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Mer Guevara oceanografico — Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk is a wonderful early introduction to the library. Sam lives behind the wall in the children’s reference books. He sleeps during the day when the library is busy with folks studying, using the computers, and checking out books, but at night the library belongs to Sam. Sam makes the most of his nights, reading book after book on every subject. One night he decides to write his own book. He takes the advice of “write what you know” that he found in a how-to book on writing, and writes his life story on little pieces of scrap paper he takes from the librarian’s desk. When he shelves it in the biography section (correctly, I might add), a child finds it and shows it to the librarian. Sam soon becomes a celebrity when his books are snatched off the shelves by eager children. But no one knows who Sam is. Librarians are always full of bright ideas, so they decide to have a Meet the Author Day. But Sam is a shy mouse and wants to remain anonymous. Mice are full of bright ideas, too, and Sam comes up with an ingenious way to stay hidden and still make sure the program is successful.

Luisa Hernandez visual_esing — I bought this book because I was vaguely familiar with Lily Dale, NY and I wanted to know more. Bought it at the Chautauqua Institution Bookstore (a great little bookstore!) on the shores of Chautauqua Lake, just south of Cassadaga Lake where the quaint victorian village of Lily Dale was founded in 1879. Then perhaps one of the largest and now oldest Spiritualist communities in America, it has a place in American church history. This area of Western New York, where Spiritualism started, was known in the 1880's as the "burned over district" because of the mighty works of the Holy Spirit and the "fires" of the Christian revivals that swept through repeatedly. The book is not a page-turner, but interesting enough. The author interviewed many residents and visitors during her summer stay at Lily Dale. She sought out mediums, healers, readers and those who sought those messages and experiences. She sought to discover those gift in herself, but the story moves slowly (not unlike waiting for spiritual gifts of any sort?) Three quotes: (1) Toward the end of the book, the author talks about how her experience at "the Dale" had begun to "redefine me to myself." (2) As she prepares to leave Lily Dale, she asks a spiritualist "So, what do I do with all this?" The answer? "You live with it. You use it in your life." and (3) "It's as though we live in a big egg . . . every day the shell gets thicker. [The:] spirits [Spirit?:] tap, tap tap away until they break a tiny pinhole in the shell. A strange light comes through. And some of us start to kick our way out." Maybe this was the right time to read this book! For the past two years, I have been a "pilgrim", participating in the Academy for Spiritual Formation. Gathering with others for a week every three months, adopting a Benedictine schedule of sorts . . . reading, lectures, worship several times a day and Holy Communion daily, silence and reflection. We have been shaped and molded. Now as we come to the end of our time together, I wonder what i do with what I've learned, I think about how I've changed, I contemplate life with out the structure and will I continue the disciplines begun. I find myself changed, but not in ways that are very observable. . . I have perhaps been redefined to myself, I'll have to keep living with it, and keep kicking.