Sharon Creech's Blog, page 2

Switzerland and Bloomability

I'm back in Switzerlandin the land of Bloomabilityand The Unfinished Angelcoming and goingone foot hereone foot in the Statesfor the next two years.
Above photo is from one of my favorite walksthrough the village of Montagnolapast the small Herman Hesse museum.
Below is a close-up of Hesse's typewriterin that second-story window:

Something quite charmingabout that black typewriterwith white paperready to be filledwithwords. . .
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Black eyes and goosenecks . . .

I am a collectorof vases
and vases needflowers
so
I supposeI am alsoa collector of flowers.

At nightagainst a darkened window
they appearso elegantso graceful.
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Girl and Lamb

Sometimesthis happens:a girland a lamband a cast-off gownappearat the edgeof the woods.
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More Love That School . . .

So much dependsupon

eager studentsreading

and askingquestions
with suchenergy
and enthusiasmand good cheer .  . . 
Thank you, Camden schoolsfor the warmwelcome.
xxYour Author

Love Those Schools, cont. . . .

One of the bonusesof living in Maineand visiting schools in Maineis that the sceneryis alwaysmagnificentand the peopleare ultra-friendly.
Lured by Island Readers & Writersrecently I visited schools in Jonesport and Beals Island.

They've been studying The Wandererand have developed so many wonderful projects based on their year-long theme:Navigating the Storm.
Science, health, literature, art, math, musicincorporating all disciplines:Wow!
Below are some of the art projects.I wish I could have included photosof all the other projectsbut at some pointI put away my cameraand merely drooled.
(More photos at above link to Island Readers and Writers)



Tied into the above weavingare individual scrollson which students had writtenprivate messages about their own storms.

Above: flag and radio code


Left to right:Ruth Feldman*, Principal Chris Crowley (Beals Island), Me,Principal Dr. Debra Lay (Jonesport), and Jan Coates.*(* = Directors, Island Readers and Writers)
Thank you all, for an inspiring visit!
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Love That School

SometimesI visit amazing schools
where the enthusiasmand energyand good willis so high
that I swoon.

Bright and cheery welcome

students independently engaged


playing with words

celebrating books

and peopleandtheirstories.
Thank youFay Schoolfor a beauteousand deliciousvisit.
You're allamazing.
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Sun Worship

Sothe sun came out

and we turned our headstoward it

Ahhhwe saidahhh
. . .
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The Red Bench

(Click to enlarge)
so much dependsupon
a wooden benchpainted red
perched on theside
of a Swissmountain
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This bench appears in two of my books:  Bloomability and The Unfinished Angel
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Switzerland

Casa CamuzziMontagnola, Switzerland
. . . where Herman Hesse lived, wrote and painted in the latter part of his life.  Part of the house is now a museum in his honor.  He is buried in the churchyard of nearby St. Abbondio.
During the year that I wrote The Unfinished Angel, my husband and I lived in Montagnola and every day I walked along the path beside Casa Camuzzi. . . 
near the house in which we lived

overlooking this valley.
Ah, Svizzera!

Snowy Snow, Mainey Maine

And so it goesthe snowy snowof this Mainey Maine winter

Another worldthis quiet white coated world

Swirly driftsand startling sun bright. . .


. . . but there is work to be doneto clear a pathfrom here to thereand there to here


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