Reading and Library Promotion: Tangram and Books for Free

To kick off 2020, we have set up a reading and library promotions activity for the community. Books for Free and a Tangram play and display activity.

We get book donations from many agencies and generous people. We first offer these books to the community for free. Then we send them off to recipients far and wide!

Grant Snider's comic is inspiring. He has one made for New Year's where tangram puzzles were used to suggest possibilities, wonderment and trust to processes. Using it as base for the reading promotion, I set up envelopes for Tangram puzzles that anyone from the community can make. 

It is easy to do. Simply follow the Imagine - Play - Wonder structure ( a format I use for my workshops) and anyone can create art, stories and ideas! It is also a Makerspace activity if you think about it. And for students who need a brain break, they can play on the puzzles and learn at the same time.

To complete the display, I bring out books about puzzles and spatial thinking. I am positive that these books will be borrowed. Well, 4 out of 10 is the standard ratio.

Looking Back and Looking Ahead (1 of 2)

Prayer for the New Year

New Year’s Prayer for the Family

God, thank you for a new year. May everyone in our family be willing to begin anew with a clean slate. We know that you are always ready to forgive us. Help us to be willing to forgive ourselves and to forgive one another.

As we begin a new year, remind us of our truest values and our deepest desires. Help us to live in the goodness that comes from doing what you want us to do. Help us to put aside anxiety about the future and the past, so that we might live in peace with you now, one day at a time.

Amen.

Prayer For the First Day of the Year

PRAYER FOR THE FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR

O God, ever blessed and eternal

I THANK you that today you have

Allowed me to begin a new year.

Here in your presence I make my

Resolutions for the days to come.

I resolve:

To be faithful and true to those who love me

And loyal to those who are my friends,

So that I may never bring distress to their hearts

To live in forgiveness and in kindness,

That I may go about doing good.

To live in goodness and purity

That I may resist temptation and

May be a strength to others who are tempted.

To live in sympathy and gentleness,

That I may bring comfort to the

Sorrowing, and understanding to the perplexed.

To live in serenity and self-control,

That no anger and no passion may

Disturb my own face and the

Peace of others.

To live in full obedience to you and

In your perfect love, that in doing

Your will I may find peace.

O God, My Father, grant me the

Strength to keep these resolutions

All this year through Jesus Christ

Our Lord.  AMEN.

2014 Family Selfie/Groupie: A Happy New Year To All!

 

From my family to yours, a blessed 2014 ahead! Our hearts are filled with hope and gratitude. May this grace sustain us all through the year.

Prayer for the 1st Day of the Year

PRAYER FOR THE FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR

O God, ever blessed and eternal

I THANK you that today you have

Allowed me to begin a new year.

Here in your presence I make my

Resolutions for the days to come.

I resolve:

To be faithful and true to those who love me

And loyal to those who are my friends,

So that I may never bring distress to their hearts

To live in forgiveness and in kindness,

That I may go about doing good.

To live in goodness and purity

That I may resist temptation and

May be a strength to others who are tempted.

To live in sympathy and gentleness,

That I may bring comfort to the

Sorrowing, and understanding to the perplexed.

To live in serenity and self-control,

That no anger and no passion may

Disturb my own face and the

Peace of others.

To live in full obedience to you and

In your perfect love, that in doing

Your will I may find peace.

O God, My Father, grant me the

Strength to keep these resolutions

All this year through Jesus Christ

Our Lord.  AMEN.

2013 New Year Greeting

Happy New Year! From my family to yours, here's wishing all of you a grace-filled and blessed 2013!