Wordsworth

My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold ` William Wordsworth c.1807

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

(Wordsworth and Constable seem to be similar types.)

Wivenhoe Park, Essex ` John Constable c.1816

Influences And Correspondences ` some ..., in order

Stuart Little ` E.B. White, Garth Williams pictures c.1945 (read with me by my father)
Now We Are Six ` A.A. Milne, decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, c.1927
McElligot's Pool ` Dr. Seuss c.1947
The Long Ships ` Frans G. Bengstsson c.1943: in the 10th century, following the adventures of Orm.
The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle ` Hugh Lofting, illustrations by the author, c. 1950, originally published 1922.
Before and After Dinosaurs ` Lois and Louis Darling c.1959
The Human Comedy ` William Saroyan, illustrations Don Freeman, c.1943
Babar The Elephant ` Jean de Brunhoff c. 1931

The Odyssey ` Francis Fitzgerald translation, Hans Erni drawings c.1961, with dedication "for my sons and daughters."
Jane Eyre ` Charlotte Bronte, originally published c.1847
The Story of Pasquaney 1895-1960 ` C. Mifflin Frothingham c.1960
A Light in The Forest ` Conrad Richter c.1953 (a Fenn School read, Concord MA))
The Appalachian Mountain Club Guide to Trails in the Mountains of New Hampshire ` c.1962 
The Elements of Style ` William Strunk and E.B. White c.1959, 1962 ("To Nat Slater- who has style! - 6/10/65 Dad")

In Wildness is Preservation of the World ` Elliot Porter c.1962,  The Sierra Club

Walden, or Life in the Woods ` Henry David Thoreau c.1854

Civilisation: A Personal View ` Kenneth Clark c.1969, book version of the television series
A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid ` Watson J.D. and Crick F.H.C., Nature 171, 737-738 (1953), all on one page including a diagrammatic figure produced by whoever.
The Future As History ` Robert L. Heilbroner c.1960 (a Middlesex School read, Concord MA)
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion ` James Frazier c.1915 (a Middlesex School read, Concord MA)
The Poetics ` Aristotle, S.H. Butcher translation, with Francis Fergusson Introduction c.1961 (a Middlesex School read, Concord MA)
Down the Emperor's Road With Hiroshige ` Reiko Chiba edited, Charles E. Tuttle bound c.1965
The Adventures of Tintin ` Georges Remi c.1930-1963
Bird ` Lois and Louis Darling c.1962
Modern Algebra and Trigonometry ` Elbridge P. Vance c.1962 (a Middlesex School textbook, Concord MA)
Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance ` Kenneth Clark c.1960 (The Wrightsman Lectures, New York University Institute of Fine Arts)

Architecture Without Architects ` Bernard Rudofsky c.1964 (A Cornell read)
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years ` Carl Sandburg c.1954
Worms ` Lois and Louis Darling c.1972 {a Cornell read)
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture ` Robert Venturi, with Denise Scott Brown, Vincent Scully introduction, MoMA NY (A Cornell University read, Ithaca NY)
Robert Frost Poetry and Prose ` Edward Connery Lathem and Lawrence Thompson edited (a Cornell University read, Ithaca NY)
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization` Michael Kammen c.1972, Pulitzer Prize for History 1973. (a Cornell course read)

E.B. White ` correspondence c.1978
The Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth ` The Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition and Hoving monograph
East of Eden ` John Steinbeck (read in The Frick Art Museum courtyard, and at The Central Park Zoo, during lunch break)
The Moosewood Cookbook ` Mollie Katzen c.1977
On Growth and Form ` D'Arcy Thompson c.1919 and 1992 (A Rockefeller University, University of Pennsylvania, Bockus Research Institute/Bryn Mawr College read)
The Function of Reason ` Alfred North Whitehead c.1929
O Pioneers! ` Willa Cather c. 1913, 1941

Going to the Potty ` Fred Rogers c.1986
I am a Bunny ` Ole Risom, illustrations Richard Scarry c.1963
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information ` Edward Rolfe Tufte c.2001
Harry Potter ` J.K. Rowling

Precalculus with Trigonometry ` Paul A. Foerster c.2007, Key Curriculum Press (Alamo Heights High School, Texas)

"What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms – yet. But I think I can recognize it when I see it; and I am looking at it now. Ruskin said: ‘Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.’" Civilisation: A Personal View ` Kenneth Clark c.1969, book version of the television series
 

Arts & Maths, With Pictures

Hiking Boots ` graphite c.1977

The beginning, after all, was the middle school English Award, producing the annual Lantern issue with captioned pictorials of what went on with who was there. 

But, before that was seeing the wonderful captioned picture sequences (with maps) which described our summer camp boy adventures (produced by the bookkeeper, thumbtacked to a dining hall wall).

One day, on the window shelf by the favorite chair, in the high school library, there was Bird, illustrated non-fiction c.1962 by Lois and Louis Darling. 

Cornell had rowing on the crew team, reading history, re-reading Robert Frost’s essays about writing (the latter brought to light by a high school teacher whose teacher at Amherst had been Robert Frost), and love; being where E.B. White first read The Elements of Style, appreciating the natural world as well the art and planning of architecture building a thing into which you can go and be at home. 

Well, school for my own children was important. I created content for them which hinged on their play,  doodling about; children know when they do their best, and we get countless opportunities to rejoice in that. 

Maths and sciences are words put into numbers.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme." Mark Twain

The Big Idea

Work In Life

I felt the ABC, as illustrated non-fiction, can be developed a bit, out of care.

It was meaningful to explore forest paths; to talk about what’s there and who we are, return from that, and make picture stories of the adventure, and be relaxed.

'Abc Dadb' elements first gathered together, in the context of a verse writing class (Robert Morgan), drawing class (Zevi Blum), and oil painting class (Gillian Pederson-Krag), at Cornell, working at The Temple of Zeus Cafe, in Goldwin-Smith Hall. The start of it was coupling talk about summer with drawings of life in Ithaca, using watercolors and colored pencils too.

This was made in summer 1976, following graduation from Cornell.

"Art is just another word for feeling." John Constable

Growing Up

I continued teaching, designed and built homes and interiors, reworking pictures and writing into the form of what they apparently were, to be, cooking. My own father loved tennis, cooking, and a useful book. The important part of life, has been staying at home with the kids, helping them with their projects, out of care, the kindness of that being the gift of time. 
Art and writing were always around for that.

"To the land vaguely realizing westward,

But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,

Such as she was, such as she would become."

Robert Frost, “The Gift Outright” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost.