Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

Reading other people's blogs always gives me ideas for blogs when I can't think of anything creative to write about. Reading What's New Pussycat , I liked this idea: "Five Minutes " Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.  --Author: Patti Digh So, here goes: growing things in my garden, watching them grow, digging my toes and bare feet into the soil making pickles reading stories with Big and Little Fish, M & S, Monster Niece S and Nephew A my older brother A3 getting engaged my old, dear friend (and former roommate) College Kim getting engaged being at my godchild Viv's Baptism, celebrating with my best friends my godchild Viv's 1st bday (I couldn't be there but just knowing she is 1 and walking and happy and healthy is enough! HP7 hiking more (not enough, but more than last year) knowing that I LIVE and WORK ...

"America's Got Talent," has nothing on our Farm. People here are so amazingly gifted in so many ways, but I think I become immune to that until I sit down and watch an Open Mic Night like tonights. It was amazing and great and fun and funny and...satisfying. Sometimes, once I am home at the end of the day, it is so hard for me to want to go back into the community for all-Farm events, but I am so glad that I did tonight! Everything about the night was right. The Open Mic Night took place in the old living room. Twenty or thirty some people crammed in, grabbing empty chairs or floor space, and a makeshift stage was set up in front of the fireplace. The charm of events like these is buried in everything, even the simplest things like how we all cram in together, all of us Farmers: friends, coworkers, staff and guests snuggled in together, sitting elbow to elbow. Just being. I sometimes stop and look around and really appreciate how we are like a big family (the true gift an...

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