The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, hid copies of Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020 around London along with the Book Faeries on Friday, May 8th. The Book Fairies are a global organization that hides books all around the world for the joy of discovering them. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the photo book was born of a project devoted to mental health. We’ve been following the evolution of this project since its beginning. Residents of the UK were invited to submit photos of their experiences with the coronavirus pandemic. The response was fantastic and overwhelming. An excerpt from an Observer.com article is below. “Duchess Kate, an avid photographer herself, first launched the photo project last year. She worked with the National Portrait Gallery (she’s the royal patron) and asked people from all over the U.K. to submit a portrait depicting their lives amid the coronavirus pandemic. The response was huge,…
The month of May celebrates Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ heritage. We would really like to feature AAPI artists, writers, and lifestyle bloggers. Please comment below if you have recommendations for people we can contact. We’d like to post about 3-4 individuals. . Photo by vivek kumar on Unsplash “May marks Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, a time to honor and celebrate the many contributions Asian and Pacific Islander Americans have made to the history, society, and culture of the United States (U.S.). According to the Census Bureau, Asian and Pacific Islanders makeup about 5% of the American population and are the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S.” SOURCE Girl Scouts River Valleys Photo by vivek kumar on Unsplash Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash
Old Town Lilburn is a historic area of Lilburn, Georgia, enjoying a renaissance. The city park has been undergoing renovations with a newly designed playground, expanded green space, and a new splash feature is being built. Alongside, Old Town you’ll find the Camp Creek Greenway, a 4.2 mile multi-use trail that starts in Lilburn City Park and expands through neighborhoods and to more parks. Residential homes are going up, there’s a distillery, main street dining, a local music store that hosts community events, and a vibrant scene for family-friendly entertainment. With all of this growth, a newcomer arrived in town in November 2020 and has been steadily putting down roots as an essential part of Old Town Lilburn. Citizen Exchange is an artist collective and it has taken off in a big way as a popular place for locals to buy gifts, attend classes, and showcase their work. Citizen Exchange…
Fanny Price quote from Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park on the calmness of nature.
Many people may not know Edgar Allan Poe lived in a variety of places in New York City. An historic one is the Poe Cottage in the Bronx.
Edgar Allan Poe’s story about the lure of an Evening Star against a cold moon.
Illustration and caffeine? What’s not to like? Dropped into a favorite coffee house for the first time in a year last week and saw these fun and whimsical cups drawn on by customers. You can see them at Chocolate in Decatur, Georgia, if you’re in the area. Sorry that I have no way of giving credit to the artists since none was listed.
Book obsessions are moods we fall into all the time. When you’re looking for your next book, it’s fun to hunt it down. We LOVE shopping in stores but also reading the book newsletters we receive. Bookshop.org supports a collection of independent book stores, and it’s fun to read their recommendations. In fact, we happen to find our next reads on their lists a lot of the time. We’d encourage you to check out their site while we link to 4 books to check out below. One just came out in February 2021 and the other 3 are from 2020 and 2019. Different genres with different moods. Biographical and Historical The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation By Anna Malaika TubbsPublished February 2021 Description Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin’s son James, about Alberta King’s son Martin…
“The Night Mail” poem written by WH Auden paints a vivid picture of what it was like to transport and receive mail once upon a time. The excitement of it reaching its destination and people walking to their mailboxes or their local shops to pick up letters. The Night Mailby WH Auden This is the night mail crossing the Border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:The gradient’s against her, but she’s on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulderShovelling white steam over her shoulder, Snorting noisily as she passesSilent miles of wind-bent grasses. Birds turn their heads as she approaches,Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches. Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course;They slumber on with paws across. In the farm she passes no one wakes,But a jug in a bedroom…