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Copp’s Hill, North End, Boston
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Tagged boston, gravestones, north end, sandals, summer
Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor
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Tagged beaches, boston, ferry, harbor islands, national park, summer
Experiments: Backwards/Forwards
As of this writing I’m planning to move back to the North Shore in September. I will have had a five month stint as a city resident and commuter during which time some might say I made my life needlessly exhausting and complicated. However, I was running several simultaneous experiments which have yielded positive and useful results.
- living in Somerville with old friends for the summer is fun
- lunching with Caper is a housing priority
- attained greater and nuanced appreciation for my job and the community I work in.
If I think of how many times I’ve moved I feel very tired. But if I think of today where I am in my happy treehouse apartment writing on the deck in a breeze with a big cup of coffee- no problem. Each move brings more insight and new opportunities. As my poor patrons know, I’m a physical learner: rearranging the furniture and the books helps me think.
owls on the job.
Couldn’t get too close to Jasper the barred owl- but a Raptor program with fifty kids is a fine way to spend an hour on a Friday afternoon. They asked awesome questions: i.e. Do you ever get more than one owl in an egg?
Further research is needed.
I also really liked how his keeper coordinated her wardrobe to owl colors.
How to Make a Crab Cake by January Gill O’Neil
Check out my neighbor’s fantastic Poem Video! This is such a great idea.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
When I stop being a front line sort of librarian, I will miss the serendipity of the returns and donations. Today I was handed Rapt by Winifred Gallagher. I haven’t gotten any farther than the epigraph, title above from William James. (Summer reading has begun here, the time when I visit every elementary school in town with my dog and pony show.) I’m so happy it landed on my desk. I choose my life, no matter how much bad news arrives in the form of closing libraries and oil spills and a million other very serious mistakes.
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