Tag: seasons
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Before HGTV, before Ty Pennington or Joanna and Chip Gaines, before This Old House even, Charlotte Brontë wrote about the dullness of life in orphanages and the solitary life of a governess in Jane Eyre. As Jane moves from situation to situation, she comments on the decoration of her living situation. In each case, the …
November 3, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In celebration of fall color, today’s blog offers excerpts from both Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold. Both passages celebrate life, love and the mystery of nature. They also ask deep questions about the human place within nature. Changing colors and seasons present the …
July 15, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog. Summer is a time of travel. More vacations are taken during the summer than any other time throughout the year. Friends and relatives visit, kids laze around pools or fields and school is out of session. Summer is very likely the only time …
August 7, 2015 A few years ago, the New York Botanical Garden hosted a beautiful event dedicated to Emily Dickinson. They created a facade of her house and gardens in an attempt to demonstrate a living portrait of the Dickinson world. Many students of literature may be surprised to know that Dickinson was an amazing …
