Comments on: norm amundson talks about being and doing http://www.moritherapy.org/article/norm-amundson/ making lives better, making better lives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: isabella mori http://www.moritherapy.org/article/norm-amundson/comment-page-1/#comment-644245 isabella mori Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:44:33 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/norm-amundson/#comment-644245 this is very interesting, charles! i wonder whether norm amundson knows about it? this is very interesting, charles! i wonder whether norm amundson knows about it?

]]> By: Charles Pierce http://www.moritherapy.org/article/norm-amundson/comment-page-1/#comment-644079 Charles Pierce Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:56:58 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/norm-amundson/#comment-644079 I was interested to find your blog. My blog at http://chasalex.blogspot.com is a reproduction, page by page, of a book entitled 'Being and Doing' that was popular in the early twentieth century. This is the 1935 edition. It was a Christmas present from my grandmother to my mother in 1942. My mother gave it to me in April 1958 and I read a page every night until 1966. It guided me through a difficult adolescence and early adulthood, as a bearer of Asperger's syndrome, a condition which wasn't identified and labelled until decades later. The book has one page for every day of the year. Just read the page for that date, every day. The pieces are quotes from poets, thinkers, ministers of religion, prominent people and literary figures going back from the early twentieth century to classical times. There are quotes from the Christian bible as well as sacred texts from other religions. Women feature more than you would expect for the time, because this book had among its compilers, women who worked for emancipation and voting rights for women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The pieces have been reproduced here exactly as they appeared in the 1935 book. Some of the language might be antique, gender-specific and politically incorrect, and God is referred to often, in the natural way that people did in former days. <em>Charles Pierce's last blog post..<a href='http://chasalex.blogspot.com/2009/03/april-11.html'>April 11</a></em> I was interested to find your blog. My blog at http://chasalex.blogspot.com is a reproduction, page by page, of a book entitled ‘Being and Doing’ that was popular in the early twentieth century. This is the 1935 edition. It was a Christmas present from my grandmother to my mother in 1942. My mother gave it to me in April 1958 and I read a page every night until 1966. It guided me through a difficult adolescence and early adulthood, as a bearer of Asperger’s syndrome, a condition which wasn’t identified and labelled until decades later.

The book has one page for every day of the year. Just read the page for that date, every day. The pieces are quotes from poets, thinkers, ministers of religion, prominent people and literary figures going back from the early twentieth century to classical times. There are quotes from the Christian bible as well as sacred texts from other religions. Women feature more than you would expect for the time, because this book had among its compilers, women who worked for emancipation and voting rights for women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The pieces have been reproduced here exactly as they appeared in the 1935 book. Some of the language might be antique, gender-specific and politically incorrect, and God is referred to often, in the natural way that people did in former days.

Charles Pierce’s last blog post..April 11

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