I Need a Grant Writer!!

If you or someone you know qualifies as a grant writer, please get in touch with me. I need someone to write up some proposals for me as I would like to think I qualify for something. Do I have any qualms about publicly announcing this need? None, whatsoever!

There is no happiness in having and getting,
but only in giving.
Half the world is on the wrong scent
in the pursuit of happiness.
F.W. Gunsaulus


There is a time to be born,
and a time to die, says Solomon,
and it is the memento of a truly wise man;
but there is an interval between
these two times of infinite importance.
-Richmond
Leaves of Gold

The New Urban Cowboy

http://newurbancowboy.com/goldenapples/for-languages/nuc-english-video.htm
The New Urban Cowboy: Towards a New Pedestrianism
This post has nothing to do with books or horses or the bookstore. It has to do with a documentary I saw last October at The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. It has stuck with me for so long and I swear, I probably think about it once a day. Very worth watching if you get the chance. The basic idea is so great, but the documentary is even more great. Truly Amazing, actually.
Michael E. Arth's idea is that eventually, in this country, we are going to have to figure out how to be a less car-centered society, as a whole, not just a few pockets of folks. An example of one of his main ideas is to turn neighborhoods around, literally. Instead of front yards facing roads and parked cars, the would face into the alleys and towards other people. Kids could walk up and down the alleys safely and grocery stores would be within walking distance. In fact, everything is within walking distance. The alleys basically become the roads, but for people. It may sound simplistic, but it is an amazing documentary.
Have had three customers in three days.Getting a lot of reading done! Winter is so cool.
Stay Warm!

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful,
ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
-Gaston Bachelard



Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested:
that is, some books are to be read only in parts,
others to be read, but not curiously, and some few
to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
~ Francis Bacon



You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
~ Ray Bradbury ~

Check Out My New Blog: HorsesInTheCity.blogspot.com

My new blog is all about my little life as a carriage
Do check it out, if you would be so kind!
Most Sincerely,
Your Ever-Lovin Blogger,
Miss Karin

I will Blog Again!!!

I have been so delinquent in my blogging! I have a new blog as well as this one (HorsesInTheCity.blogspot.com) and I haven't posted on either one lately as I have had a level of business occurring the likes of which are almost extra-terrestrial. Of course, hardly anyone ever posts a comment on my blog (Thank you, Mark), so I haven't a clue as to whether or not anyone is reading this with any interest or not. I like to think people are, and with a lot of interest. Anyway, I havee no time now as I have a ton of new shelves and need to deal with them (gladly!) I had a man call me a couple of days ago (Thank you so much, by the way, whoever you were!) and rather covertly alert me to the fact that if I did, in fact, want some shelves for my bookstore, which I had said as much on Craigslist, that there were some at such and such intersection. He was right and further due to Craiglist, I aquired yet another set of shelves so I am having a lot of work going on installing them!! Come and check them out!!
Sincerely Yours,
Whoever you are,
Karin