Bev, This is so awesome. True friendships hard to find. People you can trust and grow with. I realize as I read your words that I feel this way about a few authors and also about two listserv groups I have been with for years. With or without your name, as you would like, I would certainly like to share it with my other listserv friends. Let me know. I know they would love to hear you speak of their friend in such a loving way. Pat K
"to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." e.e. cummings On Sep 1, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Beverlee Paul wrote: > Well, I certainly cannot speak of either experience because I never > leave Nebraska, but . . . I cannot miss the opportunity to speak of my > friend, Lucy Calkins. Lucy and I first met, so to speak, when I read > Lessons from a Child many years ago and our friendship deepened with > Living Between the Lines. Our friendship has continued through the > years through her other works and I've recently met her on DVD. > > When I open a book of Lucy's, I'm transported to another time and > place. She and I pull together our leather chairs and spread an old > well-worn down comforter over us both. We draw up our feet so we can > sit Kriss-Kross Applesauce until one of us becomes so inspired that we > throw off the comforter to lean forward to speak our well-chosen words > with conviction. We laugh a lot; we cry a little. We affirm, we > argue, we articulate the thoughts we never even knew we had. We pull > out our family photos. We tell our stories late into the night. We > drink hot chocolate in huge, cracked mugs and turn up James Taylor as > loud as we can. Sometimes I nap a minute--and when I awake, we take > up right where we left off. We share our children, almost a thousand > of mine now, and tens of thousands of hers. We speak of our beliefs > eloquently and shout our outrage at the attempts to dumb down our > professional roles. But nothing can spoil the purity of her vision > and we once again arrive at shared optimism and excitement for the > morrow. > > So, my friend Lucy, whom I will never meet, has changed my life in > ways few could only hope. She's been my trusted friend and confidant > for years. To quote a cheesy movie, Lucy "had me from hello" when she > first taught me the lessons from a child. > > How could you miss meeting Lucy? Go. > > Bev > > > Lucy Calkins is a dynamic speaker and unbelievably talented author > who can > appeal to ANYONE's mind. She is funny, smart, experienced, and she > uses all of her > life experiences and puts them simply into teaching form. The best of > the > best. If you get a chance to hear her, she could very well change > your teaching > life. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Test your celebrity IQ. Play Red Carpet Reveal and earn great prizes! > http://club.live.com/red_carpet_reveal.aspx? > icid=redcarpet_hotmailtextlink2 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ > mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
