Addiction

to these little chocolate berry candies that melt
in your mouth.
I put them in my bag during two graduations
last weekend. Evan graduated Sunday from
Appalachain State Univ. and the mountains
were singing.
I passed the bag around to share.
Got hooked on them!

Also hooked on reading ~~ have you read
this book?
It is one of the best books ( although I loved
rereading My Antonia and may post some
poems my students wrote on the characters )
that I have read in a long time.
It spans age levels and is excellent writing:
all about Chanticleer , a rooster. It is based
on Chaucer's Nun's Priest Tale. When you
fall into the tale of a rooster crowing, you
know it is good writing! When you want to
read it to a 3 year old and a 55 year old, it is
a good book!

Hope you have gone to Google today

Really cool.
Martha Graham.

Thinking upon graduations.....

In our liquid time, art needs to become the aroma of bacon and eggs. It is not the art of the novel, but the art of the familiar that awakens our memory of the core essence of our lives, to the morning of our twelfth birthdays.

Makoto Fujimura

Weekend upon us

( Highlands, NC ...last June)

A tried saint, like a well-cut diamond, glitters much in the King's crown.

Spurgeon , Morning and Evening
( Evening ~~~ today)

Commencement Address

Makoto Fujimura
at Belhaven University,
Jackson, Mississippi
this past weekend.
Read it on his
website.

" The Aroma of the New"

Willa Cather takes us to the West

Last book we are reading
in my high school literature class.
Amazing digging into the ideas just
in the beginning of Manifest Destiny
and immigrants and caring for
widows and orphans.

"The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."
— Willa Cather

A new month

April came to an end.
May is here.
Graduations this week
for one son , girlfriend,
and nephews. College,
Grad School and Medical
School.

Celebrating
the end of one journey to
the next like the turning
of the calendar. A turn is what
is going to happen! Much
preparation to the turn in the
path.