Food For Thought

Homemade Cookies Day – October 1 “OCD- Obsessive Cookie Disorder” – Cookie Monster “A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” – Barbara Johnson “I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.” – Dolly Parton International Day of Non-Violence – October 2 “Non-violence is the summit of bravery.” – Mahatma Gandhi “In spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “Nonviolence doesn’t always work – but violence never does.” – Madge Micheels-Cyrus World Teacher Day – October 5 “It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” – Michael Morpurgo “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” – Josef Albers “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox Eleanor Roosevelt born – October 11, 1884 “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss event; small minds discuss people.” – E. Roosevelt “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” – ER “In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.” – ER Farmer’s Day – October 12 “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower “My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.” – Brenda Schoepp “Bailing twine turns every farmer into MacGyver.”

Book Review

The Safekeep is in some ways a historical novel–in other ways, and more important ways, an exploration of the kind of damage that wartime experiences can have on those who were children at the time.

Food For Thought

Labor Day – September 1
“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
“Labor Day is a time to honor the legacy of the labor movement and the ongoing pursuit of social and economic justice.” – Nestasia
National Grandparents Day September 7
“Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.”
– Richard Garnett
“One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.”
– Joy Hargrove
“Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.”
– Helen Thompson
“You will never look back on life and think ‘I’ve spent too much time with my grandchildren.’” – Unknown