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1. Spinning around again

Rilla, as you know, is eight years old, which means it’s her turn for the family tradition called Daddy Reads Mommy’s Martha Books to You. Which for all four of my daughters now has meant, as sure as the sun will rise, a sudden burning need to learn how to spin. I understand; the passion gripped me, too, when I was writing those books. I never did score myself a spinning wheel (it’s on the Someday list) but I had to have a drop spindle so I could know what it felt like to fumble along like beginner Martha. She got good at it way faster than I did, though. In my defense, she had Auld Mary for a teacher, whereas I? Didn’t even have YouTube yet. It was 1997, which means the internet helpfully told me what books to read.

Now this ladyher I could have learned from.

How to Spin Yarn Using a Drop Spindle.

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2. Poetry Friday: A late entry

It's been a busy week, full of lots of interesting graphic novel discussion--graphic novels and literacy, graphic novels and storytelling, graphic novels and collaboration.

So, imagine my surprise when I found "The Poem as Comic Strip" series at PoetryFoundation.org. As you know, I'm fond of the poetry finder at PoetryFoundation, but I had never stumbled across this series. Today I did when studying poems concerning snow. (We've been under the white stuff for two months now and it's only January 25!)

Take a look at the first two stanzas of Kenneth Patchen's "The Snow is Deep on the Ground":

The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.

This is a good world.
The war has failed.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the snow waits where love is.

read the rest of the poem here
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Beautiful, no?

Now, take a look at the same poem with comics by Ron Rege, Jr. (Scroll down and click on slide show.)

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