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Summer Organization Recs

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“To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.”

-Anon

Things to Organize your Summer:

1. Franklin Covey or Mead organizers/planners (I really do find that this helps a lot. It sets out the entire summer at your fingertips and you can keep track of appointments, playdates that you might plan ahead for.)

2. For bins and baskets:

Crate & Barrel

The Container Store

Target and Staples have a great selection of bins, baskets, and boxes.

3. Find out when kids eat free to ease up summer cooking and to stay on budget.

 

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly asking exciting discoveries.”

-A.A. Milne

Collecting

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I have collections of quirky things from places I’ve been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

–Emma Watson

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

–Sister Corita

Collectors are happy people.

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The art one chooses to collect becomes a self-portrait.

– Dennis Heckler

What is a collector? It’s an innate trait. We start as children collecting leaves, or stamps or stones and, as we get older, teens collect friends, CDs and, as an adult, it can be anything.

-Edgar Paulik

History

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History: gossip well told.
~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
~Hendrik Wilhelm van Loon, The Story of Mankind

History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~John W. Gardner

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
~Author Unknown

History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
~Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
~George Santayana

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato
History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler.
~Henry Glassie

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
~George Macaulay Trevelyan

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
~John Terraine

History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.
~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary