Pages and Projects {The Edge of EveryWhen}

June. It’s June! It’s been an up-and-down year on many levels. It really has. Yet, May flew right by for us. This becomes a busy season on our farm. June means green-wheat-changing-golden and “the time of reaping upon the earth.” A.K.A harvest in Kansas! 🙂 I’m looking forward to taking photos during wheat harvest this year. Hopefully, this will happen. It gets busy and I don’t always have time or take time to pick up my camera the way I’d really like to.

It’s fun to look back. This post has pages and projects I was reading/doing a couple of years ago!

I have a few finished dishcloths tucked onto my bookshelves. As I worked in the ends and deemed them complete, this is where they landed!

Linking up with Ginny and Frontier Dreams!

I have two sets of needles, both bearing dishcloths. One stays beside my desk and I add rows as I watch Tuesday Teachings in hope*writers or other video courses. The other one finds residence in my living room or bag as I head out the door.

I often find myself choosing yarn color according to the seasons. Bright colors for summer. Warm or darks in winter. Stripes and pastels for spring.

Here are some of the pages I’ve been recently turning. Two are review copies from B&H/Lifeway.

The Edge of EveryWhen is a super fun Kid Lit book. Are you an Instagram comrade of mine? If so, you may have seen this book in my IG stories. I truly enjoy sharing books in my stories quite often. I still love children’s picturebooks and a good series of KidLit.

The Edge of EveryWhen is told with a fun twist. Part of the story is told from the perspective of a mysterious book found in Piper and Phoenix’s aunt’s library.

How fun is that?! A book told by a book! 🙂

This book is an engaging journey teaching truth, compassion, kindness, transformation, and the importance of story.

If you like books and libraries, personable characters, a good plot twist, and a story to keep you turning until the end, do check this one out. It would be a fun read-aloud for mamas and kiddos!

I read this copy of I Have a Dream in May. It was very interesting and has given me much to muse on. I’m interested in reading the autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. I’ve seen on Amazon. Do you have any recommendations? I’d love to hear if you’ve read a biography or title about Martin Luther King Jr. and his work.

I ordered Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison and I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown. I want to hear other people’s stories and pay attention to how our actions cause others to feel. Do you have any other recommendations?

I don’t know exactly what other people and ethnics experience or face. I do know what it feels like to be made to feel less than, unseen, a misfit, or unimportant. I know what it is to be pushed around or accused. No, not to the depths or levels many have endured. Not even close. Yet enough to know we need to listen, offer compassion, and seek to grow in empathy and change.

Hidden Figures is a movie I really like. Every time I watch it I am astonished at the treatment the women received simply because of their skin color and gender. Brilliant women. Hardworking women.

Here’s a beautiful gift book for mamas. It’s my other review from B&H/Lifeway. A Mother’s Love from the (in)courage community. It’s divided into five categories. Each one holds short devotionals, Scripture, and Reflection journaling pages and questions. It offers words to muse on and encourage, especially when time may not be available in extra abundance.

The artwork is delightful!

A Mother’s Love is a perfect giftbook. For your friends or daughters. OR for yourself!!!
If you’re a mother looking for good words in shorter format and easy to pick-up style, this book fits the description!

I appreciate the encouragement and voices in the (in)courage community. Their website was one of the first places I read online years and years ago. 🙂 Many of the authors and books on my shelves are from women who were part of the (in)courage community. Some still are. Some have followed pathways to other places.

Peek inside!!!

Another book I was quite excited to read in May!

Of Literature & Lattes by Katherine Reay. I attended an online launch party for the book’s release and was delighted to win a signed copy of the book. {I have a small collection of signed books and they make me happy.}

I have all of Katherine Reay’s novels on my bookshelf. Her writing and the lessons in the books are stories I really love. I’ve re-read Lizzy and Jane and plan to re-read them all at some point. {Dyed-in-the-wool Readers…we all know how those TBR{to-be-read} stacks are, along with the RIA{read-it-again} stack!!!}

I started reading Orbiting the Giant Hairball. I’m not even a quarter of the way in, but it’s fun and fascinating! Gordon MacKenzie takes a look at maintaining creativity and fighting off the force of getting sucked into mediocrity. There’s definitely nothing boring or mediocre about the way the book and pages are put together. It contains fun prints and fonts, artwork in the pages and along the edges, and a good sense of style and humor.

I haven’t begun reading Good Man yet, but I have a copy of it from BakerBooks to review. I look forward to reading it. Sally Clarkson’s books are among my favorites and this book is authored by her son, Nathan. I read their book, Different, written together, and it was insightful and eye-opening. Sally and Nathan also have an adorable children’s book about the importance of who you are and how God created you.

I’ve been musing about the books I’m drawn to.

I find a few topics/genres/classifications/styles/themes among the books I read and enjoy filling my bookshelves with.

Here’s a list I made of what I found…….

Home.
Happiness.
Creativity.
Writing.
Enneagram.
Handlettering.
Memoir.
Business/Leadership.
Growing as a woman.
Friendship and Relationships.
Marriage.
Devotionals.
Giving.
Bible study books.
Becoming More Like Jesus.
Spiritual Formation.
Journals.
Kid Lit Filled With Personality and Fun Characters.
Children’s Picturebooks.
Beautiful Cookbooks.
Floral Arranging.
Pie.

What genres are you drawn to? I’d love to hear your list.

Parenting used to be one I read about as well, but not now with my kiddos both taller than I am! They were little in comparison when I started my blog in 2011. 🙂 Now, I find myself considering books about the process of empty nester/launching your children into meaningful lives of their own. I’d love recommendations in this category too!

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