Week 52 - Christmas: "Wonderful"

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!”

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2020 Reading Challenge

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley

GOAL: 40 BOOKS | BOOKS READ: 40 (10,311 pages) Another unpleasant bi-product of the global pandemic was a temporary case of “reader’s block” that lasted throughout the lockdown, putting me at risk for not meeting my goal this year. I did slowly start to rally during the summer, but the return to school was accompanied by a lot of “required reading.” Finally, around Thanksgiving, I hit my stride.

• Books Borrowed from the Library: 14

• Books Set in Paris/France: 14

• Books on Scandinavian style and living: 4

• Books for Children (of all ages): 2 with lovely illustrations

• Biographies/True Stories: 14

• Books for Professional Development: 10 focusing on design thinking, innovation, distance learning, and equity

• Books I re-read this year: We Should All be Feminists, Hope is a Thing, and To Live Deliberately

• Books to re-read: The Book of Joy — I borrowed this book from the library, but it’s one I’d like to re-read and annotate next year.

• Favorites this year: Paris Was Ours, Paris on Air, and Lagom

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Capture 52 - Week 51: Frozen

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.” — Henry David Thoreau

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Capture 52 - Week 50: Kitchen Close-Up

“There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen.” – Julia Child

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December • Colors of the Month

“What is the colour of Christmas? Red? The red of the toyshops on a dark winter’s afternoon, Of Father Christmas? Or green? Green of holly and spruce and mistletoe in the house, dark shadow of summer in leafless winter? One might plainly add a romance of white, fields of frost and snow…” ― William Sansom

November 2020 in Pictures

“Spring's wakening bugle long is hushed; long dimm'd is Summer's splendour; October yields her easel bright to black and white November!” — James Rigg, "November," Wild Flower Lyrics and Other Poems, 1897