After last week's appearance in The Atlantic, Danielle Crittenden’s upcoming memoir, Dispatches from Grief: A Mother’s Journey Through the Unthinkable, was excerpted this week in The Daily Mail.
Early reactions to the book have been remarkable. Here’s New York Times columnist David Brooks:
“Dispatches from Grief moves with the power of a freight train over rough terrain. Danielle Crittenden makes us eyewitnesses to the hour-by-hour crawl through grief. What I will remember forever is the transformation of the griever; the steady, unpredictable process of ripping and restitching; and the resilient enormity of a mother’s love…Crittenden has been through hell, but has not emerged with empty hands.”
Dispatches From Grief will be published by Infinite Books on 5 May. You can pre-order your copy on our website or on Amazon.
Sunday, 26 April
Two thoughts from Seymour Papert
“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.”
“The reason most kids don’t like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.”
Monday, 27 April
Two thoughts from Fritz Perls
“We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.”
“If you are bored, you are not paying attention.”
Tuesday, 28 April
Two thoughts from Irvin D. Yalom
“Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.”
“When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.”
Wednesday, 29 April
Two thoughts from Stanislav Grof
“Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.”
“Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.”
Thursday, 30 April
Two thoughts from Jacob Burckhardt
“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.”
“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
Friday, 1 May
Two thoughts from Walter Pater
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
“Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.”
Saturday, 2 May
Two thoughts from Edgar Guest
“If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.”
“Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.”
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