Two more
libraries for the life list! That brings me to sixty-four. Today I visited the Carrollton Public Library At Josey Ranch Lake. My
worm presentation has been changed to this location, and I wanted to check it out in advance. The library has a
virtual tour online. It's embarrassing to know so little about the next major suburb one giant step over on the tollroad. The library is connected to a senior center, looks out on a lake with a loop trail, adjoins a park and an athletic complex, and has a natural plant area.
It was exciting to see the Summer Reading Program poster with the worm event listed, and to see the Carrollton
Leisure Connections catalog:
I'm planning to make a soft sculpture Can'O'Worms for the
event, sort of a
Claes Oldenberg meets Popeye visual aid. Picked up the "wine" RIT dye and rubber bands at Albertsons. Heading to the upstairs linen closet to find a well-aged white bed sheet for dyeing.
Walking the library lake 6.4 mile loop trail included views of swans, ducks, red-winged blackbirds, white egret, little blue heron, and green heron, all at no extra charge.
And the other life list library? My visit to the U.S. Institute for Peace include a quick walk through the Ron Silver Library. Ron Silver did not mean anything to my son/tour guide. I had a vague idea
Ron Silver was an actor or a political activist. As it turns out, Silver was both. In 1989, he co-founded the non-partisan social and political advocacy group
Creative Coalition with colleagues including Alec Baldwin, Christopher Reeve, and Susan Sarandon. I still don't know how the library came to be named for him.
As I read about the
USIP's library, I learned about a fascinating woman,
Jeannette Rankin. The library's program is named for this pacifist, the f
irst woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
You can't shake hands with a fistful of spinach.
Popeye
You can't shake hands with a can of worms.
© 2011 Nancy L. Ruder
3 comments:
I dig that poster!
Glad to hear of the Ron Silver library.
Ron Silver was on the West Wing for a couple of years. You can't shake hands with a worm, either.
I had Ron Silver mixed up with the Miles Silverberg character on Murphy Brown plus a guy I went to college with, although I shouldn't end a sentence with "with".
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