]]> The Library will close after school today (Tuesday, 5/15) due to a meeting.

]]> http://harwood.org/library/?feed=rss2&p=476 0 http://harwood.org/library/?p=473 http://harwood.org/library/?p=473#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 12:48:06 +0000 westbrookm http://harwood.org/library/?p=473 Natasha Trethewey Overhead, pelicans glide in threes— their shadows across the sand dark thoughts crossing the mind. Beyond the fringe of coast, shrimpers hoist their nets, weighing the harvest against the day's losses. Light waning, concentration is a lone gull circling what's thrown back. Debris weights the trawl like stones. All [...]]]> Vespertina Cognitio by Natasha Trethewey Overhead, pelicans glide in threes— their shadows across the sand dark thoughts crossing the mind. Beyond the fringe of coast, shrimpers hoist their nets, weighing the harvest against the day's losses. Light waning, concentration is a lone gull circling what's thrown back. Debris weights the trawl like stones. All day, this dredging—beneath the tug of waves—rhythm of what goes out, comes back, comes back, comes back. ]]> http://harwood.org/library/?feed=rss2&p=473 0 http://harwood.org/library/?p=470 http://harwood.org/library/?p=470#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 13:37:32 +0000 westbrookm http://harwood.org/library/?p=470 The Library will be closed after school today (5/9).

Also, in case you were wondering, Abraham Lincoln did not invent Facebook.

Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher will visit the Joslin Memorial Library in Waitsfield on May 10th at 6:30pm.  If you have yet to hear Mosher speak – about his books and writing life – you should definitely try to see him next week in Waitsfield.  He’s a charming, lively speaker with many stories [...]]]>

Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher will visit the Joslin Memorial Library in Waitsfield on May 10th at 6:30pm.  If you have yet to hear Mosher speak – about his books and writing life – you should definitely try to see him next week in Waitsfield.  He’s a charming, lively speaker with many stories to tell.  For more information, swing by the Joslin Memorial.

The Library has recently added a bunch of new books on costuming, fashion and style through the ages.  You can find these new titles in the “New Books” section by the magazine rack – or by searching the library catalog.  A few titles include: American beauty : aesthetics and [...]]]>

The Library has recently added a bunch of new books on costuming, fashion and style through the ages.  You can find these new titles in the “New Books” section by the magazine rack – or by searching the library catalog.  A few titles include: American beauty : aesthetics and innovation in fashion, The Dictionary of Fashion History, and As seen in Vogue: a century of American fashion in advertising.

Have a nice Spring Break!

It’s a weird thing, writing.

Sometimes you can look out across what you’re writing, and it’s like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer’s day. You can see every leaf on every tree, [...]]]> Neil Gaiman recently posted about his new writing project, and I loved what he had to say about writing:

It’s a weird thing, writing.

Sometimes you can look out across what you’re writing, and it’s like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer’s day. You can see every leaf on every tree, and hear the birdsong, and you know where you’ll be going on your walk.

And that’s wonderful.

Sometimes it’s like driving through fog. You can’t really see where you’re going. You have just enough of the road in front of you to know that you’re probably still on the road, and if you drive slowly and keep your headlamps lowered you’ll still get where you were going.

And that’s hard while you’re doing it, but satisfying at the end of a day like that, where you look down and you got 1500 words that didn’t exist in that order down on paper, half of what you’d get on a good day, and you drove slowly, but you drove.

And sometimes you come out of the fog into clarity, and you can see just what you’re doing and where you’re going, and you couldn’t see or know any of that five minutes before.

And that’s magic.

You can read more over at Neil’s blog.  (Have you read Neil Gaiman?  If not, search our catalog for his books!)