[MOSAIC] Calkins

[Beverlee Paul]

Pat - Certainly you may do whatever you wish with my words.  I'm not a 
closet Lucy-fan at all!!  Thanks for your kind words.  Bev


Bev,
This is so awesome.  True friendships hard to find. People you can
trust and grow with. I realize as I read your words that I feel this
way about a few authors and also about two listserv groups I have been
with for years.  With or without your name, as you would like, I would
certainly like to share it with my other listserv friends.  Let me
know. I know they would love to hear you speak of their friend in such
a loving way.
Pat K



On Sep 1, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Beverlee Paul wrote:

 > Well, I certainly cannot speak of either experience because I never
 > leave Nebraska, but . . . I cannot miss the opportunity to speak of my
 > friend, Lucy Calkins.  Lucy and I first met, so to speak, when I read
 > Lessons from a Child many years ago and our friendship deepened with
 > Living Between the Lines.  Our friendship has continued through the
 > years through her other works and I've recently met her on DVD.
 >
 > When I open a book of Lucy's, I'm transported to another time and
 > place.  She and I pull together our leather chairs and spread an old
 > well-worn down comforter over us both.  We draw up our feet so we can
 > sit Kriss-Kross Applesauce until one of us becomes so inspired that we
 > throw off the comforter to lean forward to speak our well-chosen words
 > with conviction.  We laugh a lot; we cry a little.  We affirm, we
 > argue, we articulate the thoughts we never even knew we had.  We pull
 > out our family photos.  We tell our stories late into the night.  We
 > drink hot chocolate in huge, cracked mugs and turn up James Taylor as
 > loud as we can.  Sometimes I nap a minute--and when I awake, we take
 > up right where we left off.  We share our children, almost a thousand
 > of mine now, and tens of thousands of hers.  We speak of our beliefs
 > eloquently and shout our outrage at the attempts to dumb down our
 > professional roles.  But nothing can spoil the purity of her vision
 > and we once again arrive at shared optimism and excitement for the
 > morrow.
 >
 > So, my friend Lucy, whom I will never meet, has changed my life in
 > ways few could only hope.  She's been my trusted friend and confidant
 > for years.  To quote a cheesy movie, Lucy "had me from hello" when she
 > first taught me the lessons from a child.
 >
 > How could you miss meeting Lucy?  Go.
 >
 > Bev
 >
 >
 > Lucy Calkins is a dynamic speaker and  unbelievably talented author
 > who can
 > appeal to ANYONE's mind. She is funny,  smart, experienced, and she
 > uses all of her
 > life experiences and puts them  simply into teaching form. The best of
 > the
 > best. If you get a chance to hear  her, she could very well change
 > your teaching
 > life.
 >

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