I love reading because it is dangerous. The stories shake and dazzle me. The characters relentlessly inspire and change me. The information trips me and sets me flying, drifting, plummeting. The book. That doorway. I never could resist a doorway. I am going to delete Anokaberry Annotated tomorrow. I'd do it right now but I want to give this notice so if any one has me on a favorites, Blogroll, RSS feed, or bookmarks you can let me go. Thanks for having me there by the way. This is post #967. You can find me at Buttonhole, if you want to keep in touch. Or Facebook. For now anyway. I've loved so many parts of this exercise: the discipline finding and booktalking the books, the illustrating of the posts, the sharing in the community of the Kidlitosphere. It has been exhilarating some of the time. The rest of the time I wondered about my sanity. The internet and all its applications is a tyrant. I am in my essence a monk on the path. It has been a joy to connect. Peace.
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I'll miss you here, Nan! But I do understand. I'm scaling my blog back a tiny bit, but that's always hard to do. Good luck!
Jen, my first contact in children's book blogging! I will still be reading you and I hope it's OK if I comment now and then. Thank you for all your support and encouragement.
Of course it's ok if you still comment on my blog now and then, Nan. I'd be very sad if you didn't!
ah, doors... and your way with images and words. i've loved the chance to glance... across the miles. but there are still only 24 hours in a day... and so choices have to be made. i support you doing... whatever you feel you need to do next. but know... this scrolling patchwork internet quilt of images and words has been wondrous to behold. thanks & hugs, librarian philosopher nan. with respect, EJS
SEEDSTYLE -- please do look in on my "quilting" over at buttonhole.
http://nancyhoekstra.blogspot.com/
And, thanks for the affirming words.
I'll miss you! Glad you had fun, but there is often a time to move on. You might find it funny that I am trying to give up quilting so that I can read more. Of course, I have six more boxes of fabric that I need to make into quilts before that happens. Have fun with your new pursuits!
Thank you for commenting. I am a quilter too and I will be in there this morning working! Best to you, Ms.Yingling. I'll check in from time to time. Now for an Earth Day bike ride down to the newspaper box!
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