Pat - Certainly you may do whatever you wish with my words. I'm not a
closet Lucy-fan at all!! Thanks for your kind words. Bev
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
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.
>
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