Summertime Reading

Summer hurries towards us as do the activities that fill the long, hot days. Library reading programs 

are one of the great ways to wile away the hours. My grandmother started the library in our town. She and my mother spent many summers encircled by a bunch of scruff-and-stuffs, listening eagerly as they read a loud.

The Travel Guide 

Stephanie Perrault 

Dishes stacked on the counter, 

laundry heaped on the floor,

Letters to write, phone calls to make, 

a thousand things and more to do, 

But that doesn’t stop her from taking 

time for a reading break. 

A break in the day to nestle

with little ones by her side; 

Throwing open windows 

on worlds big and wide. 

Worlds were anything happens

and heroes are brave and true. 

Where rivers are wild, the air is free 

and the sky eternally blue. 

Places where goodness and truth 

always take the day, 

Where little ones ramble and run,

laughing all the way. 

Where mommas and daddies their children love 

Loved they are in return; 

Lay me down to sleep at night, 

the good Lord’s care they learn. 

When at last she shuts the pages, 

they close their eyes to rest; 

Her little crew has traveled far, 

and loved Her most and best.