Archive for September, 2015
21st century communications: texting your life away?
Posted: September 30, 2015 in Words and communications0
“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.” – Wendell Berry
Quote of the Week
Posted: September 21, 2015 in QuotesTags: Escape From Spiderhead, George Saunders, literary quotations, quotations, Quotes
“Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess.” – George Saunders, from Escape From Spiderhead
Fun With Language
Posted: September 17, 2015 in Fun with wordsTags: bicycles, bookmobiles, books, libraries, reading
We all are familiar with book mobiles. Those mobile libraries that bring books to communities who do not have a library. The recent evening news had a spot on how some libraries have ditched the gas guzzlers and are now using bicycles with attached carts that have the books. So what do you call a library that comes on a bicycle? “Spoke & Word”. Not kidding, this was stenciled on the side of the cart!
“We do not have to become heroes overnight.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” T.S. Eliot
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