It's a phrase that originates in the Arabic folk tale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. It's what the g...

11/03/2023

Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself. ~William Martin

(Art: Painting by Gustav Klimt)