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WIST Quotations

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, “Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!” This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 1 “Peter Breaks Through” (1911)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/74486/

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Court Cantrell will not comply

Well, I'm wrecked for the day. 😭😭😭

"Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?"

Don't fill up on bread
I say absent-mindedly
The servings here are huge

My son, whose hair may be
receding a bit, says
Did you really just
say that to me?

What he doesn't know
is that when we're walking
together, when we get
to the curb
I sometimes start to reach
for his hand

—Robert Hershon

#poem
#poetry
#family
#GrowingUp
#parenthood
#SheWillAlwaysBeMyBabyGirl

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"As I watched Max walk off with a group of foreign strangers into an unknown land, it felt like a glimpse of my future, and his. I was slowing down, and he was speeding up."

For The New York Times Magazine, Paul Tough writes a lovely essay about a father-son trip to #Uzbekistan and watching his child come into his own: nytimes.com/2024/03/17/magazin

The New York Times · The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s LifeBy Paul Tough
#Longreads#Essay#FathersAndSons
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Rasta

@NovaNaturalist But, these weren't geared to kids, the market was the Adult service member and included Jim Reeves, but not Jethro Tull. I bought my first #PinkFloyd Album, #UMMAGUMMA in Soest, Westphalia in 1969 #Teens #GrowingUp #Europe #Germany

We began collecting German music that was available, like Heintje (A child singer made famous) I have very strong feelings from this period. Really, I think all people remember this as their most impressionable era growing up? At least in #Music

The front Album Cover of Pink Floyd Ummagumma. The album is setup with a photo of the band members in 4 positions, and a picture on the wall, shows the same view but all the members are in the other member's former position. With the same photo on the wall, in which they change places again ,supposedly into infinity, you can't see back further than 3-4 levels.
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Bob Jamieson

20,000 Species of Bees review – lovely, heartfelt Spanish trans drama

The child at the centre of this lovely, heartfelt drama is an eight-year-old (a remarkable turn from Sofía Otero, winner of the prize for best leading performance at the 2023 Berlin film festival), who, throughout a summer spent with her mother’s family in the Basque Country, begins to assert what she knows to be true: that she is a girl

theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/

the Guardian · 20,000 Species of Bees review – lovely, heartfelt Spanish trans dramaAn eight-year-old struggles with her gender identity one long, hot summer in Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s beguiling debut feature
#film#transgender#GrowingUp
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Bob Jamieson

Too much too young: I talked to 10,000 children about pornography. Here are 10 things I learned
Young people are growing up online, just a few clicks away from explicit content. As part of a theatre project, I asked them a simple question - what do you think about it?
Between 2016 and 2022, I spoke to around 10,000 children and young people aged between six and 22 about the impact of pornography on their lives.

theguardian.com/society/2023/s

The Guardian · Too much too young: I talked to 10,000 children about pornography. Here are 10 things I learnedBy Guardian staff reporter
#pornography#internet#children
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Erin Conroy

The 10 yo: "It breaks your psyche when you figure out that you're not the real center of the universe."

"Like, when you think about your planet, that you're on, not being at the center of the universe, & being quite miniscule in fact, & unimportant, it just breaks your mind. Just to think about that."

"But to think that the universe does not revolve around you...it's impossible."

[Ed: I still recall the first time I had a similar realization as a kid]
#DeepThoughts #GrowingUp #ClimateAction

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