Berne Library Notes for Wednesday, November 24, 2021
— Photo from Kathy Stempel
Comic author and illustrator, Ira Marcks, at center, in back, stands with kids who are displaying their work after attending his Berne Library workshop on creating comics.
— Photo from Kathy Stempel
At a Berne Library workshop, kids under the tutelage of comic author and illustrator, Ira Marcks, try their hand at drawing cartoon characters.
“Rock and Vole,” written and illustrated by Jennifer Sattler: a view. Fall in love with Vole. Her cute-as-pigtails facial expressions, her Harry Potter glasses, and her bigger-than-moon adventure plan outside her regular day-to-day.
Vole stretches, exercises for seven minutes, enjoys snack time of pumpernickel bread, stinky cheese and 12 raisins. Then Vole comfortably squinches down on her bed’s left side for shuteye. Every single day, after day, after day.
Follow along as Vole hatches her adventure, which goes along perfectly until —
Well, you’ll just have to borrow the book and find out. You’ll be sweetly rewarded and want to read it again and again and again.
“Check your pulse”
Those Word of the Month Club enthusiasts are blasting off for one outrageous December. Oh, wait, that was November. Have you brewed up any outrageous new learning projects?
Step in and have a peek at the word warriors and their December pick:
Cindy Leigh: “I like the idea of using a quote for December. It was an outrageous good time searching for them.”
Roxanne: “I know, right? Coming up with favorites was challenging. But, guess what?”
Eric, Charlotte, Devon, and Guinevere all snapped their heads toward Roxanne.
“I don’t know. What?” asked Eric.
Roxanne: “We have a three-way tie. Now, to gong in the tiebreaker.”
Charlotte: “Wait, let’s read them aloud before we pick.”
“Good idea,” said Roxanne.
“The first one’s from Arnold H. Glasow, humorist and businessman publishing his first book at age 92:
“‘A person with an hour to kill usually spends it with someone who can’t spare a minute.’
“The next two are author-unknown quotes:
“‘Never do anything you wouldn’t want to explain to the paramedics.’
“And ‘If you have nothing to be grateful for, check your pulse.’”
Everyone was chuckling and nodding approvingly.
“Ok, let’s pick our December winner,” Roxanne declared. “Hit it, Cindy Leigh.”
Cindy Leigh whaled the purple gong and Guinevere reached in the basket.
“And the winner is: ‘If you have nothing to be grateful for, check your pulse.’”
“Ok, everyone, let’s drink to that! December will be a fine month for acknowledging sparkles we encounter. Cheers!” And with a tinkling of glasses all around, December’s pick was posted on the board.
Community Conversation
Have you heard about the new Hilltown Community Conversation coming up December first? It’s an open invitation to community members to meet, explore, and share ideas about brain health and well-being with memes, quotes, and short videos to view and discuss. Sponsored by the library, facilitated by Kathy Stempel.
Listen, share, enjoy snacks, and relax in a friendly arena.
Wednesday, Dec. 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. — location to be announced. Please join us.
Mengo’s artwork
Quick reminder. Visit the library and view Sandra Mengo’s artwork occupying the south wall of the library’s community room through Nov. 30. December’s artist, Nettye Lamkay, coming soon.