Designer's note

A silent protest

Recently, across from the Miners Bay mall and in front of the library trees were cut down and blackberry bushes were ripped out of the ground. Now when we sit with our coffee we can see the sea.
but at what cost?....
Silently a knitter has protested. She (he) declared that the cost is too great.
Last night, when I attended the Mayne Island Trincomali Community Art Council group show, I found this...

No, it is not my work.

The group show runs the entire month of July. View it during library hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 3 pm.

*Please excuse me. In this post, I referred to the Mayne Island reading centre as the "library". It is a reading centre not a library - to be accurate. Although, some Mayne Islanders, like myself, affectionately refer to it as a library.

What's the difference?

Good question. I will see if I can find an answer.

Further, I did a google search...because as you know, you can learn everything you need to know on google...and learned the difference. This difference can be summed up in one word: librarian. The Mayne Island reading centre doesn't employ anyone with this title. Instead what you will find are people like myself. Volunteers who work one or two shifts a month. These shifts are two hour long. So please be kind to us: we aren't trained professionals but we do have big hearts. : )

Happy Canada Day

Canada Day has dawned sunny and bright on the bonnie isle of Mayne. Later today, just before noon, we Mayne Islanders will meet at Dinner Bay Park. You are invited to join us there. We will proudly sing of our love for our island and for our Canada.
In the shelter, there will be a fund raiser for Rest Q Animal Sanctuary http://www.restqsanctuary.org/About.html

Last night I watched Paul Gross' Passchendaele http://www.passchendaelethemovie.com/

Learn about the words we will sing: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/ceem-cced/symbl/anthem-eng.cfm#a0

Hug a Canadian
Leanne

This month's Authors' Den pick

Do you remember when I use to report on my stories from Authors' Den?
No?
Well, what I did was this...
I posted stories on my authors' den web site: www.authorsden/leannedyck.com
You logged on to read what interested you.
There is a counter on that site and it recorded the number of unique visitors each piece received.
I then read these stats. I posted the story which received the most hits here.
It's been a long time since I did this.
On this site I posted the entire first chapter of Maynely a Mystery. It is not surprising, that this body of writing has received a lot of hits.
However, let's focus on the short story that received the most hits.
It was: A Crush.
I offer it for your reading pleasure.

When she looked at him, her heart melted. A simple greeting or a smile was all that was required to send her swooning. Her heart beat faster and still faster until it jumped from her chest to her throat. Her heart continued its journey as it flew out of her mouth and spun around three times in mid air finally landing back in her throat. Her face blushed bright red as she stuttered and stammered nonsensically. At night, she fell asleep arms wrapped tightly around what others saw as her pillow but what she knew was his chest. During the day between school and household tasks her lips smacked loudly against her palm as she practiced kissing him.
She met with other girls who shared her obsession. They discussed his broad shoulders, his deep blue eyes and his kissable lips.
"He's so cute!" They giggled.

(c) ldyck 2009