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Autumnal Reading Inspirations and Recommendations
Make a large cup of tea and get comfortable. We are going to talk about fall reading! Since September is considered ‘the other new year’, now is a good time to reassess your reading life and to choose some books with intention and anticipation. Autumnal books have atmosphere and awaken a feeling of nostalgia, decay,…
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How Can I Write in Times Like These?
Writers often discredit their work. The ‘real’ world is falling to pieces, whether politically, emotionally, financially or whatever. Bigger things should be done than sitting quietly at a desk writing words that may or may not ever be read. I have never heard someone say, How can I knit in times like these? Or how…
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Harvest Song
Riding down the country road, nothing’s lonely asa dirty pickup truck, a creaking saddleand wind blowing;nothing’s empty asover the open plaina desert skysifting the sand;nothing’s sadder thanwandering trails,always searchingthe golden fieldsfor a dream;you’ll only hearthe warm autumn sunturning the grain to gold,the song of the saddleand old days rememberedwhen you are lonesome, too;searching the skywhen…
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Links to Recipes and What I’m Making For Supper
Fall often brings cooking inspiration, and something about the change, the weather, the shift to indoors that I know is coming, makes me want to cook and bake more. I don’t consider myself much of a cook, but I knew there were a few recipes on So She Reads. I gathered them together and see…
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The Bookmark: August
Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book, Vincent van Gogh,1888, oil on canvas, Arles, France. August tends to feel momentous. One notices a feeling in the air. There’s a birthday. There’s the end of summer that’s so sad and sweet at the same time. There’s the garden harvest that’s now or never. There’s…
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The Christian Hymnal: A Review
There’s a local legend about a statician who kept track of songs sung in church at a particular congregation. On the spreadsheet, he found the most often led song was number 35, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. It was sung eight times over a span of five years. Is that all the oftener we…
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