Spring Fever

  Do you ever have days when you want to do, well, nothing?   That's me today.   I'm sitting here in my rocker on my front porch, listening to the sounds of kids playing on the next street, birds chirping, my windchimes gently ringing, and bikers whizzing by on their Sunday morning ride. I'm looking at the brilliant green world around me: green leaves, green grass, green everywhere.   It makes me feel so happy that I don't want to do anything.   I finished Heidi last week. An absolutely refreshing read. Heidi is the Mary Poppins of her world, bringing comfort to an aged and blind grandmother, teaching the incorrigible Peter to read, befriending and healing a lonely lame girl. All with the simple gifts of the spirit found in a young child. Makes me want to go live in a hut in Switzerland on the side of a mountain. Then again perhaps I am doing just that.   And, perfect for today, I'm reading the twelfth book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective series, The Double Comfort Safari Club. I love the way our hero, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective herself, Mma. Precious Ramotswe, lives her life, enjoying the small moments and treating everyone with great respect.    I'm even contemplating skipping church today. I'm thinking that sitting here on my front porch, with a cup of coffee, might be the ideal spot to thank God for his many blessings. It just might be.   What are you up to today?  

What is the Sunday Salon?

Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them, and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....


That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. See below for how to join the Salon.