“Comprehension processes [for young readers] grow.... [when] they leave the surface layers of text to explore the wondrous terrain that lies beneath it.
The reading expert Richard Vacca describes this shift as a development from "fluent decoders" to "strategic readers"--"readers who know how to activate prior knowledge before, during and after reading, to decide what's important in a text"....”
Source: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
“We now know that groups of neurons create new connections and pathways among themselves every time we acquire a new skill.
Computer scientists use the term "open architecture" to describe a system that is versatile enough to change--or rearrange--to accommodate the varying demands on it.”
Source: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
“Small acts of kindness and love rippled out and had more of an impact than they ever could have imagined.”
Source: Spiritual Entrepreneurship: Raw Reflections of a Female CEO
“Being conscious of our trauma, and recognising how it unavoidably manifests itself within our approach to romantic and platonic relations, skies is to strategise our connections. It helps us to it helps us to recognise patterns, set boundaries, take heed of red flags and ultimately aim higher.”
Source: Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
“For me, it would like to really be authentic. And what I mean by that is: you're not authentic when you're being a caricature of yourself. You're not authentic when you see something working for you and you're getting rewarded for it so you start doubling and tripling down on that thing. You're not authentic when you're being a second rate version of somebody else instead of a first rate version of yourself. … You can start to believe your own bullshit. That's the worst, when you get into character and start believing that you really are this dude. So it's like, for me, man, that's what made me like really start like going to therapy and like doing the work, cause I did not like the version of myself that I was becoming. So my advice to anybody would just to just be authentic, always leave yourself open to growth, and don't be afraid of where that growth takes you. I don't give a fuck what people like about you today: if you're growing into something else tomorrow, follow that shit. You know what I mean? Because, if you don't, you're really just stunting your growth, and you really don't know how big you could possibly be. You're putting a cap on you. Like, you're literally putting a limit on how far you could possibly grow, how big you could get, because you're like ‘nope, that's what they like about me, so Imma keep it here.’ As opposed to just leaving yourself open to see what else is out there and how much more you could contribute to grow. So that's what I tell people: be authentic, man, and don't be afraid to grow.”
“Everything is uncertain. Friends become enemies, health becomes sickness, wealth becomes ruin. But we two, we will create one small space of order in the chaos. I will rest on you, you on me, and we will not break. And in that small space, we will have room for human feelings, maybe cruel, maybe tender, full of arguments or never-ending kindnesses, but more important than the nature of the love is the space we create for it to exist.”
Source: Missionaries
“I didn’t have memories, new I made, this,
beneath ancient evergreen Populus trees…
Yes, evergreen Populus trees always are,
yet with cold I’m not one that’s well known to spar…
With gentle headstrongness I made my own path,
with which I can get to the forest(, like Plath)…
In forests, folk sparce are, yet all of the trees,
growing like soldiers, to be many are free…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“Look at what your cruelty created.”
Source: Daughter of No Worlds
“Something about Israel was speaking to me, planting a seed of faith that would one day prove more fruitful than anything I’d ever harvest. It was the beginning of my most important journey, one I wouldn’t fully appreciate until I had far more to lose in this life than I had to gain.”
Source: The Secret Adoption: A Family Memoir
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
Source: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6