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three things I love: children’s literature, independent bookstores, and teachers and librarians who love the same, and who long, in spite of budget cuts, standardized testing, and technology fever, to expand the bound offerings (by this I mean books, of course) on their classroom shelves. a fourth thing I love: Anderson Bookshop’s Children’s Literature Breakfast, [...]
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this ash wednesday, as a lenten gift to myself and in honor of this Chicago weather, I’m posting a poem–another by Rumi to which I said “hello” on first reading. if you have a poem, or a snippet of a poem to share on reading this, please do post if you’re able. Be Melting Snow [...]
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Music, first. A friend of several decades shared this with me–a wonderful New Year’s gift. Last month at the central market in Valencia, Spain, opera singers disguised as shopkeepers sold produce at various stalls. And when the music of Verdi’s Il Travatore began to play over the loudspeakers… Opera en el Mercado