Traditions


I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Tomatoes for Neela
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
The Keeping Quilt
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Soul Food Sunday
Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim
The First Blade of Sweetgrass
ʻOhana Means Family
The World Without Us
Future Shock
Powwow Day
A World of Cookies for Santa: Follow Santa's Tasty Trip Around the World
An Orange for Frankie
Kai Po Che by Suhasini GuptaKing for a Day by Rukhsana KhanChinese Kite Festival by Rich LoThe Kite Festival by Leyla TorresBola the festival kite by Anitha Rathod
Kite Festivals in Picture Books
9 books — 1 voter
The Heart of Touqar - THT -  Epic - Vol 1 by Dr.Sara  AhmadThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketSteal the Dragon by Patricia BriggsThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëThe Return of Lum, Volume 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
Accidentally Wed
44 books — 6 voters

A Princess in Theory by Alyssa ColeThe Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangThe Bride Test by Helen  HoangA Prince on Paper by Alyssa ColeSpinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Celebrations in Romance Novels
55 books — 8 voters
Nutcracker by E.T.A. HoffmannChristmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories by L.M. MontgomeryThe Christmas Coat by Virginia Driving Hawk SneveSanta Comes to Little House by Laura Ingalls WilderFelicity's Surprise by Valerie Tripp
Best Christmas Stories for Little Girls
252 books — 12 voters

Seyyed Hossein Nasr
We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better — in other words a complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and th ...more
Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Darwin is often taken as the enemy of tradition, but traditions are just those social institutions that have weathered selective pressures. The longer a thing has survived, the more likely that it serves an adaptive purpose; “racism” is held up as the cardinal modern sin, but ethnocentrism is deeply rooted in our brain structure, therefore ancient. [...] Natural selection is anything but the liberal’s friend. Darwinism is the nail in the coffin of the Enlightenment, which is why you’re not allow ...more
Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

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