February 10, 2020

Gleanings

This is an extra-large serving of good things to read online. This is not my fault. It’s just that people have been creating so much goodness.

• the story of rebecca of sunnybrook farm begins with bingo
• I was able to be more expressive, somehow, on the page. Freer, funnier (or so I thought), both deeper and more frivolous than with anyone else.
• The future is no excuse. The present is no excuse. You cannot abdicate from loving the world. You cannot abdicate from loving your neighbour. Please sing your songs and paint your pictures and write your poems. Share them all. Have fun. We need art more than ever.
• joyspotting
• Parenting, especially single parenting, has taught me to ruthlessly set my sights on possibilities of flourishing
• I finally found a copy, used, of A Dictionary of Angels, so I can say my own personal angel library is in a happy place.
• Written so effectively that his horror becomes the reader’s, is the exact reason why I do not like to read books about diseases. But what do you do when your book club chooses the very title you’ve tried to avoid?
• Everything, and I mean every single element, can be manipulated, cropped, changed, added to, subtracted from, embellished—how are we to tell where reality begins or ends?
• Bye kids, come back when you’re hungry,” our parents said as we walked out the door for our adventures. “Don’t fall off a cliff!” Ah, what unimaginable liberty.
• The Terrifying Joy of Moving Beyond the Meadow of Lost Time
• That’s why I stayed huddled by my lantern in our dark and rapidly chilling living room until I knew how everything turned out. I call that an endorsement!
• I’ve been paying a little closer attention to the barren branches, grasses and dried seed heads in people’s gardens this winter.
• Baking a delicious cake for people you love is not hard; it’s very doable and lovely and even feels good. Baking a cake to feed an entire wedding reception is a whole other thing.
• car trip with kids telling stories
• What’s your tree history?
• dee nickerson’s lovely world
• The in-house vote was strongly in favour of Jonathan, probably because Brenda is not easy to deal with, frightens some people and is so relentless in her pursuit of her agenda about women
• The main thing to remember is to slice and freeze large loaves and take out only enough bread that you’ll use for a day or two.
• Most of us make the mistake of believing we have all the time in the world to right wrongs, speak up for our friends; in short demonstrate our love for them.  Bottom line:  The time has come.

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