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Margaret Mahy has died
The world is a little bit smaller today than it was. A literary Giant, a fun personality, a wordsmith, an author... Margaret Mahy died yesterday ( Read more... ) -
shades of overlapping blue...
"I know this sky, its shades of overlapping blue. I've memorized its patterns, the wispps of the northern lights. From here, I can't see the colors in the aurora borealis, only the white funnels against the night ( Read more... ) -
Men esteem truth
Still Thoreau, but this time from Walden ( Read more... ) -
Consciousness in Concord
More quotes from Consciousness in Concord - one of Thoreau's journals ( Read more... ) -
On Libraries
These people seem like my kind of people:
Reading addiction all in the family for Hutt libraries' biggest borrowers
That's an impressive total of books! -
Bare trees and a want for books
I love reading books that make me want to read other books. Madeleine L'Engle is like that, a bit, though more than books she makes me want to listen to the classical music that she mentions in her book ( Read more... ) -
Geometry
Okay, whose bright idea was it to buy people round plates for Christmas? They're devilishly hard to wrap.
However, also on that note, whose idea was it to buy STARFISH SHAPED plates for people for Christmas? They're even HARDER to wrap!!!
Squares and rectangles and boxes are oh so much easier! -
More numbers game
Days until Christmas: 17 ( Read more... ) -
Song
I don't know what it is about this time of year - though it's possibly the whole "Summer is coming!" thing - but I keep wanting to break out into song. I'm not usually like this, but sometimes ( Read more... ) -
Books and TV Shows
I'm listening to an audio book of "Drawing Lessons", by Tracy Mack. Some time in the long distant past I'm sure I read the book - I don't remember when, but a lot of the story rings bells for me ( Read more... )