People need homes: children assume their parents’ place as home; boarders call school ‘home’ on weekdays; married couples work together to build new homes; and travelers … have no place to call ‘home’, at least...

No young man believes he will ever die. It was a saying of my brother’s, and a fine one. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods....

Les Brown and his twin brother were adopted by Mamie Brown, a kitchen worker and maid, shortly after their birth in a poverty-stricken Miami neighborhood....

Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was about to be lost forever, by the U.S. education system. Remarkably, he could read, yet, in spite of his reading skills, Steve was failing....

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and lay around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow......

WindflowersWindflowers,windflowersmy father told me not to gonear themHe said he feared them alwaysand he told me that theycarried him awayWindflowers,beartifulwindflowersI couldn't wait to touch themto smell them I...

Fair Daffodils, we weep to seeYou haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising SunHas not attained his Noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting dayHas runBut to the Even-song; And, having prayed together, weWill go with you...

I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals ... they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long....