Daily Life on Paper:  Journals, Sketchbooks and Cookbooks

 

 

Keeping a record of your everyday life, through what you see, experience and cook, will be discussed at the free public talk titled "Daily Life on Paper" at The Neat Little Bookshop, 29 Talbot Street in Cayuga at 1:00 p.m. on February 19.  Guest speaker Cindy Presant, a local artist, will discuss the significance of handwritten records and how these records can be used as ways to understand yourself and preserve the stories of your life.  She will share simple ways to start a journal, sketchbook or cookbook using paper-based methods.  Attendees are encouraged to bring a handwritten example of their own to share with the group in the second half of the afternoon session.

 

"Daily Life on Paper" is the February-featured talk of the Haldimand Literary Group, commonly known as "Fascinating Personalities" which meets monthly every third Thursday at the bookshop.  The group began meeting several years ago to discuss cultural topics and interesting personalities including local people, artists and authors.  Over the years this has included topics such as china painting, stained-glass art, poetry, self-publishing and famous celebrated artists and authors.  Topics scheduled for this spring are calligraphy, specifically The St. John's Bible Project, by Vickie Peart;  family letters from your family treasury; and "Pompeii" a reading by the author, John Passfield.

 

 

Mark your calendar:  Thurs., Feb. 19 at 1:00 p.m.

 



Freshly Fallen Snow ~

View from Our Window ~ on Monday

"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."  ~  Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Journal January 5, 1856



~ BARTLETT'S Familiar Quotations, Sixteenth Edition, John Bartlett, Little, Brown and Company. 

Along the Heritage Grand River

[Down Stream From Village of York]

It sifts from leaden sieves,
    It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.

It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, ~
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.

It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it rail, by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces ;
It flings a crystal veil

On stump and stack and stem, ~
The summer's empty room,
Acres of seams where harvests were,
Recordless, but for them.

It ruffles wrists of posts,
As ankles of a queen, ~
Then stills its artisans like ghosts,
Denying they have been.

~ Emily Dickinson

[St. John's Anglican Church]

"I love to be alone.  I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

~ Henry David Thoreau

(1817 - 1862) American author, poet, philosopher

Authors and poets write about them.   Artists sketch and paint them.  Photographers capture their beauty.

Many a tree has sheltered animals and birds, providing wildlife their homes.  Trees speak to us from a position of strength and longevity.  We played under trees as children, spend hours sitting beneath them as adults.

We plant trees to commemorate special events.  Trees comfort us when remembering lost loved ones.

The Neat Little Bookshop is launching a Favourite Tree contest in the next few weeks.  We encourage you to think about the trees that have meant something special to you and invite you to submit either a photo or a story telling how a tree, or trees, have played a part in your life.

Deadline for submissions:  May 31, 2015.
[Photo:  Cayuga Tennis Court park on the Grand.  lbw]


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