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    Mar
    “The duty of the radical artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara

    “The duty of the radical artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”

    — Toni Cade Bambara

    (Source: alphahelicalhair)

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    wordpainting: Nathan Fillion Powerful!

    wordpainting:

    Nathan Fillion

    Powerful!

    (Source: nypl, via ifyougiveachildabook)

  3. 10
    Jul

    Shabbyblogs.com is Awesome Fun!

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    27
    Jun
    Florence Mary Anderson ~ from The Black Princess and Other Tales from Brazil ~ 1916 ~ via

    Florence Mary Anderson ~ from The Black Princess and Other Tales from Brazil ~ 1916 ~ via

    (Source: artofnarrative)

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    Jun
    theatlantic: LeVar Burton on Bringing Reading Rainbow to the Tech of Today What was it like moving from public television straight into app development, a medium with an entirely different set of technical and design constraints? BURTON: It’s very liberating, and incredibly frightening [chuckles]. Because we had to raise the money ourselves — and, obviously, working for myself is a real joy, having spent 30 years working for other people. Every ounce of what we have all put into this is going to benefit on some level us and our families. I really look at this project as what I’m gonna leave behind, and — and it’s good. It’s really, really good. Read more. [Image: Benjamin Jackson] Awesome: Reading Rainbow now has an iPad app.

    theatlantic:

    LeVar Burton on Bringing Reading Rainbow to the Tech of Today

    What was it like moving from public television straight into app development, a medium with an entirely different set of technical and design constraints?

    BURTON: It’s very liberating, and incredibly frightening [chuckles]. Because we had to raise the money ourselves — and, obviously, working for myself is a real joy, having spent 30 years working for other people. Every ounce of what we have all put into this is going to benefit on some level us and our families. I really look at this project as what I’m gonna leave behind, and — and it’s good. It’s really, really good.

    Read more. [Image: Benjamin Jackson]

    Awesome: Reading Rainbow now has an iPad app.

    (via yaykidlit)

  6. 30
    May

    Losing Leo Dillon …

    Leo DillonNEW YORK (AP) — Leo Dillon, the groundbreaking illustrator who became the first African-American to win the Caldecott Medal for children’s books, has died in New York at 79.

    Publisher Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that Dillon died May 26 at Long Island College Hospital from complications after lung surgery.

    Dillon and his wife and fellow illustrator, Diane Dillon, collaborated on a wide range of children’s projects that helped introduce kids of all races to stories of black people worldwide. They won the Caldecott for best illustration in 1976 for “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Folktale.” They won a Caldecott the following year for “Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions.”

    http://omg.yahoo.com/news/childrens-book-illustrator-leo-dillon-dead-79-193615386.html

    I have always been a fan of Leo and Dianne Dillon’s collaborations. Their artwork is so stunning and evocative. My well wishes to his family, and most of all, his wife.

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    May

    Considering Our Humanity - New Curricula Release!

    Considering Our HumanityNew Curricula Release for Gifted Learners!

    Considering Our Humanity is an interdisciplinary, humanities-based curriculum devoted to supporting the burgeoning self-awareness and cultural understanding of gifted elementary and middle school students.

    Considering Our Humanity focuses on feelings, experiences, and ideas communicating the understanding that the individual is part of a larger, global community and also, a unique being deserving love and respect. In this way, Considering Our Humanity teaches students to love themselves while expanding this tenderness and care outward. 

    Considering Our Humanity opens dialogue about philosophical ideas relating to age, identity, ethnicity, compassion, kindness, and altruism while also exploring literary terminology and meaning concerning metaphor, symbolism, and poetry. In this way, Considering Our Humanity blends the disciplines of cultural anthropology, philosophy, religion, mythology, and folklore through the use of extraordinary children’s picture books specifically chosen for their exceptional communication of the human condition. These books include a range of cultures, ages, and both genders so that students are exposed to a variety of views and circumstances. 

    Created for gifted learners, Considering Our Humanity is designed to be shared with individual students or within small classroom settings where open discussion is honored and students’ opinions are shared and regarded respectfully. Considering Our Humanity involves a blend of discussion, classroom activities, and independent explorations so that the learning styles and individual needs of gifted students are met. Considering Our Humanity has been developed with the intention that parents, teachers, and students adapt the curricula to meet students’ specific interests and individual skill sets.

    Considering Our Humanity includes the following with each of the extraordinary children’s picture books being investigated:

    • a paragraph summary of the story
    • a brief overview of the concepts being explored through the story
    • a list of words to define and discuss related to the concepts within the story
    • a list of discussion questions 
    • a list of classroom activity suggestions and ideas for how to engage them
    • a selection of related internet links
    • an independent student activity
    • 45 pages, PDF downloadable format

    Available exclusively through CurrClick.com for $9.99!

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    May
    “What is life?It is the flash of a firefly in the night.It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” — Crowfoot (Isapo-Muxika)

    “What is life?
    It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
    It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
    It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

    — Crowfoot (Isapo-Muxika)

    (Source: alphahelicalhair)

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    May
    From Yahoo News - The New York Times published the adorable back story about the photo—which has been hanging in the West Wing of the White House for more than three years—on Thursday, and it’s quickly become the most-emailed article on the Times’ website. In May 2009, the child, Jacob Philadelphia, was visiting the White House with his father, a former Marine who was leaving his 2-year stint working for the National Security Council as part of the White House staff. The father asked to take a family photo with the president. Jacob said he had a question for Obama, who was then in his fifth month in office. The Times recounts the rest: “I want to know if my hair is just like yours,” he told Mr. Obama, so quietly that the president asked him to speak again. Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, “Why don’t you touch it and see for yourself?” He lowered his head, level with Jacob, who hesitated. “Touch it, dude!” Mr. Obama said. As Jacob patted the presidential crown, … [White House photographer Pete] Souza snapped. “So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked. “Yes, it does feel the same,” Jacob said. As the paper noted, President Obama has largely avoided discussing race during his first term. But the photo “is tangible evidence” that the president “remains a potent symbol for blacks, with a deep reservoir of support.” “As a photographer, you know when you have a unique moment,” Souza told the paper. “But I didn’t realize the extent to which this one would take on a life of its own. That one became an instant favorite of the staff. I think people are struck by the fact that the president of the United States was willing to bend down and let a little boy feel his head.” BEAUTIFUL. 

    From Yahoo News - The New York Times published the adorable back story about the photo—which has been hanging in the West Wing of the White House for more than three years—on Thursday, and it’s quickly become the most-emailed article on the Times’ website.

    In May 2009, the child, Jacob Philadelphia, was visiting the White House with his father, a former Marine who was leaving his 2-year stint working for the National Security Council as part of the White House staff. The father asked to take a family photo with the president. Jacob said he had a question for Obama, who was then in his fifth month in office.

    The Times recounts the rest:

    “I want to know if my hair is just like yours,” he told Mr. Obama, so quietly that the president asked him to speak again.

    Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, “Why don’t you touch it and see for yourself?” He lowered his head, level with Jacob, who hesitated.

    “Touch it, dude!” Mr. Obama said.

    As Jacob patted the presidential crown, … [White House photographer Pete] Souza snapped.

    “So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked.

    “Yes, it does feel the same,” Jacob said.

    As the paper noted, President Obama has largely avoided discussing race during his first term. But the photo “is tangible evidence” that the president “remains a potent symbol for blacks, with a deep reservoir of support.”

    “As a photographer, you know when you have a unique moment,” Souza told the paper. “But I didn’t realize the extent to which this one would take on a life of its own. That one became an instant favorite of the staff. I think people are struck by the fact that the president of the United States was willing to bend down and let a little boy feel his head.”

    BEAUTIFUL. 

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    Summer is a Child’s Time to Dream About the Extraordinary

    Summer means dreams to me - dreams about extraordinary subjects like fairies, mermaids, and Bigfoot. I’ve had a wonderful time teaching summer, gifted homeschooling courses to students about these subjects, challenging their beautiful minds by asking questions about habitat sustainability, sharing folklore that is embraced by cultures as fact, and stirring curiosity about the endless possibilities that we cannot see, but feel.

    Sharing Your Thoughts About the Extraordinary is my emergent writing curriculum based on these teaching experiences. This curricula is ideal for summer writing practice because it’s fun and engages gifted minds in a way that helps them grow. In honor of summer approaching, Sharing Your Thoughts About the Extraordinary is available for $5.99 until September 30. Please enjoy this discount and share it with others.

    Sharing Your Thoughts About the Extraordinary

    $5.99 Discount Link -

    http://www.currclick.com/index.php?discount=98252

    Wishing everyone a lovely summer season!
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Story paves the golden path towards the door to mystery,
the invisible yet tangible threshold bridging the secular to the sacred.
Sharing a vast and magical universe
that continually offers gifts and blessings, both ecstatic and sublime,
story soothes, salves, and inspires - it nourishes who we are.

Paula J. Vaughan, M.H.



Sharing Story
emergent writing and philosophical exploration for gifted learners

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Invaluable Story Sites

American Folklore
American Folklore Society
Encyclopedia Mythica
Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts
Folkstreams.net
Joseph Campbell Foundation
National Geographic
SurLaLune Fairy Tales



Gorgeous Web Visits

my vintage book collection (in blog form)
Jackie Morris - Artist
Knitting the Wind
Midori Snyder - In the Labyrinth



About Paula J. Vaughan

I am a mythologist, professor, writer, poet, student advocate, wife, mother, and homeschooling parent. I have a passionate interest in the relationship between story and culture, and the manner in which the heroic for women and men is expressed through each. My blog includes my love of story, beauty, children's picture books, art, and world cultures.

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