Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? We strive for the absolute best in every aspect of our lives, ignoring what we do well naturally, and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure.ĭespite our constant search for new ways to “hack” our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. Do Nothing: How To Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
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Falstaff, meanwhile, cheats his soldiers, whom he leads to slaughter, and takes credit for Hotspur’s death. The trick succeeds, but Prince Hal is summoned to war.In the war, Hal saves his father’s life and then kills Hotspur, actions that help to redeem his bad reputation. Hal and a companion will rob them of their loot-then wait for Falstaff’s lying boasts. Hotspur, Northumberland, and Hotspur’s uncle Worcester plan to take the throne, later allying with Mortimer and a Welsh leader, Glendower.As that conflict develops, Prince Hal-Henry IV’s son and heir-carouses in a tavern and plots to trick the roguish Sir John Falstaff and his henchmen, who are planning a highway robbery. The dispute begins when Hotspur, the son of Northumberland, breaks with the king over the fate of his brother-in-law, Mortimer, a Welsh prisoner. Entire Play Henry IV, Part 1, culminates in the battle of Shrewsbury between the king’s army and rebels seeking his crown.
After a few unconventional encounters, they eventually fall in love. The slow-burn story follows Lily Bloom, a 23-year-old college graduate, who is in the midst of starting a new, simple life in Boston when she meets neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid. I now understand why there is a cult following for this book and the characters in it. I was even more nervous writing a review for it, as, for me, “It Ends With Us” raised the bar for not only all other new adult fiction books, but fiction books across the board. I worried that how I felt about this book would sway my future judgments on other books I find through TikTok. I felt nervous buying BookTok’s most popular book, “It Ends With Us,” by Colleen Hoover. Let’s start a conversation and get those toes tapping. It’s your point of access for creative ways to engage your students through music. Join me in this forum where you can share your lesson plans and get ideas from others. Including musical theater in your classroom has never been easier. It’s a storytelling device where cultural values are seen in the context of music. I’m excited to open up a discussion about the new Songbook exhibit, Of Thee I sing Politics on Stage. It never failed to grab the attention of my students and made past cultures come alive with connections to daily life. For 28 years, music was always a key component in my classroom. My foot starts tapping, fingers start snapping, and I get caught up in the emotion of the song. Welcome to Teaching Notes - a blog series written by a teacher to help other teachers #TeachtheSongbook.Ī Note from the Author: I can’t imagine life without music. By high school, cognizant that he was neither athletic nor mechanically adept, he began to slip away during spare time to read Dickens and Thackeray, among others. Seidensticker was raised Catholic and was of German, English and Irish heritage. Seidensticker (née Dillon), was a homemaker. Seidensticker, was the owner of a modest ranch that struggled financially during the 1920s and early 1930s. Seidensticker was born in 1921 on an isolated farmstead near Castle Rock, Colorado. His landmark translations of novels by Kawabata, in particular Snow Country (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1958), led, in part, to Kawabata being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Seidensticker is closely associated with the work of three major Japanese writers of the 20th century: Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Yukio Mishima. His English translation of the epic The Tale of Genji, published in 1976, was especially well received critically and is counted among the preferred modern translations. Translator of Japanese literature, writer, authorĮdward George Seidensticker (Febru– August 26, 2007) was an American noted post- World War II scholar, historian, and preeminent translator of classical and contemporary Japanese literature. Excerpts Henry Huggins was in the third grade. First published on September 6, 1950, it was originally illustrated by Louis Darling. Henry is an ordinary boy who manages to get into funny scrapes with his dog, Ribsy. 1 The book was originally illustrated by Louis Darling and later by Tracy Dockray. The character of Henry Huggins returned in later books and also in a play which was written by Beverly Cleary and Cynthia J. Henry Huggins is the first book in the Henry Huggins series of childrens novels, written by Beverly Cleary. After a comical turn of events, Ribsy finds himself in the wrong station wagon with the wrong children. Henry Huggins is the first book in the Henry Huggins series of children's novels, written by Beverly Cleary. The book was a response to a letter from a child saying, "Where are the books about the kids like us?" One critic called the character of "Henry" the "modern Tom Sawyer." According to the author, Beverly Cleary, back in 1949, when she wrote it, she declared that she was surprised to have written it at all. The book was originally illustrated by Louis Darling and later by Tracy Dockray. Henry Huggins is the first book in the Henry Huggins series of children's novels, written by Beverly Cleary. It’s inherent in the United States’ abject ambivalence regarding its role as an imperial superpower. Daniel Immerwahr makes it pretty clear that any ignorance of the status of these islands, or the history of Hawai’i and Alaska, isn’t just a failure of the education system. But I’m not going to spend my entire review dissing the American education system. Did you know that the US owned the Philippines from 1898 to 1946? I didn’t! To be fair, I at least have the excuse that I’m Canadian, not American. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States is all about the overseas territories and possessions of the United States of America. Even when you’ve done your best to be diligent and check your biases, at the end of the day, there is just so much history! There’s just so much of it, and it’s just so subject to interpretation depending on the evidence available, the lens you use for that evidence, and your own biases. These days I read history books because I’ve discovered since leaving school that history is actually really, really difficult to learn. I heard about this book on Twitter, I think, and read an excerpt (basically the introduction of the book) in The Guardian, and I was immediately sold. And so begins their dangerous dance, between passion and patriotism, between certain death and the promise of a brave new future together. Worse, the glamorous woman in the midst of this social whirl, the fiancée of his own dissolute cousin, is none other than Kate Grey herself. Immersing the reader in 1777 Philadelphia, sweeping from decadent high-society balls to the filth of battlefield infirmariesa thrilling read. Nor does he relish the glittering entertainments being held for General Howe’s idle officers. A combination of historical espionage and smoldering romance, Thorland’s first novel is a surprising and engrossing tale. Months later, having narrowly escaped court martial and hanging, Tremayne returns to decadent, British-occupied Philadelphia with no stomach for his current assignment-to capture the woman he believes betrayed him. Painfully awakened to the risks of war, Kate determines to put duty ahead of desire, and offers General Washington her services as an undercover agent in the City of Brotherly Love. She is on the verge of surrender when a spy in her own household seizes the opportunity to steal the military dispatches Tremayne carries, ensuring his disgrace-and implicating Kate in high treason. Major Lord Peter Tremayne is the last man rebel bluestocking Kate Grey should fall in love with, but when the handsome British viscount commandeers her home, Kate throws caution to the wind and responds to his seduction. They can trust no one-especially not each other. They are lovers on opposite sides of a brutal war, with everything at stake and no possibility of retreat. He did his army service at a former CCC camp outside Flagstaff, Arizona, which is where he connected with the Navajo people who he continued to visit over the years. Because he could not shun his grandfather for living with his girlfriend, Russ’s family disowned him. His mother “made emulating Christ seem effortlessly rewarding.” Russ left because he was drafted in 1944 with five semesters of college completed. His father was the pastor for the community. Russ leaves the Mennonite community in Lesser Hebron, Indiana where they practice simplicity “to make the Kingdom of Heaven manifest on earth.” He learned about serving others because it was a way of life. Mennonites are often farmers because other careers take them out of their spiritual comfort zone. These simple folks, similar to the Amish people, usually eschew modern machines and inventions, although Russ Hildebrandt’s family did have tractors. Franzen’s main character in Crossroads grew up in a Mennonite family, living in a Mennonite community. My large, unruly childhood family lived next door to a quaint and very tolerant Mennonite couple. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen took me back into my childhood. |