Hannelore Heinemann Headley 1936 ~ 2012

Triple H Publishing St. Catharines, Ontario

"The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."  ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

"Remember that if the opportunities for great needs should never come, the opportunity for good deeds is renewed day by day.  The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."  ~ Frederick Wm. Faber

"The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth or courage." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This I resolved on ~ to run, when I can, to go, when I cannot run; and to creep, when I cannot go."  ~ John Bunyan

~ COURAGE, A Little Book of Brave Thoughts, Edited by Harold Whaley, Peter Pauper Press, 1971.

Third Thursdays in the Bookshop

POETRY & POETS ~ Thursday, August 15, 1:00 p.m.  Enjoy a casual afternoon with local poets.  Do you have a favourite poem or poet?  If you missed last month's reading with Dr. Alan Bishop, there will be an opportunity on Thursday to ask Alan to share once more some of his work.  John Passfield will be here. There will be light refreshments and of course, "The coffee pot's always on..."  With the construction of our new bridge, plan to park on Cayuga Street.  See photos below.

Intersection Cayuga Street at Talbot (Hwy #3)

Bookshop-by-the-Bridge

THE BUTTERFLY'S DAY.

FROM cocoon forth a butterfly

     As lady from her door

Emerged ~ a summer afternoon ~

Repairing everywhere,

Without design, that I could trace,

Except to stray abroad

On miscellaneous enterprise

Photo: lbw

The clovers understood.

Her pretty parasol was seen

Contracting in a field

Where men made hay, then struggling hard

With an opposing cloud,

Where parties, phantom as herself,

To Nowhere seemed to go

In purposeless circumference,

As 't were a tropic show.

And notwithstanding bee that worked,

And flower that zealous blew,

This audience of idleness

Disdained them, from the sky,

Till sundown crept, a steady tide,

And men that made the hay,

And afternoon, and butterfly,

Extinguished in its sea.

~ Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Chatham River Press, 1986.

REMINDER FRIENDS:  August Third Thursday, 15th at 1:00 p.m., Poems & Poets, a round-table sharing favourite poems.  Everyone welcome.  Every third Thursday of the month an informal reading of poetry or prose ~ or sometimes a Fascinating Personality of literature or other.

Yesterday we witnessed a motorcycle roar past the bookshop door on the sidewalk ~ we can only guess ~ to escape the traffic.  The construction of the new bridge, the restriction to 30 Km. speed limit, the narrow lanes and the improvements in progress along the highway, all trying drivers' patience.

Last week a friend's vehicle was t-boned and rolled at the intersection beside Foodland.  Unimaginable in a small village where traffic normally moves slowly and  orderly.  Our friend hung upside down dangling in her seatbelt for forty minutes while a passerby kept pressure on her arm where she had an injured artery.  She had to be cut from her vehicle.