Daily Archives: February 28, 2011

What I Read in February 2011

A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
The Moor by Laurie R. King (reread)
Od Magic by Patricia McKillip
In the Forests of Serre by Patricia McKillip
The Healing Wisdom of Birds by Lesley Morrison
A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King (reread)
Bird Signs by G.G. Carbone

This list is short, and looks wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I kept lousy records this month; I know I read more than this. Okay, fine, it’s a short month, but still. And okay, sure, my month also consisted mostly of work, but come on.

I read two collections of articles from the Suzuki Association of the Americas’ journal, and I’ve been reading Elizabeth Bear’s Grail, the final book in the very excellent Jacob’s Ladder trilogy, and trying to make it last while wanting to eat it all at once. I’m working on Helping Parents Practice by Edmund Sprunger, too. Maybe it’s just that I’m spread out over lots of things. Or maybe it’s the new spinning wheel taking up time I’d normally use to read.

Welcome, Rowan!

It’s a miserable day out there today. The weather is schizophrenic, part fluffy snow, part ice pellets, part freezing rain, and part plain old rain.

But there is something wonderful that makes up for the misery outside my window.

Hail and welcome to Rowan Mark James St-Martin, newly born son of our dear and long-time friends Kristie and Rob, born only minutes into this day! May your life be full and blessed; may you know joy, weep only happy tears, and taste the entirety of what life offers you with enthusiasm, wisdom, and grace.

Newborn babies are wonderful things. Ours or not, we have the opportunity to celebrate the renewal of life, and the confirmation that new beginnings come again and again to lift us up and inspire us when things seem mundane. We are all blessed by sharing in the joy surrounding a birth.