Empower Yourself to Achieve

Time-to-time I am getting motivational emails. I like the small in size and full of wisdom quotations. "Make every experience a learning experience," said Ralph Marston.
Endless curiosity just as important as meaningful curiosity. That it, be curious about the things that matter most to you! Research, read, and reasoning the information. Expect to find valuable, useful body of knowledge everywhere you go, from each person you meet, and you will. Reading both fiction and non-fiction, plus documentary stories from people who owe the listeners, empower. After all, we are very fortunate to have these opportunities. Dream big and fill in the details. Don't stop, keep going!

"Gloves: History and Present:" Book Review

We are glad to announce that a new book entitled "Gloves: History and Present" by Ida Tomshinsky is in production status. Ida Tomshinsky is fascinated by gloves. She offers a new look on great antiquity of hand wear. This book will take you on a journey to learn through information and visual literacy about gloves and mittens, and their history and present.

If you are also interested in history of foot wear, check out the book entitled "Socks: History and Present" written by a talented author and a long-time librarian, Ida Tomshinsky.

Just visit the http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.barnesandnobls.com/ or http://www.xlibris.com/ online bookstores!

Whirlwind of Information

Amid the whirlwind of information, economic shocks, and the constant pressures on our time and our minds, it's easy to ignore the call of our inner calls. Readership of literature of any kind is skyrocketing in numbers. Reading and learning both are the antidote to all distraction and busyness.

"To Converse with the Greats" by Vera Pavlova

To converse with the greats
by trying their blindfolds on;
to correspond with books
by rewriting them;
to edit holy edicts,
and at the midnight hour
to talk with the clock by tapping a wall
in the solitary confinement of the universe.

Trick -and-Treats!

When you need help to find something at the Virtual Library among the digital databases and variety of electronic resources and services, simply ask the closest library staff. He or she will gladly walk you right to the digital item, the resource you looking for. No guessing; no trouble. Just friendly helpful service you've come to expect.
Satisfy your monster sweet tooth for sweet service of excellence!
The trick is to get enough treats!
Halloween expressions, but real information literacy with a hunch of visual observation without any horror will help to kick off the Fall season!

The Mysterious Human Heart

"The produce in New York is really just produce, oranges
and cabbage, celery and beets, pomegranates
with their hundred seeds, carrots and honey,
walnuts and thirteen varieties of apples.
On Monday morning I will walk down
to the market with my heart inside me, mysterious,
something I will never get to hold
in my hands, something I will never understand.
Not like the apricots and potatoes, the albino
asparagus wrapped in damp paper towels, their tips
like the spark of a match, the bunches of daisies, almost more
a weed than a flower, the clementine,
the sausage links and chicken hung
in the window, facing the street where my heart is president
of the Association for Random Desire, a series
of complex yeas and nays,
where I pick up the plantation, the ginger root, the sprig
of cilantro that makes me human, makes me
a citizen with the right to vote, to bear arms, the right
to assemble and fall in love."

Matthew Dickman, American Poetry Review, Nov./Dec. 2008

View on a City

"Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white leaps...the city seen for the first time, in the first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The Merry Month of September

There are twelve months throughout the year
From January to December -
And the primmest month of all the twelve
Is the merry month of September.

"Where, oh, where has the sunshine gone?" - ask the children when the summer is rainy and chilly, but when it comes to the last days of August, the weather usually changes. The rain stops.. Sometimes it rains at night, but keeps the sky clear all day...The sun shines like anything. The flowers show their brightest colors. Everything is rich and alive.

Orchards now are apple scented,
Mists across the meadow lie,
Sunlight's gleaming soft and golden,
Hazy blue the kindly sky.
Spiders' webs are diamond hung,
Swallows twitter in the heat;
Chestnut leaves begin to yellow,
Robin's tiny song is sweet.
Asters and chrysanthemums
Make the cottage gardens gay.
Loveliness is everywhere
On this warm September Day!