Madhu and I had the great pleasure to hear Patricia Polacco speak at Lift Btidge. She told many of her stories, all based on her own experience. She has written and illustrated 77 children's books. One of the fascinating aspects of her life is the misery she experience as a child because she could not read, until a member of the last standing real heros of the world , a teacher, Mr. Felkar, recognized her vision, or lack of, how she sees letters. She could always draw. The above picture is from her book THE KEEPING QUILT, and she is the center. She was asked many questions, such as where do you live (small farm in Michigan, has goats), how do you fix your hair, how many books have you written, are they true (the stories are all true, but some of the facts are changed). She told many of her stories which are often touching, there were not many dry eyes in the room, except among the children.
This job was long time coming. I hired B.L. and his wife to work in the yard. Yesterday they cleaned out around the Norway Spruce (I identified those trees as such, and will call them that until I learn otherwise). I am happy about the openness there and now just need to keep it that way. I plan to mount the lovely tuned up John Deere this afternoon.
Madhu and I had the great pleasure to hear Patricia Polacco speak at Lift Btidge. She told many of her stories, all based on her own experience. She has written and illustrated 77 children's books. One of the fascinating aspects of her life is the misery she experience as a child because she could not read, until a member of the last standing real heros of the world , a teacher, Mr. Felkar, recognized her vision, or lack of, how she sees letters. She could always draw. The above picture is from her book THE KEEPING QUILT, and she is the center. She was asked many questions, such as where do you live (small farm in Michigan, has goats), how do you fix your hair, how many books have you written, are they true (the stories are all true, but some of the facts are changed). She told many of her stories which are often touching, there were not many dry eyes in the room, except among the children.
This job was long time coming. I hired B.L. and his wife to work in the yard. Yesterday they cleaned out around the Norway Spruce (I identified those trees as such, and will call them that until I learn otherwise). I am happy about the openness there and now just need to keep it that way. I plan to mount the lovely tuned up John Deere this afternoon.
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Aha! I wondered which over-acheiving neighbor was mowing in April.
I love Patricia Pollacco. How lucky you were to see and hear her.
I would like to add some comments to Mom's account of the Pollaco visit. She was 14 before she could read well. In the lecture we went to, she really talked to the kids (there was a large crowd) and she did not talk down to them. Also, when she asked for questions, almost all the questions were from the kids! They still had more questions when the meeting finally broke up. She was truly an amazing person. She even brought tears to our eyes when she talked about her teacher who finally took her under his wings and made her feel self-confident about her abilities. We bought a bunch of her books, of course and we had planned on getting her autograph, but the line was just too long.
Those trees look great.
For Uncle Chan and Aunt Sara:
I wore the cufflinks with the British World War II bullseye with my tuxedo to our initiation this weekend, and got a lot of compliments!
I am glad you are enjoying them.
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