Words and Images

This morning I woke up and walked through the rain to figure how I'll be helping at a book festival, the Show Me a Story part. I ended up volunteering to help organize when I was expecting to just be there, which is exciting and slightly terrifying all at once.

Apparently when I'm talking about storytelling, I sound quite knowledgeable and competent, I need to remember this for interviews. Also it got me thinking about the Wall Street Journal article and the role books and reading play in growing up and understanding the world. I'm working on finding my way to connect my frustration at the article's view to my own desire to create safe and open spaces for young people to flourish and hopefully learn to love reading.

After that I came home and spent most of the day not feeling awake until I ventured out again to peer at the Green Festival in town, Ann Arbor has many hippies. Then I just read Cleopatra for almost an hour, I love this book, it reminds me why I love the Classics. Everything connects together, if you know about Alexander then you understand more about Cleopatra while if know you about Rome, you can see why certain things happened. I think I might need to go and wander around the Kelsey Museum again so I can be close to some ancient Greek and Latin.

On my way home I decided to take pictures, mainly art shots as rain on leaves is pretty. Those pictures aren't uploaded, but I have some art shots that I haven't already posted so I will share them. Fair warning as always that there are lots of big pictures under the cut.


This is the interior of the Michigan theater and I love how this shot turned out. It doesn't do the building justice but its close.

( Look sideways at the world. )