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I'm living vicariously in Namibia these days - as I edit Mike Malone's latest book, a novel entitled "The Sable." There's more to the story than its setting and the animals he describes: he's looking at attitudes about race--and making it personal. I'm loving this one.

This is classic Welty. Wish I could've known her. Thanks to Barb D**e for sending this to me.

Eudora Welty to The New Yorker— The best job application ever In March of 1933, Eudora Welty, then 23 and looking for writing work, sent this charming letter to the offices of The New Yorker.

The mini-park in Eastmoreland - which runs up the middle of Reed College Place. Incidentally, Eastmoreland was one of the first planned neighborhoods on the West coast, planned and platted around 1909-1910. The east-west streets were planted with elm trees, the north-south streets with big-leaf maples, and the mini-park with two rows of linden trees.

My down-the-street neighbor took this photo today - thanks, Kristi!

Read the article...and consider this:
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury

Thanks to Ray Boomhower for posting.

Read, Kids, Read  It’s not a chore. It’s a path to fulfillment that fewer are traveling.