DESERT BIRD OF PARADISE BLOOMING AT BRIAR COTTAGE SPRING 2024

It seems I have taken an unannounced and unplanned break from posting on my blog.  I slowed down for the holidays and then continued to coast along happily reading blogs I follow.  Then suddenly it is past spring and past the total eclipse that raced across Texas.  Hurricane season before I know it.

TOTAL  ECLIPSE:  It was too cloudy here to see it but I am more of a moon watcher.  Give me a full moon rising to watch  and I am enchanted.  No glasses required.

TAXES:  I volunteered again for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) through United Way of the Coastal Bend one morning a week during tax season.  Most of the returns are uncomplicated with income limitations, but there is always some new  change in a tax law or a circumstance I have not seen before to challenge me.

ONE BOOK LEADS TO ANOTHER BOOK:   While searching for a fiction book to download, I found The Library of Burned Books set in WWII involving three women whose stories intertwine. That lead to a non-fiction book, When Books Went to War: the Stories That Helped Us Win WWII.   I think I will read the non-fiction first ; it will require a trip to the library.

BANNED BOOKS:  I support and join librarians  and those who are against banning books.  May we remember what happened when books were burned in Germany under Hitler.

I will close with a quote from Mary Oliver’s poem,  “The Summer Day”.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with this wild and precious life?”