Dear Readers
My Garden Harvest
Dear Readers,
My 10-year-old Maya spends up to 5 hours an evening on schoolwork but mostly reading for pleasure. I often have to remind her to eat at the dinner table by saying “Stop reading!” It takes me back to my days of 4th Grade so immersed in a book, and makes me think ….. When was the last time I was “hooked on books”? Much of what I read nowadays is strategic and far from “reading for pleasure” for which I miss the feelings! My only contribution to Maya’s reading for pleasure is to follow her lead when she completes it with full understanding and satisfaction—ready to embrace the next one.
From My Garden
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
(A. C. Grayling)
Reading for pleasure is delighting and informing at the same time. It’s always our hope that we’ve done a bit of that with each issue.
Summer is upon us! What is your summer reading list?
Cheers,
Keiko Honda, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief Chair, Community Engagement Committee
My summer includes the June ‘Ageless Pursuits’ at UBC, for a week or more of classes. I just finished the Renaissance Art and Italian painters for a most enjoyable week of immersion as a beginning of summer treat, a chance to learn about something new! Barb