Tangled Threads
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
It's when I'm taking a walk or cooking dinner or folding the laundry that I actually get some time to think, and often I'm thinking about what I'm grateful for. Yesterday, again, I was pondering all the really fine souls I've met in this blogging world, the tangle of friendships (to steal a book title from my past) that have erupted here for me. The funny emails about tomatoes from Liviana (inbedwithbooks), for example. The snatches of inside-book-launch-week from Melissa Walker (the Violet series). The sudden appearance of Lorie Ann Grover (readergirlz) and Charlotte, the ongoing companionship of Little Willow, the friendship with Grete, the greetings of Maude, the ballroom dance updates from Keris over at Trashionista, the gift from Sabrina, the unexpected notes from readers.
Goodness flows in, a balm.
Yesterday, Ambeen, a GoodReads friend, posted a guest blog over at her very fine blog house, and I'm grateful for that. The entirely dear Miss Em, meanwhile, sent along a story she thought I might be interested in. I was indeed. In fact, the quote of my day is lifted straight from that piece; Mitchard speaks for a lot of us here.
"I like teenagers because of their enormous passion and their peeled-back emotional quality, and I think you only feel that way during that window in your life. But it’s also the period at which people start to form the habit of being a reader for life.”
Jacquelyn Mitchard, quoted in Market Partners International Publishing Trends, August 2008
http://www.theravenousreaderreviews.blogspot.com/
http://www.emsbookshelf.blogspot.com/
5 comments:
I'm often mistaken for a teenager (or even a pre-teen!) and though I know that assumption is initially based on my appearance (face, voice, and height, or lack thereof), I know it's furthered by my energy and enthusiasm. Because I'm typically in a good mood, because I'm talkative and bouncy and energetic, that MUST mean I'm a kid, because "adults don't act like that" - or so I've been told, but I defy that statement! Who says you can't be twenty, thirty, forty and be just as bubbly as a teen? Why hide your enthusiasm or disappointment because it wouldn't be "adult?" There's certainly a difference between being immature, or rude, or unprofessional, and being genuine. Of course there's a time and place for everything. Of course there are times and places where one should be more restrained or feels the need to be guarded. However, there are plenty of opportunities to just be YOU, and those should be not only embraced, but sought after! I'd rather be genuine and honest all of the time than for one moment be untrue to myself.
someday someday someday, I hope to meet you, Little Willow, in person.
I feel your pulsing energy in everything you write and do.
And I think it's a good thing, indeed.
b
Little Willow does sound like she'd be tons of fun to hang out with! I was at a Breaking Dawn midnight party last week and it was fun to be surrounded by enthusiastic teens AND adults.
Glad you liked the article. I'm back in town again and have a fun vacation story to share with you...I'll send an email soon. :)
Thanks for the link!
And thank you for the guest blog. ;)
Thank you, Beth.
Thank you, Em.
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