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Category: Writing
What’s New… July 2024
Since the last newsletter I have been on the road to library conferences, hiking, writing poetry, and working on a variety of research and writing projects…. JUST RELEASED: lighthouses of midcoast maine & tales of the folk who lived there We brainstormed this book while on a 2023 lighthouse cruise out of Bar Harbor, Maine.…
Rural Librarianship Release!
NEW RELEASE! Rural Librarianship: From Surviving to Thriving. Information Leadership for the 21st Century. Tada! After four years of post-graduate work experience, reading and research, constant reflection, PLUS one year of intensive writing, my book on rural librarianship is finally published! Thanks to all who encouraged me and waited patiently to receive this book. Available…
Fresh New Look
Welcome to the new website for Faith Lane Books, the Fresh Librarian, The Poet Genealogist, and The Lane Farm. I hope you enter with an open heart and leave refreshed.
Scattered Thoughts
Poetry, Writing, Permaculture, Herbal Medicine, Wellness, Genealogy, Librarianship, Informarianship
Questions of 2021
Questions people have often asked us this year. Are you still hiking? Will you still hike the Appalachian Trail? What have you been doing in 2020/2021? When are you/Are you coming back to Dorcas Library? Here are answers: Yes. We are still hiking, albeit in somewhat reduced capacity. More on this in a later post.…
an artist’s statement
look up look deep within look underneath linger awhile being minimal nothing is about us really we are dancing motes winding our way down a shaft of sunlight singing
not psychotic break
not psychotic break but midlife walkabout for two i want to go on a walking retreat with you i want to lose the false masks the false stress the false problems i want to feel my body working harder than it’s ever done i want to challenge my body, my emotions, and my brain i…
Thoughts About Blogging
When we began this journey in April 2019, I began to make notes about our training hikes, about our physical-mental-emotional health concerns, about books and resources we were studying, and about equipment selections we were exploring. I called these notes “Essay Germs.” While my goal is to blog at least weekly, I have been more…
Reflection #5: Thoughts on Infinite Learning, Libraries as Classrooms, & Librarians as Teachers
I. in infancy we are fearless learning machines playful fluid learning minds ever curious ever seeking ever growing with fertile ground and nurturing we grow and thrive in hard-packed soil with hard-boiled souls we learn to survive in either case as we age, we slow ‘til we assume we know all there…
A Favorite Quotation
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see…