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What book are you?

Found this quiz via Mannion aka Pip, who found it via Melissa aka Owen.

What book am I?

You're Watership Down!
by Richard Adams
Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Calling all twenty-somethings!!!

A good friend of mine is in the process of writing a book about the differing situations twenty-somethings face these days vs. previous generations. I'm simplifying her book beyond belief, but she can elaborate if she so chooses... She has asked me if I would post the following paragraph and if you young ones out there would please respond.

As young adults test the waters of relationships and delay marriage well into their 20s, relationships with friends and peer groups have become more central in their social lives than ever before. Twenty years ago, when young teens looked into the future, they saw themselves at age 25 with a wife or husband, sitting around the dinner table, after a day of work or child care. Today, those teens more often see themselves sitting in a café with friends. Friends, not wives or husbands, are now the central relationships of early adulthood…. Friends are often young adults’ lifeline, their sounding board, their judge and jury. They discuss their toils and problems at work. The complain about their bosses. They fill in each other about their day, how their workout is going (or not).  They plan their weekends and their lives. In other words, they’re having the same conversation with friends that was once the domain of spouses. …It could be said in fact that the nuclear family is losing its function, replaced by friends.

She does not so much want to confirm or dispel the idea in the paragraph, but just wants to get some insights on it, your reaction to it, and some examples from your own life of how you rely on friends or how friends play a role in your lives. She is looking for some real-life voices.

Feel free to direct this to anyone you know who might apply and who might want to add their input.

Thanks!

A Very Happy Young Poet

We have been under a viral haze for about the past two weeks. My youngest lamblet got it first, passed it on to my oldest lamblet and to me. Luckily my older, more experience immune system has allowed me to continue in a more or less normal fashion. Grizzled has so far managed to circumvent it altogether. He's been saying he has to work late, but frankly, I think he's just avoiding the plague.

Today as my oldest lamblet was spending yet another day on *couch lock-down*, she did get some good news. Her poetry book arrived!

Last year certain grades in my daughter's school participated in the Pine Tree Press poetry contest. My daughter's class had to write a poem using as many prepositions as possible, but subject matter could be of their choosing. She was notified at the beginning of this school year that her poem was indeed one of the poems chosen and would be published with other student from around the country. All poems chosen would be published together and each participating school would get a copy for their library. Parents were allowed to order of a copy of their own which of course we did and that is what arrived today. I think the viral haze is lifting. :)

Here is her poem:

“Mr. Opossum"

 
In the meadow the fresh air shall billow,
Below flowers will blossom,
Past the oak and the willow,
Between our feet we find Mr. Opossum,
Through the shrubs he scurries off,
In back of me,
Toward a moth,
Without a stop he again scurries off,
According to me he has allergies,
In addition to that he has a cough,
Let’s pray he doesn’t have fleas!

                                  -CL