Agrarian Adventure ~ 'The Jones Family'

"Just like most of you, I am passionate about education.  Not just the type that happens in a desk or at a kitchen table, but also the kind that comes by observing creation.  No matter where we come from, what we believe, or who we think we are, we are impacted by and make an impact on the environment in which we live..... However, some struggle to make this green connection.  Urban lifestyles, limited resources, and a lack of knowledge stop many from finding an agricultural teaching model.  Today, with an increase in urban and small scale gardening opportunities, every homeschooler (or public school parent) can include a significant portion of agrarian adventure in their child’s life."

~ The Jones Family

More at  https://modernexodus.wordpress.com
Picture from http://blog.freshharvestga.com

Harmonious Families ~ Willa Cather

“One realizes that even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour’s household, and, underneath, another – secret and passionate and intense – which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him. One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day . . .” 

~ Willa Cather

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather

Artwork from Edward Bawden  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bawden

Real Income ~ Ed Begley Jr

“I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it’s not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It’s the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.”

~ Ed Begley Jr.

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Begley,_Jr.
Artwork by Giuliana Lazzerini  http://www.giulianalazzerini.com/about/

Now is the Time ~ Marie Curie

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

~ Marie Curie

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

Artwork from  Ele Willoughby

 http://printsy.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/printsy-interview-ele-willoughby.html