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Most Fourth Graders Can't Say Why Abraham Lincoln Is An Important Historical Figure? Wow. This Is Far More Distressing Than If The News Had Been That Fourth Graders Were Bad At Reciting Multiplication Tables, Because You Can, In Fact, Google That.

I Had Forgotten How Thrilling A Snow Day Is Until My Son Started School, And As Much As He Loves It, He Swoons At The Idea Of A Free Day Arriving Unexpectedly, Laid Out Like A Gift.

The World Is So Huge That People Are Always Getting Lost In It. There Are Too Many Ideas And Things And People Too Many Directions To Go. I Was Starting To Believe That The Reason It Matters To Care Passionately About Something Is That It Whittles The World Down To A More Manageable Size. It Makes The World Seem Not Huge And Empty But Full Of Possibility.

I Think Of Myself As Something Of A Connoisseur Of Procrastination, Creative And Dogged In My Approach To Not Getting Things Done.

I Love Tearing Things Out Of The Ground. I Love Digging And Discarding. I Love Pruning. In Fact, I Love Pruning So Much That I Once Gave Myself Carpal-tunnel Syndrome Because I Attacked A Trumpet Vine With So Much Dedication.