Maureen Jennings, keynote speaker, Authors' Book Fair 2016 Port Dover

 

 

 

 

 

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes." ~ Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975) American playwrite, novelist, three-time winner of Pulitzer Prize.

 

 

 

How easy to work with birds singing and sunshine! [View from my desk]

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Looking West on the New Bridge

Looking Southwest

Looking South From the Bridge

 

Significant Progress on The New Bridge

One-Way Traffic

Huge Delivery

Lowering

Lowering Stairs

 

 

It has been a busy - read "hectic" - couple weeks;  may we get back to leafing through some great books, quoting some passages and bringing to you some of our displays and events.

"In in case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." ~ Mortimer J. Adler

 

Author Brad Smith

 

Signing New Release "ROUGH JUSTICE"

 
 

THE TREE

I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old
That grew elm-oak amid the wold.
'Twas not until the gods had been
Kindly entreated, and been brought within
Unto the hearth of their heart's home
That they might do this wonder thing:
Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood
And many a new thing understood
That was rank folly to my head before.

~ Ezra Pound ( b.1885 - 1972) American poet, author, critic.

 

 

 

Daffodils April 2, 2016

Daffodils April 1, 2016

APRIL 1885

Wanton with long delay the gay spring leaping cometh;
The blackthorn starreth now his bough on the eve of May:
All day in the sweet box-tree the bee for pleasure hummeth:
The cuckoo sends afloat his note on the air all day.

Now dewy nights again and rain in gentle shower
At root of tree and flower have quenched the winter's drouth:
On high the hot sun smiles, and banks of cloud uptower
In bulging heads that crowd for miles the dazzling south.

~ Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930) Britain's poet laureate.  Known for many hymns.

~ Chief Modern Poets of ENGLAND AND AMERICA
MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1936 (First ed. 1929)