small wonders

Thank you all for the supportive and heartfelt comments and e-mails regarding the last post. Your kindness means a lot to me. I am glad to have gotten those thoughts out there, but also glad to be thinking of other things this week and to be releasing some of that pressure that was building- for the time being anyway. So now it is about knitting and good books and gardens and such-for balance and sustainability.


I am joining Ginny and the gang for the knit along this week- I am having so much fun knitting with this lovely green yarn, though it is a gift, so I wont go into details, but oh, it is so pretty and soft and such a great pattern. I'll share all once it has been gifted.


I also loved that list of books you all suggested when I asked for book recommendations and I ordered a couple second hand books just for me. I just started this one: "The School of Essential Ingredients" and am enjoying it so far. I love reading so very much, but I have been so reluctant to get involved with a book if it might turn around and wrench my guts out with some violence or horror of some sort- I just can't take anything heavy these days - I've always been a wimp when it comes to books and movies, but even more so since becoming a parent. I carry all those fictional stories with me, and if I am only willing to invite them along with me if they bring something enriching or inspiring with them these days. 


But now, with this great list you've gave me, I can have my cake and eat it too- your list of books with depth that are not dark or disturbing. I thought I'd compile your suggestions in case anyone else is looking for a good read that without depressing side effects:


The School of Essential Ingredients: Erica Bauermeister
See You in a Hundred Years: Logan Ward
Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers
All That Matters: by Wayson Choi
Water for Elephants: Sarah Gruen
Sisters in the Wilderness: Charlotte Gray
Trauma Farm: by Brian Brett
The Dirty Life: Kristan Kimball
The Adventures of a Woman Homesteader: Susanne E George
The Forest Lover: Susan Vreeland
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: Alan Bradley
The Time Traveler Wife: by Audry Niffenegger
The Girls:  by Lori Lansen
The People of the Book: by Geraldine Brooks
We Took to the Woods: Louise Dickinson Rich


happy reading friends!