A lovely quote from Rebecca's Garden that I want to tack onto this personal scrapblog and never lose sight of....
"Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud-turtles, ....
"elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, ...
"brooks to wade in, water-lilies, woodchucks, ...
"bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, ...
hay-fields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; ...
"and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of his education."
-Luther Burbank
My childhood was not perfect. But these things I had (although with a Pacific Northwest flavor). These things drew my heart to God. These things anchored me.
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