A Girl Can Dream

I want this!

Dream Walk

http://www.paulahayes.com/work/album/seaside-residence/496 get credit for this photo...a scene from a dream of mine...

Book Wish

7 used from $92.80 1 collectible from $93.95 (amazon.com)
 I WISH SOME PUBLISHING COMPANY WOULD RE-PUBLISH THIS WONDERFUL CHILDREN'S BOOK

Not Justified

I really like Dallin Oaks a lot. He was president of BYU when I went there. He lived on campus and once I was walking past their home with its spacious front yard and many trees and out bounds this Great Dane dog... His head was  on the same level as mine and we looked at each other eye to eye. He was a gentle giant, harmless. He looked at me and turned and loped off. BYU President no longer live on campus but the house is still there now as a museum/visitor center.

Anyway..here is one of his quotes that I like:


"It is wrong to make statements of fact out of an evil motive,
even if the statements are true...One who focuses on faults, though they be true,
tears down a brother or sister...
Even though something is true,
 we are not justified in communicating it
to any and all persons at any and all times."

~Dallin H. Oaks (Ensign, Feb. 1987, p.69)

Paper, Pens and Pencils

Paper People

My sister Sandy and I used to say we were "Paper People"...we love paper.
I like to write on paper and I have many journals and commonplace books to prove it.
It showed in Sandy's life...she picked out the very best birthday and holiday cards to send. Her Christmas wrapping paper also was thoughtfully chosen and always very very nice. Her letters were always on cute stationery and neatly penned.

Speaking of pens....

The search for the best pen is always with me. For Christmas, I gave a set of LePens (my all time favorite writing instrument)to David and Amber and then, lo, I got a set as a gift also...from Amy and Fox.
I was thrilled when visiting Molly, that she loved the same kind of ball point pens I do..they have to have a very thin line and be a click pen...not one with a cap. Yes!
John, on the other hand, does not believe in click pens, but uses pens with a cap.

Now lets discuss pencils...
I like wooden ones, not the plastic automatic ones.
Just this morning, I found a 4B Kumon pencil on our dining room table. I wrote with it and loved the feel, the look. It was triangularly carved for ease in holding. Amy said Larissa gave them a Kumon pencil as a going away gift before they left for Japan. And when they came back,they brought some back with them. "I think we have 4 Kumon pencils floating around here", Amy said.

Amy started to tell me about stationery stores in Japan. Every little tiny town has lots of stationery stores. The Japanese love paper and pens. They had 3 stationery stores on one block in their small town!
By the way, the Japanese make LePens (I thought it was the French...ha ha)


Here is an excerpt of an article by another paper and pen lover.I can only say...ME, TOO!


The right pen and the right paper brought into conjunction, runs the unspoken thought, cannot help but result in a sudden influx of bold, brilliant and original ideas, the germ of a bestselling novel that will in its turn be inscribed in another, perhaps larger notebook more worthy of the task, in sentences as creamy and beautiful as the pages on which they are written. I am always on the hunt for the perfect notebook. Muji (the brown paperbacked ones), Field Notes (the three-packs), the ubiquitous Moleskine and, in more whimsical moments, Cavallini & Co have all come close. Which is to say, close to being the one that will become the perfect commonplace book, in which I will continue that proud Renaissance tradition of recording useful quotations, inspiring stories and intriguing snippets

from....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/29/why-i-love-stationery-pens

 Le Pens last along time. If you leave a regular marker in a drawer for years, it usually dries up. Not LePen! Its ink goes on and on and on...

 Here is our Kumon pencil. Love it!

How We Speak

This quote should guide all our communications...

"It is wrong to make statements of fact out of an evil motive, even if the statements are true...One who focuses on faults, though they be true, tears down a brother or sister...Even though something is true, we are not justified in communicating it to any and all persons at any and all times."
~Dallin Oaks  (Ensign, Feb. 1987, p.69