This time of year, I always reflect on what I do and do not want to do in the coming year, and then I name my goals and resolutions for the New Year. Perhaps more than any other year before this one, I plan to Reach for the Stars in 2023. You see, in 2022,…
Month: December 2022
The Youth’s Companion – A Magazine from 1879
From Gutenberg Press. Org: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22242/pg22242-images.html Following are excerpts of some of the stories, features, and advertisements in the vintage magazine from 1879. ] THE HOSTLER’S STORY. By J. T. Trowbridge. The story begins: [Note: In 1879, few were concerned about cruelty to animals.] “What amused us most at the Lake House last summer was the…
The Cocoon Harvest – by William Hamilton Gibson
The Cocoon Harvest December 29 [From Gibson’s Sharp Eyes: A Ramblers Calendar of Fifty-Two Weeks Among Insects, Birds and Flowers – Originally Published in 1898 and illustrated by William Hamilton Gibson Author and Illustrator.] NOW is the time to lay up your store of cocoons, looking to those beautiful moths of next: June; and there…
Winter and Footprints in the Snow – by William Hamilton Gibson
IT seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. . . . He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich…
Sharp Eyes – A Rambler’s Calendar: 52 Weeks Among Insects, Birds, and Flowers – William Hamilton Gibson – 1898
Don’t Just Look — See! April 7 – Quickening Seeds and Seedlings
Jacki Kellum Wishes Everyone A Merry Christmas – from Her Studio, The Donkey’s Song, and Mrs. Cow
“She wears socks that jing-a-ling To wear on Christmas Day.” Mrs. Cow Decorating Her Christmas tree. – Jacki Kellum illustration. I’ll let you in on a little secret: I am Mrs. Cow. No doubt about it, 2022 has been one of the grandest joy rides of my life. Here’s a bit of inspiration for late…
Jacki Kellum – Author of ‘The Donkey’s Song’ Talks Looking for Magic in Life – Article in the Clarion Ledger – December 2022
Hoops, Jana. “Author of ‘The Donkey’s Song’ Talks Looking for Magic in Life.” The Clarion-Ledger, 4 Dec. 2022, pp. 3B, 6B. “‘The greatest thrill of my entire year was when I joined all the other kids in town, and we donned bed sheets and bath towels to become the angels and shepherds who surrounded Baby…