BlairFor this week’s #ThursdayBooksandBeer I’m revisiting Childhood, the new book by Brendan James Murray, whose previous book, The School, I admired. It’s a memoir that is simultaneously a reflection on teaching and parenthood and the importance of the imagination for children. It’s accompanied by a ‘Sweet Dreamzzz III’ oat cream IPA with Terpenes from Bacchus Brewery, which is sparking my imagination in all sorts of ways. “Talking to my friend on the telephone, the thing that I couldn’t yet verbalise was that I felt that we—teachers, school leaders, policy makers, parents—were missing something important, something we all probably understood instinctively, but hadn’t yet linked with the lives of our children.” #reading #literature #memoir #imagination #craftbeer
Sheila Dee