New Beginnings

So, I haven't posted anything in months and there are several reasons the biggest being we moved from one state to another over the summer and I just got caught up with all that entailed and was just too distracted to write anything. Now we are settling in to our new home, new school for the kids, and new routine I am hoping to get back on the blogging horse.  However I don't think I am going to continue with this particular blog anymore.  I still believe in spreading kindness in small ways and hope I was able to inspire a few people while I was at it, but I found it difficult to find enough to talk about on a regular basis without being too sappy, or preachy.  So, I am starting a new blog about two topics that I know I could talk about unceasingly.  The first is books.  I could talk about books forever. But I don't want to be just one more "book lover's blog" so I'm also going to focus on a relatively new love, and that is birds and bird watching. Our new house has woods behind it and I have found myself spending literally, hours watching birds on my back porch. So I hope you'll stop by my new blog I Am No Bird



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Wonder

    

      I read a lot of middle grade novels. I think it is my favorite genre. There is an innocence to them that is lost in YA and adult books, yet the stories can be quite complex. One I read recently that has stuck with me is called Wonder by R.J. Palacio. It is a book about a fifth grade boy starting school for the first time. He has been home schooled his whole life due to a severe facial deformity. It is a story about bullying, but more over it is a story about kindness. There is a section at the end of the book where a school administrator is addressing the students and parents. In his speech he ushers a challenge for how he wants his middle schoolers to live.  He says:

     "If every single person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary-the world really would be a better place.  And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God."

What a wonderful thought.

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