tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28604695010536966942024-03-12T18:18:21.562-07:00Being TransformedBonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.comBlogger1652125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-62561488402896789162018-03-14T17:02:00.000-07:002018-03-14T17:03:00.128-07:00that's enough messing around<br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something has changed to get images off the computer. I have spent</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enough time trying to find one for the headliner. I had a snow painting</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Carl Larsson and now a watercolor by Winslow Homer. It drove me </span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">crazy tonight and time seemed to evaporate and the room is getting </span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">darker so evening is here. One hour sprung ahead on Sunday and </span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">everyone is tired. My students were today.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daughter back at school. Grands are doing well. It's quiet around here</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">except this afternoon in <i>The Little Bookroom</i>. It is so wonderful to see</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">children pick out stacks of books to read. They are so attentive and </span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fall in love with a series and authors. It makes me happy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do recommend <i>A Gentleman in Moscow. </i>It's the next Book Club read</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and it reads fast. It reads like a movie. I had seen Phantom Thread recently</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and in an odd way, it reminds me of that except the movie was a love</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">psychological story. It could have been written by Thomas Hardy who </span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">loved love triangles. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I finished with <i>Capital Gaines</i> and read <i>The Magnolia </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Story </i>over Christmas. Their story of how Fixer Upper came about is</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fascinating. I recommend even the audio because the Gaines are the </span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">readers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then there is Marilynne Robinson's new book of essays. I hope</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can understand what we are here for!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-37807396045285395742018-02-28T17:22:00.001-08:002018-02-28T17:22:52.945-08:00SPRING BREAK<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spring Break is here after class tomorrow. We are all ready to be free </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the schedule. Daughter coming home next week. It's so good to stop</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for a week. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New grand is here: Ella Rose</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are smitten!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Working on stopping a cold from taking over me. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had 10 children at The Little Bookroom today who love books, know authors, </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">brought me gifts and hugs. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So good. </span><br />
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Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-32304691202137439652018-01-23T18:10:00.003-08:002018-01-23T18:10:25.659-08:00Hello 2018: Letter Writing<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought about this blog and how I probably haven't said Hello to the New Year</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on this page. Have you gotten use to the number 8 in writing the date? I wonder</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if I have been back in last year on some checks ( I still write checks) or even </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">letters. Yes, I do write letters. Today my students wrote letters to the freshman </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">college students who were Seniors last year in our class. Got them mailed as </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a gift. I read them an excerpt from this book: </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I adore her! Her website <a href="http://www.moreloveletters.com/">Mail More Letters</a> and a short Ted Talk:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Wise Men knew He had come!</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merry Christmas to you. </span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cheers for the New Year!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #999999;">GIOVANNI DA MODENA, The Appearance of the Star, c. 1412, Fresco</span></span><br />
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“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #bf9000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of my favorite words is Annunciation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;"> Fra Angelico's Annuciatory Angel</span><br />
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Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-23882338519080151442017-11-07T14:27:00.000-08:002017-11-07T14:27:29.790-08:00Inspiration<br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> MAKING ALL SORTS OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jessica Chorley from London:</span><br />
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Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-44913209600104351202017-10-29T12:56:00.000-07:002017-10-29T12:56:19.550-07:00Reformation Day.... and a post<br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not on the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation but on a children's author: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Retreat next week titled: Buried Treasures.</span><br />
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For a glimpse into her life, here are excerpts from a letter sent to an Albert Northrop, presumed husband to her niece Elizabeth (Betty):</div>
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Dear Albert,</div>
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Your nice birthday letter should have had an answer long before this, but so many things do seem to come between me and writing even the letters that I want so much to write. The birthday was a very portentous one, my sixty-fifth, which means I am no longer eligible for Bryn Mawr after June; they have to keep me until then. By a singular chance they have given me more work to do than ever before, quite regardless of the fact that in six months I shall be considered totally unfit ...</div>
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You were so good to speak so kindly of Violent Men and Two Arrows. The former had been in hand for a very long time, quite the largest piece of work I had ever undertaken, but it has been the one that I most enjoyed. I have a real passion for history, which grows as the years go by, and was whetted ever more by my seeing some of it being made first hand while I was doing a very humble job in Washington. I realized that if I did not finish it while I was at Bryn Mawr I never would, so I finally succeeded in getting it finished and out of my hands. The Macmillan Company had it for a long time before they published it, so, since I had promised a child's book as the very next thing, I wrote that last year and they came out rather embarrassingly close together. You were a very good friend to read them both. You always give such nice detailed comments, not like the reviewers, or sometimes even the writer of the blurb on the cover who have visibly not got much farther than Chapter six or so ...</div>
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Nina (signed in her hand)</div>
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Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-30220050148135623732017-10-23T19:09:00.000-07:002017-10-23T19:09:31.534-07:00a new book out by Wendell Berry<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just in case you are collecting and reading his books like I am. he has a new book out at the age of 83. Netflix has LOOK AND SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry on right now. Robert Redford is one of the executive producers and financial support of this documentary. </span><br />
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<br />Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-60214745628023979232017-10-12T11:29:00.001-07:002017-10-12T11:29:28.882-07:00Read slowly: The Vision by Wendell Berry<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to stand like slow-growing trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">if we make our seasons welcome here,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">asking not too much of earth or heaven,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">upon the valley sides, fields and gardens</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rich in the windows. The river will run</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">clear, as we will never know it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and over it, birdsong like a canopy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the steeps where greed and ignorance</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the old forest, an old forest will stand,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">its rich leaf-fall drifting its roots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The veins of forgotten springs will have</span></span></div>
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Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-42956096363278013762017-10-11T12:47:00.004-07:002017-10-12T06:34:09.122-07:00 Hello October <br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I can't believe I skipped September on this blog. </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I put my daughter and her roommate on a plane early this morning bound for</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">much to be thankful for. I need to remember that big word: thankful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- second grand due in Feb. </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- a girl, another granddaughter</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- first granddaughter is almost 9 months old</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- she is sitting up</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- classes I teach are going well</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- I am learning alot from teaching these kids who age from 12 - 18.</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- I froze broccoli and green beans this morning </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-love my new pastor: Kevin DeYoung</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- from him is this : <a href="https://christcovenant.org/sermons/i-am-not-the-christ/">I am not the Christ</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- he makes me laugh</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Our God loves laughter</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Reading Jan Karon's new book and Saint Francis by Elizabeth Goudge</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- also lots with my students: The Faerie Queene by Spencer, Plutarch, Macbeth, and Beowulf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- what else? wonderful pumpkin tarts at Amelies! ( local french bakery and cafe)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The word "new" is a good one. New mercies every morning. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Add an "S" and you have news:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-The Little Bookroom Lending Library is opening next week for membership</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Several homeschool moms are coming.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- I teach two classes next week , actually, three. School begins. New Year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Another Grand is on the way and </span><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>she</b> is a <b>girl</b>! Due in late Feb. to #3 son and his wife!</span><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<em style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">"Restlessness, from being a good servant, might become a hard master; indeed he sometimes does become so....the Daemon of Restlessness possesses [people], and they cannot settle to any kind of work or play because they always want to be doing something else. This is a very unfortunate state to get into, because <b>it is only by going on doing one thing steadily that we learn to do it well, </b>whether it be cricket or algebra; so it is well to be on the watch for the moment when Restlessness, the good servant, turns into Restlessness, the unquiet Daemon who drives us about from post to pillar, and will not give us firm standing ground anywhere in life." (Ourselves, </em><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">p. 19 by Charlotte Mason)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a quote to muse on and if you have read the book, I would like </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />"The miraculous survival of goodness was the theme of her life."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It could be this line is just something I saw and want to know more. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting the book from the library to see. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Onward: 39 years to celebrate with my college sweetheart who I actually </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">knew from afar in high school. He had a crush on me!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was down to Gordan Comwell Seminary and we snatched him up to talk one evening. He will be talking on the Imagination. Would appreciate prayers. </span></div>
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Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-29488833151090191802017-05-29T17:23:00.001-07:002017-05-29T17:23:53.997-07:00on my mind<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In a house which becomes a home, </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">one hands down and another takes up </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the heritage of mind and heart, </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">laughter and tears, musings and deeds. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Love, like a carefully loaded ship, </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">crosses the gulf between the generations. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Therefore, we do not neglect the ceremonies </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">of our passage: when we wed, when we die, </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and when we are blessed with a child; </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When we depart and when we return; </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When we plant and when we harvest. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Let us bring up our children. It is not </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the place of some official to hand to them </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">their heritage. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If others impart to our children our knowledge </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and ideals, they will lose all of us that is </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">wordless and full of wonder. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Let us build memories in our children, </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">lest they drag out joyless lives, </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">lest they allow treasures to be lost because </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">they have not been given the keys. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We live, not by things, but by the meanings </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">of things. 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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Give us this day our daily taste. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with, and casseroles that put starch and substance in our limp modernity. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Take away our fear of fat and make us glad of the oil which ran upon Aaron's beard. Give us pasta with a hundred fillings, and rice in a thousand variations.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Above all, give us grace to live as true men - to fast till we come to a refreshed sense of what we have and then to dine gratefully on all that comes to hand.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>the Drive far from us, O Most Bountiful, all creatures of air and darkness; cast out the demons that possess us; deliver us from the fear of calories and the bondage of nutrition; and set us free once more in our own land, where we shall serve Thee as Thou hast blessed us - with the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Amen.” </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tomorrow my students give the Great Speeches of the </span><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">20th Century: dramatic presentations of speeches which turned and tuned history. They had to edit </span><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the speeches down to 10 minutes. We have Teddy Roosevelt's speech he gave in 1912 when he was shot and finished the speech to George Bush on Sept. 20, 2011. Daughter home from college but has </span><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">three final papers due in the next days but she is home. Home cooking and writing a paper for Ethics is first on the list. She's playing </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://raisinglittleshoots.com/">Raising Little Shots: blog</a> from the UK but has good US resources too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring Break sometimes is around Easter but colleges and schools take it earlier</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and not at the same time. Just back from my Spring Break which I took in NYC </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to see my daughter and relatives and sights. It always leaves me thinking upon </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my childhood on Long Island. We visited Sagamore Hill , home of Teddy Roosevelt,</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which is near the village I grew up in. Memories flood my heart and soul. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We moved South in 1968. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bronte Sisters is on... </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be back later. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Did you know this book is the basis for the Broadway musical <i>CATS</i>?</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;"> I am teaching T.S. Eliot to middle schoolers and high schoolers right now. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The names and words tickle the tongue in the poems and are the lyrics for the musical!</span><br />
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Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-74825132537071299422017-03-08T19:01:00.000-08:002017-03-08T19:09:21.725-08:00 dear women to me <br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Very old photo of my oldest brother, <b>my mom, my sister,</b></span><br />
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Bonniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944984613918619990noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860469501053696694.post-32046688195334869802017-03-02T18:27:00.003-08:002017-03-02T18:27:29.772-08:00Lent<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is wonderful to be in Lent, isn't it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heading to<a href="https://goldenhoursofdelight.com/home/"> this </a> on Saturday with the ladies from <a href="http://www.adelectableeducation.com/">this</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These delectable ladies are staying at my house tomorrow night. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">( from The Murmuring Cottage)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- on teaching classes</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- on reading for those classes</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- grading for the classes </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- delightful work from my students </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- catching up on letter writing</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- cleaning out and remembering the word<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Joy-Illustrated-Organizing-Tidying/dp/073520778X"> JOY</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- thinking, it takes work</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- time, working on what gets done first</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- so thankful for technology in so many ways</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- prayers </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- seeing Spring burst forth</span><br />
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