The joys of life are simple things
We find along the way:
A pleasant thought about a friend
Can brighten any day.
We cannot see tomorrow
For it lies around the bend,
But we can make today more precious
When we share it with a friend.

(Found in my Mother's correspondence.  A note from Lola Jackson.  Author unknown.)

Today Marg Buller ~ Meet the Author 1:00 p.m.  Tea & Coffee Pot's Always on. . .

"From an early age, my shelves were bursting with books about every subject imaginable.  My mother spent hours reading aloud to her children."

~ Franky Schaeffer, (b. 1952) American author, screenwriter, film director.

Photo:  Benjamin & Dad Reading Dinosaurs.

House and Home

A house is built of logs and stone,
of tiles and posts and piers;
A home is built of loving deeds
That stand a thousand years.

~ Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist
(Feb. 26, 1802, - May 22, 1885)

"A house is built by human hands,
but a home is built by human hearts."

~ Anonymous

"There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry ~

This Traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of Toll ~

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human Soul!"

~ Emily Dickinson , American poet (1830 - 1886)

According to Wikipedia, 1,775 poems have been written by E.D.

Watch for updates: Reading ~ Emily Dickinson.  Neil Paul will return to The Neat Little Bookshop.

Cayuga and District Community Policing Committee 

Hosting a CRASH RE-ENACTMENT
Saturday, May 12th. at The Village Green
on Cayuga and King Streets 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Safety Demonstrations.  Prizes.  B.B.Q.
Toonie Sledge-Hammer Car Smash

  

Backhoe at the Bookshop ~

Scene on Talbot Street Today







Preparation for New Bridge

 

On Being A Mother ~

"I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves."

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe to her twin daughters, 1861
American author, abolitionist (1811 - 1896)