The Sunday Salon: A Holiday in Smithville

 

Welcome! I am delighted that you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. 

What is the Sunday Salon? 

The Sunday Salon is a place to link up and share what we have been doing during the week. It's also a great opportunity to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Lots of good news this week:

My dad's wife, Rosa, had surgery on her hip, and she is now in a rehab facility. My dad is able to stay with her there.

My allergies settled down.

My car has settled down and has given me no further trouble.

My husband and I were able to spend several days up in Smithville in Central Texas with my sister and her husband, Gary, on Gary's grandmother's farm. We went antiquing at the semi-annual antique show in Round Top and we spent lots of time catching up.

What I Read Last Week:

The Illustrated Emily Dickinson: 25 Essential Poems

Wildflower Emily: A Story About Young Emily Dickinson

What I'm Reading Now:

The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Classic)

Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations by Frederick Buechner (Spirituality)

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

Hope is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

Nine Newish Books I Hope to Read This Spring

The Sunday Salon: Home!

I began to list 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic. Now I've established a regular routine of writing down my 3 Good Things. Here are 3 Good Things from last week:

Good Thing #1:

Central Texas is beautiful.

It's been dry, so

the bluebonnets were not 

as abundant as in years past.

Good Thing #2:

I saw this fascinating hummingbird moth

near the pond on my brother-in-law's grandmother's farm.

Good Thing #3:

We saw this lovely Orange Sulphur

at the antique show. 

Weekend linkup spots are listed below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

I hope you will join the linkup for Sunday Salon below.

Hope is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

     

Today's Featured Book: 

Hope is the Thing with Feathers:

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Genre: Poetry

Written: 1858 to 1865

First Published: 1890

Page Count: 328 pages

Summary: 

From the Women's Voices series, a collection of classic poetry specifically curated to encourage, challenge, and motivate women.

One of American's most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion, and society. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is a collection of her vast archive of poetry to inspire the writers, creatives, and feminists of today.

 

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY is hosted by Rose City Reader. What book are you happy about reading this week? Please share the opening sentence (or so) on BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY! Add the link to your blog or social media post and visit other blogs to see what others are reading.

Happy Friday and welcome to the FIRST LINE FRIDAY, hosted by Reading is My Superpower! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line.

This is my letter to the world,

    That never wrote to me, ---

The simple news that Nature told,

    With tender majesty.

Her message is committed

    To hands I cannot see;

For love of her, sweet countrymen,

    Judge tenderly of me.

THE FRIDAY 56 is hosted by Anne of Head Full of Books. To play, open a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on your e-reader). Find a sentence or two and post them, along with the book title and author. Then link up on Head Full of Books and visit others in the linky. 

Apparently with no surprise

To any happy flower,

The frost beheads it at its play

In accidental power.

The blond assassin passes on,

The sun proceeds unmoved

To measure off another day

For an approving God.

I'm taking a class on Emily Dickinson that begins in Women's History Month (March) and runs through Poetry Month (April). 

I am extending my enjoyment of the class by reading some books about her life and poetry myself, and by sitting in front of her statue in my home library as I recite her poems. lol

The purpose of THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, and befriend other bloggers. THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.    

What’s your favorite bookish scent, and why does it appeal to you? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee-Addicted Writer)

I like all bookish scents---newly printed books, old bookstores, pens, paper. I do not know why these appeal to me. Perhaps it's buried in my DNA.

 

Nine Newish Books I Hope to Read This Spring

Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences by Neal Allen and Anne Lamott

The Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang

Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry by Ada Limón

The Shippers by Katherine Center

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout

Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne

The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu

This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through US History by Beverly Gage

Here We Go: Lessons for Living Fearlessly from Two Traveling Nanas by Eleanor Hanby and Sandra Hazelip

Are any of these on your list?

What book are you most eager to read this spring?

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.       

The Sunday Salon: Home!

Welcome! We are very glad that you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. 

What is the Sunday Salon? 

The Sunday Salon is a place to link up and share what we have been doing during the week. It's also a great opportunity to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

My return home from East Texas was trying. My car abruptly stopped running on the interstate highway, and I had to be towed to a repair shop. The kind tow truck driver took me to Walmart (the temps had dropped to freezing and I had no coat) and waited for me during my shopping to be sure I was okay. I met three lovely people while I waited for my car to be repaired in Whataburger and all three offered to help me any way they could. The repair shop had my car back on the road in time for me to return home that day. When I got home, I learned that my dad's 96-year-old wife had fallen and was in the hospital with a broken hip. She had surgery and she was standing on her feet the same afternoon. Rosa is going to an in-patient rehab next where my dad will be allowed to stay with her. I brought home allergies or a cold of some sort, so I'm trying to heal up from that, too.

What I Read Last Week:

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Grimm's Fairy Tales

What I'm Reading Now:

The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Classic)

Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations by Frederick Buechner (Spirituality)

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

Happy St. Patrick's Day: Green Book Covers

The Sunday Salon: Spring Break with Grandkids, Books, and Birds

I began to list 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic. Now I've established a regular routine of writing down my 3 Good Things. Here are 3 Good Things from last week:

Good Thing #1:

We had an Art Day,

and drew and painted.

This is Annie's cardinal.

Good Thing #2:

The library had a Lego-a-Thon,

and the kids made things out of Legos.

Good Thing #3:

We visited the zoo, 

went to a video game tournament at the library,

took a nature walk,

had a bonfire with S'mores,

read two books together,

played board games,

played soccer and football,

looked at the stars through a telescope borrowed from the library,

saw a new movie called Hoppers,

and hung out together for nine days.

Weekend linkup spots are listed below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

I hope you will join the linkup for Sunday Salon below.