“Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.” IfsNeedsFeelingsPerfectPleasureElementsPlantMetaphorSatisfactionPeacefulGardeningNeed You Author:Jane Kaczmarek
“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.” WorldHumansHelpingFeelingsPoetryLanguageLinesSituationImaginePerspectiveHonorNewsToolsDirectMetaphorDetailsMeaningfulGenuinePoetry IsImageryHeadlines Author:Naomi Shihab Nye