The book Zen Seeing Zen Drawing is about the enhaced view of life that comes from unfiltered seeing and meditative drawing. It is a practic that demands of people that they truly see, as opposed to mere looking.
The Secret Garden Chapter 4
CHAPTER IV MARTHA When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had come into her room to light the fire and was kneeling on the hearth-rug raking out the cinders noisily. Mary lay and watched her for a few moments and then began to look about the room. She…
The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
1 “It was Old Bess, the Wise Woman of the village, who first suspected that the baby at her daughter’s house was a changeling. “For a time she held her peace. Many babies were ill- favored, she told herself. Many babies cried with what seemed fury against the world—though this littleSaaski had not done so…
The Secret Garden Chapter 3 – The Theme of Darkness to Light
CHAPTER III ACROSS THE MOOR She slept a long time, and when she awakened Mrs. Medlock had bought a lunchbasket at one of the stations and they had some chicken and cold beef and bread and butter and some hot tea. The rain seemed to be streaming down more heavily than ever and everybody in…
The Secret Garden Chapter 2
CHAPTER II MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY Mary had liked to look at her mother from a distance and she had thought her very pretty, but as she knew very little of her she could scarcely have been expected to love her or to miss her very much when she was gone. She did not miss…
Titles Selected for the Jacki Kellum Free Family Online Book Looking at Lit – 12 Months of Great Family Books
Following is a list of the 2024-2025 Book Selections for the Jacki Kellum Free Family Online Book Club: Looking at Lit: June 2024 – The Secret Garden Secret Garden Free Text Online at Gutenberg Project The Secret Garden Illustrated by Inga Moore Available for Purchase at Amazon Where the Wild Things Are Available for Purchase…
The Secret Garden is the First Novel for Jacki Kellum’s Free Online Book Club – Beginning for the Family in June
The Secret Garden is the first novel we’ll read together in the Free 2024 Looking at Lit Book Club. Each day, I’ll share a chapter from the Free text of The Secret Garden, which is available at Project Gutenberg. If you want to buy the book, I suggest the beautiful edition of the book illustrated…
The Secret Garden Chapter 1
THE SECRET GARDEN BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Copyright, 1911, by Frances Hodgson Burnett Copyright, 1910, 1911, by The Phillips Publishing Co. CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too….
Alice Walker Short Story The Flowers
Alice Walker The Flowers Alice Walker is the author of the powerful novel Color Purple, which became one of my favorite movies, but she also wrote a short story titled The Flowers. The Flowers By Alice Walker “It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never…
Cottage Garden Living – Garden Ideas & Help All Year Long
Jacki Kellum is an artist and author, but she has also been an avid gardener for decades. Her blog site is at jackikellum.com, but her garden blog is at cottagegardenliving.com. As of May of 2024, she has committed herself to posting garden ideas almost every day on Youtube–sometimes more than one video a day. What…