Little Free Library Impact

A nice story for these troubled days.

 

Via Wyoming State Library social media:

https://bookriot.com/wind-river-reservation-little-free-library/ 

Reminds me that I have to get building my own Little Free Library.

There'll never be enough.

Working for the Summer

I have so much work to complete over the Summer break.

But my wife conscripted me to help in her summer school SPED class for a few days.

 

Here's me wiped out for the afternoon:

...even as Summer seems to be fading away already.

Good Ol' Rocky

 

 What a good dog, too!

 

 

Thank you, Rocky.

The End at the end

I've seen lots of fellow writers lately showing off the words "The End," indicating that they have at last finished a piece of writing.

 I've never written "The End" after finishing a manuscript. Never. 

Always seemed an unnecessary couple of words.

Yet, I've never had a piece of writing, when I looked back over it after any prolonged absence, that I did not want to have another go at editing.

Maybe that's one of my problems: that every work I've ever written is still a work in progress--that they all remain unended.

I'm approaching the finish on a work.

I wonder if writing "The End" at the end will help make it seem more like the end of the end.

 

 

 

Good Ol' Fawset

 What a good dog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Thank you, Fawset.

 

 

 

 

Young Authors Always Inspire

My writing has been slow going lately. I've had a whole lot happening at home and work the last couple months, even as I keep grinding away at a few frustrating pieces that should have been finished by now.

Nevertheless, Young Authors season has returned, and I have once again taken up the task of coordinating the district program.

And, once again, I am astonished as ever to witness the pure joy of writing evident in the work of every young author. And the talent! There's a non-fiction story from a young second grader about her experiences with neurofibromatosis that is pretty much publishable as is. Talk about inspiring. 

So, as I struggle onwards with mine own efforts, I take heart. Our students, who compose the next generation of writers, keep emerging and keep advancing. And I am honoured to keep helping them share their work. And I am inspired to keep working to share mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inauguration Day

Being a Teacher Librarian in a public school, I must maintain an apolitical social profile.

Nevertheless, anyone who knows me knows precisely how I feel about today.