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Listening for Stories: Knitting Lessons

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Purple thistle - knitting lessons story

Through a poignant story about learning to knit, Callie Feyen reflects on beginnings, endings, and reminders of mortality.

Filed Under: Blog, Wisdom

The Wisdom of Butterflies

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

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‘The Little Prince’: Not for Grownups

By Megan Willome 8 Comments

To find the wisdom of ‘The Little Prince,’ author Megan Willome says don’t look directly at the story or it will blind you, like sun on desert sand. And don’t be a grownup.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, children, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Wisdom

Flying Backwards: Surprising Wisdom on the Sea

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Lighthouse for Each Other

Where can we learn wisdom? L.L. Barkat finds it in the car and on the sea, while listening to her daughter read an amazing story of one man’s terrifying fall into the waters of the Atlantic.

Filed Under: Blog, Wisdom, Year of Wisdom

Reader, Come Home … to a Ritual to Read to Each Other

By Megan Willome 10 Comments

Start a new ritual! Join us on a new reading journey as we read wisdom to each other with poet William Stafford as our guide and declarer.

Filed Under: A Ritual to Read to Each Other, A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Books, Reader Come Home, Reading and Books, Reading in the Wild, Wisdom

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