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Goodbye Harper Lee

2/19/2016

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The Library: A Good Place to Go

2/9/2016

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This is a Calendar of Days post: Library Lovers' Month
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A Free Little Library in the Neighborhood

2/1/2016

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There is a brick and mortar library in the neighborhood, but still, just five blocks away there is a Little Free Library, a “take a book, return a book” book exchange.

Started in 2009 by Todd Bol of Hudson, Wisconsin, to honor his mother, the concept spread and now there are “over 36,000 registered Little Free Library book exchanges in all 50 U.S. states and over 70 countries around the world.”

Though book exchanges are not a new idea, these are maintained and registered through a community website.

The project has inspired readers and carpenters alike—the libraries are as varied as the towns and cities where they are installed. There is a delightful gallery of images on their Instagram site.

If you’re interested in knowing whether there is one in your neighborhood, the Little Free Library website includes a map page where you can look up your location. That’s where I discovered there are three within just a couple of miles of my home. The one above, I knew about. I found two more on the map and will search them out this week and will take and post photos of them, too.
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UPDATE: found a lobster trap library!

Maybe there's one in your neighborhood.

This is a Calendar of Days post: February is Library Lovers' Month
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New Year, New Light: Big Changes in Small Measure

12/31/2014

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Happy New Year and Winter Greetings!

From pagan celebrations of light to the dropping of the ball in Times Square, these year-end events are widely noted. But these changes take place with or without celebration.

Midnight tonight will slip away in star-filled skies around the world and we'll wake to a new year. We'll move forward hour by hour, day by day, finding ourselves, on occasion, surprised at "how time flies."

And winter.

It begins on the shortest day of the year and then minute by minute the days grow longer. It's hard to notice the difference, but sometime mid-January someone will comment on how much more light there is, and we, too, will see it.

There is a lesson here of course: big changes are made possible by small measure.

As 2014 comes to a close I'm holding fast to big changes from small measures.

Rather than resolutions, I'm working toward goals in 2015. It's an idea that I'm adopting after reading how Chris Guillebeau puts it to work each year. It struck a chord with me and I'm giving it a go.

Working in small measure toward big changes, here's a partial list of my goals for 2015:

Pursuits magazine -  January 2015
This is a big one! I've been working on a prototype and it's time to launch. Pursuits is a print magazine with a focus on hobbies, passions, and pastimes. Designed to help reduce stress, boost creativity, and increase happiness, it is a compendium of activities, how-to, insights and inspiration. I'm very excited about this new magazine and look forward to sharing it with you.

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Learn to Juggle
I spend a lot of time sitting at the computer, and I'm looking for activities to balance the time spent behind a desk . . . a pastime to clear my head. If I'm able to master juggling in the next month or so, my goal is to pick another challenge, playing an instrument . . . I'll keep you posted!

Stationery Line
- I like writing letters and often make my own stationery. I've got lots of ideas and it's time to bring them to life.

What goals will you set in 2015? Write them down, and tell us about them by posting a comment below.





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COLLECTING [Three for Thursday]: Tea Cups

10/30/2014

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What is the critical number to start a collection?

Three seems like the magic number. One of course, is one. Two speaks to a pair. But three looks like the beginning of a collection.

I have six tea cups with saucers, a modest collection for sure, but a collection still the same. They are beautifully delicate and were handed down and gifted to me at different times.

Very often that's how it starts. You receive or purchase something and then people start giving you more.

The fortune-telling tea cup on the top of the stack to the left was a gift. Drop loose tea into the cup, pour hot water over and steep. Drink your tea then swirl and dump the remains onto the saucer. Your fortune is revealed in the images where the loose tea remaining in your cup gathers and clings.

In other cultures and countries, coffee grounds and wine sediment are also used in fortune telling.

Do you have a collection? Have you had your tea leaves read? Tell us about it, post a comment.
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Ikea's New Catalog - Not an eBook, But a "Bookbook"

10/14/2014

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IKEA has a new catalog. They are calling it a "bookbook" and it comes "fully charged" with "tactile touch technology."

For anyone (like me) who still enjoys curling up with a book, thumbing through a magazine, or flipping through a catalog, it's exciting to see a print version. This marketing video is full of creative word play:  Ikea's Bookbook.

Thanks to Chuck Green's Designing Brief for mentioning it.

Do you like reading print magazines and catalogs? Make a comment below and tell us what you think.
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The Library, Check It Out!

6/18/2014

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A real page turner. At least once a week I go to one or another of three branches of my local library. Each branch has its own collection, and holds for all three are available through the main library's website.

I go because there are books on display that I would otherwise certainly miss. I find newly released titles—waiting, it seems, just for me—on the "New Titles" shelf. And very often when I get a recommendation for a book, sure enough, they have it at the library. If you haven't been in a while, check it out!
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