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Metaphor is more than mere poetic flourish in language. It is the very way in which we construct our realities. Roger Brown argues that inasmuch as language is representative, all language is metaphorical. Lakoff and Johnson tell us that metaphors are “concepts we live by”–constructs that shape how we talk, how we understand the world [...]

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We will be attending a homeschooling conference in a couple of weeks, and Aidan was crushed to learn that we could not get into the “Junk Art Sculpture” session as it was completely full. So, we decided to orchestrate our own junk art session. A quick search for junk art turned up the following: CultCase: [...]