Corner View: Experience

This is a book by a beloved friend of mine and fellow blogger, Caryjo.  You can get it from Amazon.  I have it on my Kindle Fire.  This is a fictional story based on true parts of her life. I've had it for quite awhile, but just started reading it.  It's a wonderful, Christian-based story about a young teenage-girl and the grandmother-type woman who reaches out to her.  The woman's name is Cary.

Joanne (or Caryjo as bloggers know her) uses her experiences to reach out and witness to others.

 A friend and blogger(who no longer has a blog but does Facebook), Nance introduced me to the poems of Ted Kooser.  He's a poet laureate of the United States and lives in Garland, Nebraska. He writes about everyday experiences in such a way that I can instantly relate.  Truly a wonderfully talented poet. This is my third and latest book of his.
The following are three poems from the book pictured.  The last poem has the same title as the book. I think most of us can relate to the experiences written about in the poems.

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Corner View: Alone Time

My children are grown, so I don't have the noise level and busy-ness of younger mothers.   However, I have a husband who likes having the TV on all the time.  Since I like to sit in the living room also, he uses the headphones that are laying on the little table.  He has the couch and I have the recliner.  I read books while he  watches TV, and when he's not around and I am not overwhelmed with stuff to do, I watch movies.  I bought the two shown below after seeing them with my grandkids.  I love them and they still make me laugh.  I also get movies from Netflix---mostly ones I like and he doesn't because he's not that big of a movie fan.

I do also read when alone---usually longer than if the TV screen is dancing around in my peripheral vision. 

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Corner View: One book

 My favorite book of all time is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.  I first read it when I was in 9th grade.  I have even taught it as the pics of notes denotes.  It's a hard book for some kids now-a-days to understand, but most of whom I taught ended up liking it, once they got the 'hang' of it.

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Corner View: A Good Read

The topic this week is "A Good Read."

I came home the last two days to packages waiting for me.

I had ordered three books in hard copy--two were only offered that way.

and the third I thought I might want to share with colleagues,

so I didn't go the Kindle route.

Two of them I read about in our newspaper.

It has a weekly column on the latest "good reads."

Last week Facing the Sunshine and Avoiding the Shadows

by Becky Johnen

was listed in the "Good Reads" ( not really its title) column.

Since education is undergoing immense change

and that change is causing all kinds of stress,

I thought this book might help.

The following book was recommended in a weekly column

by a naturalist.

{Several blogs have had an influence on me 

in motivating me to get more in touch with nature.

One of those is Susie's blog "Just a Moment"

I have been following it for several years now.}

Anyhow, Gone for the Day sounded like something I would enjoy

and something that might motivate me to have even more contact with nature.

The author Ned Smith is long gone, but his field notes and sketches,

as well as his newspaper columns, remain.

This was a book published by a nature organization back in the 70's.

It is still popular today.

However, the book actually being critiqued and recommended

was the book another naturalist put together

of hundreds of more notes, sketches, and articles by Ned Smith.

I decided to order the first one and then possibly get the second.

This is the catalog from which I order books for my grandkids.

The selection and details of each book are awesome.

The books have become part of a special collection

my daughter keeps for her two children.

The Amazing Machines is a set I got my grandson Aaron and it has been a huge hit.

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